BDP
 |
 |
“This compendious platform for debate forms a whirlwind of ideas and views. Speakers are shaken not stirred by irreverent audiences. A bit of ‘hold on tight’ experience where no one gets their own way.” - Tony McGuirk, Chairman, BDP |
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University