Motions

Open Grand Finals

  • 1
    This House, as the feminist movement, supports mourning rituals for miscarriages
  • 2
    This House believes that it is legitimate for European states to sponsor natalism
  • 3
    This House, as the feminist movement, would treat motherhood as an interruption in artistic creation instead of as an impetus to it
  • Open Semi-Finals

  • 1
    This House believes that Murugan's defense of his son's marriage is legitimate
  • 2
    This House supports the performance of exaggerated masculinity by Dalit men in public spaces
  • 3
    Assuming only one can be done, this House believes that the Indian state should give reservations to Brahmins for sewage cleaning jobs as opposed to its complete mechanisation (Time Set: Pre-2014)
  • Novice Finals

  • 1
    THO the narrative that parents should constantly prioritise the interests of their children over their own
  • 2
    TH (as a low income parent in India) W raise their child to believe in determinism over free will
  • 3
    THW choose job A over job B
  • Pre-Semi Finals

  • 1
    This House believes that advocacy for same-sex marriages in the ongoing marriage case should centre around using the special marriage act rather than through expanding religious personal laws
  • 2
    This House prefers a JDAI-model over restorative justice-model when dealing juvenile offenders convicted of heinous crimes
  • 3
    This House opposes Amul's entry in Karnataka
  • Round 5

  • 1
    This House prefers a characterisation of love as citational rather than as inventive
  • 2
    This House prefers Derrida's characterisation of friendship over Blanchot's
  • 3
    This House opposes the equation of friendship with emotional labour
  • Round 4

  • 1
    This House, as the woman, will practise the sick-woman theory.
  • 2
    In Western liberal democracies that are secular and have public universal healthcare, this House believes that it is legitimate for the state to terminate the life of a person who is "brain dead" but not "clinically dead"
  • 3
    This House believes that it is ethically legitimate for consenting adults to indulge in voluntary cannibalism (Cannibalism here does not involve the death of people undertaking it. Therefore, this can look like eating fat, tissues, or appendages like toes, such that the people indulging in it don't die)
  • Round 3

  • 1
    This House prefers a conceptualisation of management of power in a global framework along the lines of Collective Security over Collective Defence
  • 2
    This House believes that it is in the interest of Iraq to abolish the Muhasasa system
  • 3
    This House, as an aspiring developing nation with neutral neighbours, would prefer to live under an intergovernmentalist structure over a supranational body (Clarification: "neutral neighbours" here characterises neighbouring countries that are neither friendly nor hostile)
  • Round 2

  • 1
    This House, as a lover who tries to be ethical in life, will not use gifting as a love-language
  • 2
    This House believes that individuals should have legal rights over objects that constitute their personhood
  • 3
    This House supports the drawing of graffitis on historically significant monuments
  • Round 1

  • 1
    Time Set: Pre-2014 This House believes that Marxist political parties in India should abandon their characteristic insignia of the red hammer and sickle
  • 2
    This House believes that it is morally legitimate to not put in effort to revive dying art forms
  • 3
    In the case of women artists, this House regrets the overbearing influence of the artist's suffering to understand their art and artistic process