Rajesh Dhar
What year are you in and what are you studying?
3rd Year Engineering (Electrical)
What’s one thing you’re incredibly passionate about?
2D Animation
How long have you been debating for?
More than 5 years.
What led you to try debate for the first time?
I was really into making presentations for science fairs during middle school, and my science club coordinator (who was also debate club president) at that time asked me to try out debating.
What do you love most about UADS?
The people
What’s one of your favourite UADS memories?
That time when Emilie's cat Matlida sprang out of nowhere and decided to sit in my lap at 1am while I was prepping for McGoun. She accompanied me for a good while and coincidentally enough it was the good luck charm I needed to break the following day.
Using one word, what’s a topic you could forever debate about?
Myself
What’s one piece of advice you’d give to new debaters?
Transcribe and analyze high quality debate recordings
You’re held over the Darvaza gas crater and will only be safely released if you can sing all the lyrics to a song correctly. What is that song?
Amusement Park - Nier Automata
What is a favourite quote of yours and who is it by?
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same" - Colin R. Davis
If your friends had to describe you using 3 words, those words would be…
Pessimistic, Contrarian, Introverted
What’s a moment in your life that has stuck with you?
Well.... let's just say it played an instrumental role as to why I came back to debating in university.
