India, May 11 -- Convo Hall in IIT Delhi, sometime around 1983. Two quizzing teams face each other in Rendezvous: St Stephen's and IIT Delhi, two of the best quiz teams in India. On the IIT Delhi side, one contestant cannot stop laughing, because the person he is trying to destroy is his old quizzing partner from St Columba's. At St Stephen's in the early 1980s, Bhaskar Chakravorti is skewering opponents with a wit so devastating that people show up to debates just to watch. A team from IIT Bombay, including Nandan Nilekani and Jairam Ramesh, sweeps college festivals in Delhi in 1974. And Suhel Seth travels all the way from Calcutta to compete in college festivals across India, because that is what you did. You crossed the country to test...