“Oxford Union debate: Indian law student who survived 26/11 scare demolishes Pakistan”, India Today, December 24, 2025
“A massive controversy was triggered after the Pakistani Oxford Union president Moosa Harraj staged a stunt and allowed Pakistan to claim victory in a debate that was never meant to be conducted. The motion: This House believes that India’s policy towards Pakistan is a populist strategy sold as security policy. However, a separate debate on the very same motion took place in November between Oxford University students and an Indian pursuing law demolished the Pakistani side, led by Harraj himself. The star of the show was Mumbai-born Viraansh Bhanushali.
“We have learnt it the hard way, you cannot shame a state that has no shame,” said Bhanushali of Pakistan, the historical sponsor of terror. Though the debate was held around the time the controversy erupted over the sabotaged event in November, the video has only been uploaded now. Several clips of Bhanushali’s hard-hitting statements have gone viral now.
Bhanushali, a law student at Oxford University, spoke at the Oxford Union Debate just a day after November 26 — a date he, like 1.4 billion Indians, cannot forget. He, like millions of Mumbaikars, lived through the terror of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, in which 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists from Pakistan attacked a dozen locations in the financial capital of India, killing over 250 people…..”
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