India, Feb. 23 -- Three minutes was all it took for each participant to impress the judges in a special inter-collegiate elocution event on Saturday. The competition saw participants from various colleges across the state assemble at the Wadala campus of the Vidyalankar Dnyanapeeth Trust (VDT), for the final leg of the third edition of the Dr Sanjeewani Deshpande Memorial Elocution Competition, an inter-collegiate event organised by the Vidyalankar Group of Educational Institutes. Dr Deshpande was a founder and chairperson of VDT from 2005 to 2016.

"I spoke on 'Simplicity' because it is lost in our generation. We are attracted to material things all the time, so I tried to make it personal by connecting my speech to my grandmother, who i...