The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Language (CIIL), Mysore, organised its first linguistic symposium titled ‘Bridging Research On Cognition And Speech (BROCAS)’ during 17-18 February 2018, the weekend just before the International Mother Tongue Day, to bring together budding linguists, research scholars and practitioners from qualitatively different research backgrounds to present their ongoing research in the fields related to Phonology and/or Language cognition. The symposium was a major success in harnessing talents from all parts of the country. The symposium began with a inspirational talk by the director of IITRPR Dr Sarit K Das, which was followed by 5 plenary talks, 12 oral presentations and 10 poster presentations, all of which were chosen after rigorous scrutiny. Eminent scholars such as Prof. P. K. S. Pandey delivered the plenary talks from JNU and Prof Hema Murthy from IIT-M who elaborated on prosodic phrasing and Syllable prosody in Indian languages. Further, Prof R. K. Mishra from University of Hyderabad elucidated upon bilingualism while Dr. S Husain (IIT-D) talked about processing dependencies. Prof Vaijanthi Sarma (IIT-B) put all of this in perspective by discussing language and cognition as a continuum. The scholar presentations bridged topics from theoretical aspects of Phonology to Behavioural studies on language comprehension, also roping in language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and language teaching at a high level.