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Taivas · since 2019 · Grades 1 to 12

A coach, a small room and a stage.

Taivas teaches debate, public speaking and AI to school students. Live, in batches of 10, online and at our centres, coached by people who compete.

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Three Taivas coaches on a balcony at IIT Delhi
The coaching team at IIT Delhi, campus bootcamp 2026
students trained
25,000+students trained
partner schools
50+partner schools
IIT & university campuses
7IIT & university campuses
coaches on national circuits
50+coaches on national circuits
tournaments held
120+tournaments held
the year it started
2019the year it started

Where Taivas students have gone

Stanford breaksOxford WSDCHarvard Summer DebateISDS camp selections

The story, year by year

Taivas is Finnish for sky. It started in 2019 as one mentoring session, run by Tatsam Lamba. This is what happened next.

A Taivas coach mid-explanation with a standing group of students
A Taivas coach teaching a class at a centre

  1. 2019

    A single session

    Tatsam Lamba begins mentoring students in debate and public speaking out of pure passion. By year end, students are winning local competitions.

  2. 2020

    Word of mouth

    Teams begin competing at regional and state tournaments. The vision for a larger platform takes shape.

  3. 2021

    Classes move online

    With schools closed through COVID, Taivas takes its classes online, so students can keep debating in live batches with a coach from home.

  4. 2022

    Taivas Debate Club

    Officially launched. In six months: 20+ champion teams, 400+ students, growing recognition.

  5. 2023

    Into schools

    Taivas begins running debate and public speaking programmes with partner schools across Delhi NCR and North India. Over 1,000 students coached.

  6. 2024

    Every major format

    3,000+ students trained across 20+ schools and institutions, with specialised programmes for Cambridge, Oxford and WSDC formats.

  7. 2026

    Campuses and a national championship

    Campus bootcamps at six universities, AI Labs by Taivas, and a national speech and debate championship for school students.

Why Taivas exists

Most students have plenty to say. Very few are ever taught how to say it.

School gives a child one chance a year to stand up and speak, usually in front of forty classmates, usually without a coach. Taivas started in 2019 as one mentoring session to change that, and it is still the point: make world-class debate and public speaking training available to every student in India, not only the ones at schools with a debating tradition.

Our mission
Give every school student in India a coach, a small room and a stage, so they learn to speak with confidence and think with clarity.
What we want for your child
To hold a room. To think while being challenged. And to be wrong well, which is where the real learning starts.

How we teach

Four things stay the same in every Taivas programme, online or in person.

  1. Every child speaks in every class

    Batches are capped at ten. In a room that small nobody can hide, and nobody has to wait a month for their turn.

  2. Coaches who compete

    Our coaches debate on national circuits themselves. They teach rebuttal the way they use it, not from a textbook.

  3. A stage every term

    In-class rounds, a showcase at the end of the term, and championships for the students who want them. Competing is optional. Speaking well is not.

  4. Progress you can see

    Every class is recorded. Every term your child is scored on four skills, and you get a certificate and a written report.

Who runs Taivas

Five people run the company, with 50+ coaches on national circuits teaching the classes.

  • Tatsam Lamba

    Tatsam Lamba

    Founder · Lead Debate Coach

    National-level debater who founded Taivas in 2019 to make world-class debate training accessible to every student in India. Has personally coached hundreds of students to championship wins.

  • Samar Pratap Singh

    Samar Pratap Singh

    Regional Director · Debate Coach

    An experienced coach with a sharp analytical mind, rigorous training methodology and competitive insight in every batch, from foundational skills to advanced strategy.

  • Prithvi Raj Singh

    School Partnerships

    Drives every school partnership at Taivas, from first contact and MOU signing through to full enrolment and onboarding.

  • Sidhi Dhingra

    Admissions Counsellor

    Talks parents through the programmes, the trial class and the right batch, from first enquiry to enrolment.

  • Intkhab Raza Khan

    Bootcamp Lead

    Leads Taivas campus bootcamps, from the two days on campus to the competition and closing ceremony.

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