NLU Jodhpur second year student Vatsal Vasudev wins a place among the top three out of 230 entries from colleges across 70 countries that participated in a speech writing contest. The contest was organised by the United Nations Academic Impact in association with Brookings Institution. The challenge was to write a speech for the UN secretary general.

“The message is clear: no country is completely immune from the consequences of ills prevalent in other countries. In such a scenario, we must realize that not just for the sake of upholding human values, but also for the maintenance of socio-economic equilibrium in the world do we need to begin thinking of the earth as a composite whole,” he wrote.

Vasudev won a trip to New York to meet the UN secretary general and the leadership of the Brookings institution.

“I will make the U.N. chief aware of the problems existing around me,” he says of his plans of the trip adding that he would also seek suggestions and approval for a journalism-activism campaign that he envisions with a couple of friends from college. [The Hindu][Speech]