INDIAN DEBATING LEAGUE 2026
IDL 6.0
IDL 6.0 is the world’s largest Debating Tournament with more than 1300+ premium schools in India participating. IDL 6.0 aims to hunt the talent for the India National Debate Team for the next Sofia WSDC 2027. With nearly 5000 Speeches in a day by students across 36 States & UTs, join us to Lead the Way!
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Juniors: 3rd to 5th
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Middle: 6th to 8th
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Seniors: 9th to 12th
STATE TEAM SELECTION
Theme: Remembered India
India's identity is shaped by memory, inherited stories of empire, partition, and freedom struggles passed down through textbooks and families. This lens asks debaters to examine whose memory becomes official narrative, and how the past continues to justify or challenge the present.
Debate Format
One vs One Individual Matches
3 mins speeches
3 chances to qualify
INTER-STATE MATCHES
Theme: Lived India
Beyond history books, India is lived daily through diversity, in real time, by real people. This lens grounds debate in how identity is practised in everyday life, and how the gap between ideals and reality shapes who truly belongs.
Debate Format
3 vs 3 Team Matches
Asian Parliamentary Debate
Top State Teams
NATIONAL FINALS
Theme: The Imagined India
India is also rewritten by each generation, through art, technology, migration, and shifting aspiration. This lens imagines India as reshaped by youth who inherit its past without replicating it, asking what nationhood becomes through diaspora culture beyond its borders.
Debate Format
3 vs 3 Team Matches
Worlds Schools Debating
Championship
Students will be enriched with
Receive State Rankings, represent your City and State/UT
Prestigious Podium of IIT Delhi
PAN India Recognition and Certificates for LORs
Direct entry for Top 42 to National Camp Quiz
Wild Card entry in Harvard National Speech & Stanford Invitationals 2027
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