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Issue 10, 2016
Established: 1995
Graduation 2016
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Ups And Downs
Deciphered
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Saturday, 14th May, 2016
Squad Goals
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Home Coming
Graduations, 2016
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Feel Good
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-Shreyaa Goswami, XII certain smell gnawing through the air, of the ‘real world’ and the fortitude it takes to make a sound catching you off-guard, will it through. Following the speech the students of sometimes take you back to a place the Batch of 2016 treaded to the forefront towards a where it almost felt like time stood table neatly stacked with the familiar glittering still or perhaps to a time when you stood still silver School Mascots, which abated as each while the world buzzed on. These mystic traces of Aviator made their way towards them. The nostalgia are always far more tender on the heart former Head Boy, Rohan Nandy thereafter made than the real thing, for in time all you’ve ever known his way up to the stage to deliver a speech that will only be a faint smell or a lingering sound. The managed to strike a chord, prompt chuckles and fill the 6th of May was a day that saw more than just audience with a warmth that signified something balloons and streamers fluttering in turbulent far more deeper than a simple affiliation. gusts of wind. Somewhere between the dubious Ending on the same note that our legendary weather and routine life of the School, lay a void, Headmaster Derek Mountford had said from the a hollow shell which once housed familiar faces. same podium, ‘Mum and Dad, it’s finally time to go As evening fell and the threat of an home’ triggered magnanimous applause. This was imminent downpour grew followed by the School Choir rendering a stronger while primly dressed and fresh-faced hymn titled ‘Mata Pita’, a rather pleasant producAviators streamed into the much-accustomed tion if not unconventional. Sriparna Gogoi, the WMH, many for whom it was going to be the erstwhile Head Girl who had carved a niche for last time. The ceremony commenced with the herself on the stage mounted it one last time to deSchool Choir extending their rendition of the liver her final speech as an quintessential number ‘One Moment In Time’, Aviator. Authentic, genuine and coherent, the which was then followed by a speech by the Head speech spoke about the adventurous journey of School. The speech was dotted with instances of becoming an Aviator, followed by another and aphorisms that now form the very ethos of the performance by the School Choir. The Chief Guest AVS Community. It also talked about the nuances of the evening, Mr. Vikram Sahay, the Director of 1
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