Oneiros: Talk-a-thon

The next day of Oneros was filled with joy and fun activities, so was Sophia's next event: "Talkathon"

Talkathon is the event was a name for extempore speech competition. Extempore speech is reffed to as an improv speech for which the topics were given 2 mins before the speech. The participants were excited with the topics like Liberal Education, Reservation, Right to Speech and more.

The idea of the event was inspired from the fact that whatever our mind reflects within the first few minutes of an information, forms the basis of the opinions that we have (changeable).

The criteria for judgement was:

1} confidence and fluency of the participant

2}presence of mind of participant

3}relevance to the topic

4}keep in mind the time limit given to you.

The judges for the event were Dr. Sonali Singh, Assistant Prof of Political Science, Department of Arts, MUJ and Dr. Gopalkrishnan Thirumoorthy, MUJ.

The winner of the competition was Akash Yadav, 2nd Year B. Tech, MUJ.
His presentation skills were on the point and managed to impress the judges.
We congratulate the winner.

Oneiros: Sophia Debate

The second event for the day (19th of October) was the Sophia Debate. Like other debates, Sophia debate is also a formal discussion regarding the subject matter, involving generally two or multiple people, one showing the positive side of the coin and the other showing the negative side of the coin. in the Sophia debate the topic of the debate were given to the participants on the spot. The topic was "STRIKING OUT OF IPC SECTION 497 IS MORALLY AND ETHICALLY CORRECT"

Adultery law in India is defined by the Indian Penal Code Section 497. The adultery law has come under the scanner of the judiciary several times in the past but the courts including the Supreme Court held Section 497 valid. But in the latest case, the Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra called the adultery law "anti-women" while hearing a petition that challenged Section 497 for being anti-men and giving leverage to women.

IPC Section 497 states, "Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery."

The Supreme Court on August 2, said, "The law seems to be pro-women but is anti-women in a grave ostensible way. As if with the consent of the husband, wife can be subjected to someone else's desire. That's not Indian morality."

We at Sophia believe that voicing your opinion is as meaningful as having them, and hence, like every year, Sophia debate received good number of participation.

The judges of the event were Dr. Sonali Singh, Assistant Prof. od Political Science, Department of Arts, MUJ, and Dr. Shambhu Chaudhary, Department of Chemistry, MUJ.

Nikhil Singh from LNM Institute of Technology won the Sophia debate'19.

Nikhil Singh, 2nd year, B. Tech, LNMIT, Jaipur. (Middle), along with Dr. Prof. Anthony Savari Raj, and the organizers of the event. 

Onieros: Let's Tweet

Onieros has been one of the most enjoyed fests of Manipal University Jaipur. Sophia Club, being one of the organisation committee of the fest organised three major events which will be covered through the blog.

The first event took place on the 19th of October, in the college campus itself. The event was Let's Tweet. The main idea behind the event was to ditch this screen culture and put forth our opinion offline. We tried creating an offline Twitter, upon which the participants were asked to retweet (forward their opinions on the given topic) in person.

The topic for Let's Tweet was the current famous movement #metoo.

The Me Too movement (or #MeToo movement), with a large variety of local and international alternative names, is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. The movement began to spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. The original purpose of "Me Too" as used by Tarana Burke in 2006, was to empower women through empathy, especially young and vulnerable women. In October 2017, Alyssa Milano encouraged using the phrase as a hashtag to help reveal the extent of problems with sexual harassment and assault by showing how many people have experienced these events themselves.

Enough Said about the topic, the participants had a variety of opinion regarding the movement. Some of them said that the movement was serving its purpose of empowering women, yet some disagreed saying that this movement took advantages innocent men in an unstable relationship. The judges of the event were Dr. Prof. Anthony Savari Raj, HOD, Department of Arts, and Dr. Roshni Babu, Assistant Prof. of Philosophy, Department of Arts, MUJ.

The enthusiasm of the participants led our judges speak regarding the topic as well and spread awareness. Dr. Roshni Babu took the opportunity to explain to the crowd, the impression of such movements on the social reformation of the Society and making it harmonious. Later, Dr. Sonali Singh made us acquainted with the fact that this movement has become one of India's most prominent movement of the Year 2018, and hence was recognised by women who were suffering sexual assault or were in an abusive relationship.

Tanmay Thareja bagged the prize for the same. His views were novel, and the presentation style was appealing to our judges.

Tanmay Thareja,
Winner of Let's Tweet,
1st year, B. tech, MUJ