IDL 6.0 | India's biggest School Debate Tournament

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!

Juniors: 3rd to 5th
Middle: 6th to 8th
Seniors: 9th to 12th

Link to Register

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