The Frank Anthony Memorial All-India Inter-School Debate

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The Frank Anthony Memorial All-India Inter-School English Debate is held in the honor of Frank Anthony.

It is among the most prestigious inter-school, annual debate competition organised by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CICSE). Participants represent their schools and are divided into two groups (Category I for students of Standards XI and XII and Category II for students of Standards IX and X). Over 1,600 schools participate in the event each year.[1][2]

The Debate competition is spread over three levels – Regional, Zonal and National Levels.

Each school sends two students from each group mentioned above. The topic is only revealed to the students an hour before the actual debate by way of opening a sealed envelope in their presence. This ensures that no pre-written material can be used in the debate. Students are expected to speak for a total time period of four minutes which is followed by two minutes of questioning and rebuttals. The students are allowed to and expected to refer to journals, magazines, and other books from the library during the one hour time to generate matter for their speaking time. No internet access or use of any electronic devices is allowed and referring to a written script during their speaking time is strictly discouraged.

The debate is only open to CISCE accredited schools.

Various years of debate[]

2009[]

Round 3 – National[]

Category 1[]
Date Host School Topic Awards
Winner Best Speaker Runner-up speaker Second runner-up speaker
20 September 2008 The Frank Anthony Public School, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi The Youth Should Aim for the stars and Forever Remain Dissatisfied La Martiniere Girls College, Lucknow Shreevar Rastogi Radhica Kaushal

2010[]

Round 3 – National[]

Category 1[]
Date Host School Topic Awards
Winner Best Speaker Runner-up speaker Second runner-up speaker
20 September 2010 St. Jude's School, Dehradun India Should Have Compulsory Military Service Don Bosco School , Park Circus Francisco Romaldo Mendes

2011[]

Round 3 – National[]

Category 2[]
Date Host School Topic Awards
Winner Best Speaker Runner-up speaker Second runner-up speaker
18 April 2011 The Shri Ram School, Aravali, Gurgaon India should abolish death penalty Bishop Cotton School, Shimla Akantuk Sharma Uday Rustagi Manisha Verma

2012[]

Round 3 – National[]

Category 2[]
Date Host School Topic Awards
Winner Best Speaker Runner-up speaker Second runner-up speaker
25 September 2013 Modern High School, Calcutta The youth of today will follow the values laid down by the older generation Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai mark spencer Vedika Walia

2013[]

Round 3 – National[]

Category 2[]
Date Host School Topic Awards
Winner Best Speaker Runner-up speaker Second runner-up speaker
25 September 2013 The Frank Anthony Public School, Lajpat Nagar - IV, New Delhi Most of the problems of students today arise from their unrestricted freedom Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai Kanishk Mittal Maahir Shah
Category 1[]
Date Host School Topic Awards
Winner Best Speaker Runner-up speaker Second runner-up speaker
25 September 2013 The Frank Anthony Public School, Lajpat Nagar - IV, New Delhi A world without discipline is lawless Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai vedika Walia Sidharth Nambiar

2014[]

Round 1 – Regional[]

The first round of debate of the year 2014 was conducted in the following schools and zones with the topic mentioned accordingly.

Region Date Host School Topic Awards
Winners First Runners-up
West 12 July 2014 Gokuldham High School, Goregaon "Can the Environment sustain the current rate of Industrialization ?" Lilavatibai Podar School, Mumbai

Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai

West 12 July 2014 Eklavya School, Ahmedabad "Can the Environment sustain the current rate of Industrialization ?" S. N. Kansagra School, Rajkot

Anandniketan, Ahmedabad

Round 2 – Zonal[]

Zone Date Host School Topic Awards
Winners First Runners-up
West 19 August 2014 Bombay Scottish School, Mahim " Can we Swap Thermal Energy for Nuclear Energy and save our environment?" S.N. Kansangra School, Rajkot None

Round 3 – National[]

Date Host School Topic Awards
Winners First Runners-up
25 September 2014 St. Gregorios High School, Chembur, Mumbai The money spent in space research should be spent in protecting the environment Campion School Mumbai , Sujay Choksey -

2015[]

Round 1 – Regional[]

Region Date Classes Host School Topic First Place
West 15 July 2015
West 15 July 2015 11th and 12th Jasudbhen ML School Khar Today friends have replaced family St Marys ICSE School Koperkhairane:

Shlok Parida & Poornima Jacob

Bombay Scottish High School
North 15 July 2015 9th and 10th La Martiniere College, Lucknow Competition leads to the death of Relationships Winners: The Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi

Jatin Jha and Oishani Chowdhary

Runners Up: Scottish High, Gurgaon
North 15 July 2015 9th and 10th Scottish High,Gurgaon Competition leads to the death of Relationships Winners: St.Stephen's School, Chandigarh

Pratham Kalra and Kavya Garg

East 15 July 2015 9th and 10th Delhi Public School, Megacity(Kolkata)

South City International School

Competition leads to the death of relationships. Winners at Delhi Public School Megacity: La Martiniere for boys, Kokata.

Vidush Sinha and Arka Chaterjee

Winners at South City International School: La Martinere for Girls

Mihikaa Goenka and Anandini Saha

Runners Up: Our Lady Queen of the Missions.

Runners Up: The Heritage School,Kolkata

South 15 July 2015 9th and 10th Competitions lead to the death of relationships. Winners: Hari Sri Vidhya Nidhi School, Thrissur (Kerala) Eleza Vinod and Sangeetha T.S

Round 2 – Zonal[]

The Level I Debate was won by The Heritage School, Kolkata. Mohit Poddar, of The Heritage School, Kolkata was adjudged the Best Speaker in the Finals while Loyola School, Jamshedpur were the runners-up. The 2015 level II debate was won by Aayush Rathod and Shrutika Mane of the Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane and was held in Dehradun. Loyola School, Jamshedpur was the 2nd Runners-Up in this category too.

2016[]

The first round of the debate in 2016 was on July 15. The National Round was held on September 25. Loyola School, Jamshedpur was the only school to have qualified for both the category 1 and Category 2 of the debate.

The National Winners for Category 2 were Nitya K Nair and Megha N Nair from L'ecole Chempaka, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Best Speaker was Nitya K Nair. The national runners-up were Adarsh Sriram and Shivali Shah from Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai.

2018[]

Round 1 – Regional[]

The first round of debate of the year 2018 was conducted in the following schools and zones with the topic mentioned accordingly.

REGION DATE HOST SCHOOL TOPIC AWARDS
WINNERS FIRST RUNNERS-UP
South 11 July, 2018 Sandeepani Vidya Niketan, Thrichur


Senior category

(11th & 12th grade)

A healthy mind in a healthy body is not being encouraged in our schools. Best Debating Team:

L'ecole Chempaka, Trivandrum


Best Speaker:

Nitya K Nair


First Runner-up Speaker: Megha N Nair

Pallikoodam

East 11 July, 2018 Welland Gouldsmith School, Kolkata


Junior category

(9th & 10th grade)

By sparing the rod, we have spoilt the child. Best Debating Team:

Don Bosco School, Siliguri


Best Speaker:

Latika Agarwal

(Nirmala Convent School)


First Runner-up Speaker:

Srijan Mitra

(Don Bosco School, Siliguri)

Loreto House, Kolkata

National Finals 2018[]

With the Diamond Jubilee of the council, the Frank Anthony memorial all India inter school debate competition's National finals were hosted in the Frank Anthony Public school, Delhi. The seniors round saw schools from all across India. The topic was "Famous dropouts are the ones that contribute most to society". The National champions were St. James' School Kolkata, represented by Rustam Biswas and Souti Mukhopadhyay. Souti Mukhopadhyay also won the award for best speaker in the finals.

2019[]

ROUND 1 – REGIONAL[]

Category (II) – Class IX & X [3]

REGION     DATE    HOST  SCHOOL   TOPIC                   AWARDS
East 19 July,2019



Saifee Golden Jubilee

English Public School,

Kolkata



Education fosters Democracy     WINNERS   FIRST RUNNERS-UP
Best Debating Team: -

Shuvajyoti Kar

and Ayantika Bag;

Saint Agnes School, Kharagpur


Best Speaker: -

Saswata Chakraborty;

Don Bosco School, Bandel


Don Bosco School, Bandel






Devyani Bhoomla;

Loreto House,Kolkata



Round 2 – Zonal


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Zone Date Host School Topic Awards
Winners First Runners-up
South 19 August 2019 Lakshmi School,Madurai  ; Category II (9th & 10th grade) "Democracy is only possible if there is responsible press" Best Speaker: Michelle Simon ,Pallikoodam, Kottayam

Best Team: Pallikoodam, Kottayam

(Michelle Simon and Thea Ann Jacob)

West 19 August 2019 Lokhandwala Foundation School, Mumbai;

Category II

"Democracy is only possible if there is a responsible press" Best Speaker:

Karna Nayak, St. Mary's School, Pune

Runner-up Speaker:

Advait Sangle, Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai, Mumbai

Best Team:

Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai (Mrigaanka Sharma and Advait Sangle)



Round 3 – National Finals[]

The National Finals for the Frank Anthony memorial all India inter school debate were held in Kolkata on 25th September 2019. The senior round had schools from all across India, such as the Shriram Aravalli School, Delhi, and the Heritage school and defending champions St. James' School from Kolkata. The topic given was "The right to dissent is an integral part of any democracy". After a fiery round of debating, St. James' School was crowned National Champions for the second year running. The Heritage School was second runner up. The Best Speaker award went to Souti Mukhopadhyay, who is the only person to have won best speaker twice consecutively in the national finals of debate's long and prestigious history.

Date Host School Topic Awards
Winners First Runners-up
25 September 2019 National English School, Kolkata "The right to dissent is an integral part of any democracy" St. James' School, Kolkata

Best speaker: 

Souti Mukhopadhyay (St. James' School, Kolkata)
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References[]

  1. ^ "Frank Anthony inter-school debate championship hosted in Panchkula". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  2. ^ "Inter-school debate". The Tribune. 25 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Frank Anthony All India Inter School Debate Competition 2019".
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