The present sessions include a minor, a book session and a major.
One of the firmest pillars that YOCS stands on is this evaluation session. Judgements are made and accepted all the time. Group discussions, prose-reading sessions, debates and jam sessions also find their way into the agenda from time to time.
In such two-hour sessions over the three decades of its existence, YOCs members have traversed far and wide in their intellectual discussions. The YOCs has provided a platform of discussion of varied topics, and the work of varied individuals. Few other gatherings can claim to have hosted presentations or aroused discussion on Kautilya and Camus, on Ramesh Sippy and Ingmar Bergman, on des Cartes and Phaedrus. Not to mention more mundane matters like nuclear disarmament, neo-colonialism, and job reservations.
The members have gathered together to engage in public speaking activities, and any matter is acceptable for their speech as long as it is within the rules of decorum. To an outsider, the YOCs may seem like a gathering of blue stockings. Which would be quite far from the truth.
Members have had varied reasons for aspiring to the YOCs membership. For some it may be the desire to interact with others at a certain level of intellectual accomplishment; some may hope to develop and polish their communication skills in advance of their appearance in competitive examinations and job interviews, and some may just wind up at YOCs to spend an evening a week with friends
