The second edition of the Dr Sandip Chatterjee Memorial Debate was held on Aug 22, 2026 at Calcutta Club.
The Motion “Indians work best as Immigrants” was debated fiercely with dollops of humour, poetry, statistics, theories and banter thrown in.

Proposing the Motion were Ret’d Justice Subrata Talukdar, Mr Debdeepta Roy, Ms Supriya Newar and Dr Kaushik Ghosh.
Those in the Opposition included Prof Krishna Sen, Prof Sumantra Bose, Ms Moyuree Mukherjee and IBSA’s very own past President Mr Abhrajit Mitra.

Organised jointly by IBSA and Calcutta Debating Circle with the support of Carring Minds, the Debate was Co-Chaired by Dr Kunal Sarkar and Mr Pradeep Gooptu. Present on this occasion was the family of late Dr Sandip Chatterjee. Dr Uttara Chatterjee handed out Citations of Excellence to three outstanding school debaters.