The Yearbook 2013

The Yearbook 2013

The Yearbook 2013

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Contents 7 9

Editorial From the Headmaster

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Curriculum: Inside the Class Room

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Academics Careers Art Music Drama Life Skills and Counselling IT

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Curriculum: Outside the Class Room

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On the sports field

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Co-Curricular Programme

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Committees Clubs & Societies STAs Student Exchange Expedition Publications Creative Writing

96 106 111 120 140 156 171 174 179 182 225

Curriculum: Serving the community at Doon (SUPWs) Curriculum: Serving the wider community (Social Service) Hindi Section Staff Boarding & Pastoral Life Founder’s Prize Giving Special Section Special Visits SC Leavers In The Making 5

editorial

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As the last keystrokes on this editorial are made, we come to the end of our fourth and final Yearbook. Honestly, what should have been the precursor to the entire publication was always left to be done at the very, very end. Tomorrow this publication goes to print and both of us have realised that we have come to the end of a long, long journey.

What makes each Yearbook standout from its predecessor is what it brings to the table. As Editors-in-Chief, in these two-fifty pages, the job is to set in stone the year gone by at, possibly, one of the busiest schools in the world.

We often found ourselves asking: What are we leaving behind? Over the four years on the board of this publication, we’ve been introduced to new designs, locations and publishing styles. So what have we introduced?

Each page of this Yearbook captures in itself the minutest of details. Minute, but not insignificant. Arranging furniture in twilight hours for the boarding houses’ photographs, managing up to eight locations for photographs simultaneously, hand-picking the colour for each page and revisiting the entire document till the very last minute. No detail to us was unimportant. From the size of a text box to the arrangement of feet in the photographs, we spared no detail. Though maintaining uniformity often made us sound rigid, the reader will notice that each page has its own story to tell through a design supporting it.

The design this year was painstakingly undertaken entirely by the board. Without this, we felt further from the perfection we aspired to achieve. Every section breaker, every informal photo, every report was handpicked to ensure that each activity gets the significance it deserves. By entirely internalising the design we have been able to pay attention to details like never before, giving the whole publication finesse.

You will also notice how extensively we have tried to capture the Main Building. A memory that resonates in each Dosco’s mind, wherever he may be. From the day he steps into School as a young boy to the day he leaves as a young man, the Main Building connects to each of us, equally. And we’ve tried to capture this beauty in a first of its kind, entirely digital cover. Every arch, every window has been foiled onto the cover to reiterate the majesty of this building.

As we sign off, it is now for the reader to decide if we have done justice to the institution so many of us call home. The aim was to capture the eventful lives that we lead, and as Editors-in-Chief, we hope the Yearbook has tied all the loose ends and brought together the year, almost, perfectly.

Signing off, Editors-in-Chief The Yearbook 2013

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from the headmaster

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In the boys’ minds, 2013 will be remembered as “the VVIP Year” for the number of eminent figures who visited us during its course. From Brian Lara playing in a match against our school team, to Union Ministers Salman Khurshid and Jairem Ramesh respectively opening and closing DSMUN 2013, to the fact-finding mission of the President of Iceland and the visit of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall and future Queen of England, The Doon School’s continued “pulling power” was visibly demonstrated to the boys and masters, to our other stakeholders and to the world. Only a handful of schools around the globe are held in such high regard that they can fill their visitors’ book with such prominent names, and to witness the Minister of External Affairs of the largest democracy on Earth and one of the world’s great powers taking probing questions from teenaged delegates – some from Pakistan and Bangladesh - at our own Model United Nations was truly something to be proud of. I was also invited to represent Indian education at a breakfast meeting of India’s top businessmen and institutional leaders with the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, during his visit to Delhi.

For me, one of the clear highlights of the year was the massed P.T. display held on Main Field during the royal visit. Watching the serried ranks of the five houses in their distinctively coloured P.T. singlets drilling in perfect synchronization was one of the proudest moments in my entire career. My love for the P.T. competition is well known, but in this instance I wanted to show the royal visitors and the world something symbolic of the future; the disciplined, massed ranks of India’s finest young people working in perfect unison towards a single goal. The message to the world was, “Look out! We’re on the march…” The Duchess was suitably impressed, even awed, by what she saw.

But the school’s soul was also revealed by the displays of the boys’ social service work, notably women empowerment schemes, which deeply touched Her Royal Highness. There had been some preliminary discussion about the appropriateness of such a visit to Doon at all because of the unfair “elitist” tag which dogs Doon’s reputation. But when I explained to the advance planning party the work the boys did with underprivileged women, children and young adults, and how many of our boys came from all over India and how many were on scholarships, their visit became a must for them. Similarly, it was a joy to see a duchess swaying rhythmically in her seat and tapping her foot to the Rajasthani folk music played at Founder’s 2013 and enjoying an excerpt from our spectacular musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. To cap it all, we had hundreds of children from our various outreach projects sitting with us in the Rose Bowl.

While the royal visit reinforced our pre-eminence in India, for (apart from a crèche for little children) no other school was singled out for this high profile recognition, the school did not rest on its laurels in 2013. It has been said that “the good is the enemy of the best”, but I would also add that complacency is an additional deadly enemy of the highest levels of achievement. Striving always to be better, as well as to live up to public perception of who we are and what we stand for, is at the heart of what we do at Doon in the classroom, on the sports fields and in myriad other activities. It is important in the twenty-first century to be a restless school, one which is never comfortable with where it sits in the public’s esteem, and never smug or lazy about its past or its current achievements.

As we gear ourselves up to play a leading role in “Project India” in the twenty-first century, we are moving forward on a number of fronts without forgetting our traditions and ethos, so brilliantly displayed on the royal visit. The school’s response to the Uttarakhand flood disaster again encapsulated all that is good and true about Doon. Hundreds of boys and masters fanned out into the hills and began the work of relief and reconstruction that will go on for years, even decades to come. Good leaders of India and the world need first and foremost to be good citizens of their own countries; in this regard Doon’s example is second to none. The work initiated at Rudraprayag, Thatyur, Uttarkarshi and other sites is a tribute to the best elements of our DNA, and a rallying cry to those who are indifferent to the fate of their fellow citizens in their own land.

As I write these words, this great republic has just sent a probe into orbit around Mars, a great tribute to the rich intellectual traditions and superb human talent in the country. Our boys continued to advance on Doon’s intellectual front, and the batch of 2014, who are recognized and celebrated in this first class yearbook, established new records of attainment with their academic results. University placements in India and abroad were excellent, most notably with respect to hyper-competitive Ivy League universities in the United States, and they left School well equipped to play their part in the unfolding global drama of the twenty-first century. I am confident that we shall see great things of them in the decades ahead of us. On behalf of the batch of 2014, and on behalf of all those other Doscos whose achievements are recorded in these pages, I should like to thank the Editors-in-Chief and their hardworking team, as well as the masters who supported them, for their dedication and commitment, an outstanding publication and a fine addition to the annals of Doon.

Dr Peter McLaughlin 9

academics Curriculum: Inside the Class Room

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Academic Council

Primary

Sitting (L to R): Mr Sudhir Thapa, Mr Debashish Chakrabarty, Mrs Priya Chaturvedi, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Mr Pankaj Joshi, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Dr Peter McLaughlin, Mr Vinay Pande, Mr Rajesh Majumdar, Mrs Namrata Pandey, Mr Aloke T Bhowmick, Mr Piyush Malviya, Mr Vishal Mohla

CURRICULUM – INSIDE THE CLASSROOM The Board results this year have been very commendable. The details are given below: ISC 2014 Average marks: 84.4% No. of candidates who appeared for the exam: *

No. of candidates awarded the pass certificate:

Percentage of candidates who scored an average of 90% and above: Percentage of candidates who scored an average of 80% – 89%:

Percentage of candidates who scored an average of 70% – 79%:

Percentage of candidates who scored an average of 60% – 69%: Percentage of candidates who scored an average of 50% – 59%:

Percentage of candidates who scored below 50%:

51 51 45% 25% 20% 8% 2% 0%

This year’s cohort was small because of the high uptake of the IB Diploma Programme Raghav Kothiwal was placed first in the batch with an average of 97.3%.

ICSE 2014 Average marks: 88.8% No. of candidates who appeared for the exam:

No. of candidates awarded the pass certificate:

Percentage of candidates who scored an average of 90% and above: Percentage of candidates who scored an average of 80% – 89%:

Percentage of candidates who scored an average of 70% – 79%:

Percentage of candidates who scored below 70%:

100 100 51% 42% 7% 0%

Anvay Grover was placed first in the batch with an average of 96.4%.

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ICSE Analysis 2000-14 90 85.6 85

83.5

83.1

84.6

85.2

84.5 84.8

2008

2009

86.1

87.3

88.6 88.8

80.6 80

75

78

75.9 75.5

70

65

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Average % 12

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (IB) This year 33 students took the May 2014 Diploma Programme examination. The School’s pass percentage was 97.0% compared to the world average of about 78.5%. The average points score per candidate of the School is 34 compared to the world average for May 2014 of 29.8.

Results of May 2013 International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Examination: Total number of students

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33

Examination result

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Diploma Awarded to 32 students

Average points score of candidates (in terms of total of grades)

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34 (out of 45)

Student scoring the highest points total (43)

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Udbhav Agarwal

Students scoring second : highest points (42)

Anshul Tibrewal

Students scoring third : highest grade total (41)

Kunal Kanodia Nakul Talwar

Number of students who scored 40 points or above

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5

Number of students who scored 35 to 39 points

:

Number of students who scored 30 to 34 points

:

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Comparative IB Results 2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

No. of Students

22

14

23

22

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33

Average points:

34.3

30.0

34.2

34.6

36.4

33.8

43(2)

43(1)

39(3) 38(2) 37(1)

40(1) 39(5) 38(2) 37(2) 36(4)

45(1)

Highest scores:

Pass percentage : 97 % 40(4) 39(2) 38(1) 37(1) 36(3) 35(1)

35(5)

33(1) 32(2) 31(2)

33(1) 31(1)

35(3) 34(1) 33(1) 32(3) 31(2)

34(2) 32(2) 31(1)

39(2) 38(1) 36(2) 35(1) 34(1) 33(2) 32(1)

43(1) 42(1) 41(2) 40(1) 39(1) 38(1) 37(3) 36(1) 35(2) 34(2) 33(3) 32(4) 31(1) 30(1)

30(1)

40 points and over:

18%

0%

9%

9%

9%

15%

35 points and over:

55%

36%

48%

64%

64%

39%

30 points and over:

82%

64%

83%

77%

100%

76%

Under 30 points:

18%

36%

17%

23%

0%

24%

Awarded Diploma:

100%

93%

96%

96%

100%

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Careers Department

Ivy Galore

Head of Depatment Mrs Namrata Pandey

Sitting (L to R): Ms Preeta Priyamvada, Mrs Aanchal Negi, Mr Stephen Magee, Mrs Namrata Pandey, Ms Prachi Nagalia, Mrs Sonia Sharma, Mr Vijay Kumar

This year we received an overwhelming number of offers from universities abroad and India. This list includes several universities and colleges that have made an offer to The Doon School boys for the first time. Some of them are Columbia University in the city of New York, University of Chicago, Duke University after 7 years and two offers from Yale University after 4 years.

Almost half of the SC Form chose to apply to the US universities. We achieved a very impressive average of 4 offers per applicant and a remarkable 14 offers were made by Ivy League institutions. In terms of scholarships too, we have had a very good year. This year over 35 boys were awarded scholarships, some partial, some full, to the tune of $19,48,416 and of $3,27,680 in Hong Kong and Canada.

For S and SC Form students, individual counselling, group counselling and sessions on financial requirements and scholarships were held. Presentations were made for parents during PTMs and their queries and concerns were addressed through PTM presentations and one to one meetings during the week before and after the PTM. Time lines have been developed for S and SC Forms for the work that should ideally be completed every month to ensure a smooth application process. This should also help the boys and their parents understand the amount of planning and action that is required to attain admission to the best colleges in India and overseas.

Students of A Form took the PSAT exam for the third time. The PSAT Results were discussed with students and parents and they were introduced to the ‘My College Quick Start’ which has a repertoire of data and personality tests and other useful data. In the month of February, they were given the ‘Aptitude Interest’ personality test, followed by individual counselling sessions with boys to discuss the results and advise them on career options. Advanced 16+ Options Programme was held for the 2nd year consecutively. All A Form students were individually counselled on subject choices and choice between IB and ISC in their Houses with their tutors. Individual cases were discussed which helped the students take informed decisions. B Form boys participated in ‘Take a Dosco to Work Day’. This event was designed to give boys a first-hand experience and feel of a workplace. Boys were taken to see the work environment of a bank, a multi-specialty hospital, the hospitality industry, an accountancy firm and a law court. Boys continue to be given training for PSAT, SAT, ACT and CLAT. The school is a testing centre for SAT and ACT and is in the process of becoming a TOEFL centre.

The publication How to Future-Proof Your Career has been updated to include a detailed account of how colleges should be chosen and on applying to the US, UK, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and India. The India section has many new sections! Ranking list of universities and colleges for specific courses is included in the updated guide. Three new publications have been introduced this year. These are on Summer Schools, Scholarships and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The Careers Department continued its endeavour to establish links with colleges in India and abroad. The members of the department visited Ahmedabad and Kolkata in India and US, UK and hosted visits of over 100 universities from all over the world.

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USA (133 Offers)

Number of Offers

Bard College Bates College Boston College Boston University Brown University Babson College Brandeis University Bryant University Case Western Reserve University Carnegie Mellon University Colgate University Colby College Cooper Union College Cornell University Columbia University Claremont Mc Kenna College Duke University Drexel University Emory University Franklin and Marshall College Georgia Institute of Technology Harvey Mudd College Indiana University-Bloomington Lafayette College Middlebury College New York University Northeastern University Northwestern University Ohio State University Oberlin College Penn State University Pitzer College Pomona College Princeton University Purdue University Rochester Institute of Technology Rutgers College Southern Methodist University Skidmore College Texas A & M University Trinity College Tufts University University of Cincinnati University of California- Berkeley University of California-Los Angeles University of California- Irvine University of California-San Diego University of Chicago University of Illinois Urbana Champaign University of Massachusetts- Amherst University of Michigan University of Miami University of Southern California University of Pennsylvania University of Texas- Austin Union College (New York)

1 1 1 2 1 4 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 6 2 4 3 10 2 1 3 1 3 2 1 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 7 3 4 1 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 1

Number of Offers University of Virginia Washington University in St Louis Vassar College Wesleyan University Wheaton College Yale University

5 1 1 2 2 2

UNIVERSITY OFFERS 2013

Hong Kong (15 Offers) Hong Kong University Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

10 5

Singapore (5 Offers) YALE-NUS Singapore Management University Nanyang Technological University National University of Singapore Singapore Institute of Management

1 1 1 1 1

India (55 Offers) Amity University, Delhi Ashoka University, Delhi Bhagat Singh College, Delhi Brick School of Architecture, Pune Christ University, Bangalore Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, Delhi Delhi Collage of Art, Delhi English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad Flame School of Liberal Education, Pune HR College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai Hindu College, Delhi Indian Institute of Management, Indore ITC Hospitality Management Institute, Gurgaon Jai Hind College, Mumbai Jamia Millia College, Delhi Kirorimal College, Delhi MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh Motilal Nehru College, Delhi National Council for Hotel Management Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai PESIT, Bangalore Presidency University, Kolkata Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (CBS) SGTB Khalsa College, Delhi Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi Sri Venkateshwara College, Delhi St Xaviers College, Kolkatta St Xaviers College, Mumbai St Stephens College, Delhi

1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 9 2 2 1 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 15

Number of Offers Sushant School of Architecture, Gurgaon Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune Symbiosis Centre of Management Studies University Institute of Engineering & Technology University school of Architecture & Planning (USAP)

1 2 2 1 1

Canada (11 Offers) McGill University University of Alberta University of British Columbia University of Toronto University of Waterloo York University

4 1 2 1 1 2

UK (52 Offers) Aston University City University, London Durham University Imperial College, London INTO City University INTO Exeter University King’s College, London London School of Economics and Political Science University College, London University of Bath University of Bristol University of Edinburgh University of Exeter University of Essex University of Kent University of Lancaster University of Manchester University of Newcastle University of Nottingham University of Roehampton University of St. Andrew’s University of Southampton University of Surrey University of Warwick

1 4 1 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 4 3 2 1 1 2 5 2 2 1 2 1 1 6

The Doon School is a member of the Indian Public Schools’ Conference (IPSC),The Headmaster’s and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC, UK), the International Boys’ Schools Coalition, the Boarding Schools Association UK and The Round Square Association. The Doon School is also an IBO World School and a member of OACAC (Overseas Association for College Admission Counselling), College Board and CASE (Council for Advancement and Support in Education).

The Doon School Mall Road Dehradun India Pin : 248001

HOW TO

FUTURE PROOF YOUR CAREER:

Use the School Resources and Maximise Your Opportunities Second Edition Contact Details:

Direct Telephone Numbers: +91+135+2526490 / 536 E: careercounselling@doonschool.com

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© Copyright : The Doon School Dehradun 2013 All the information is correct at the time of going to press The school reserves the right to make any amendments.

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art

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Art

Finding finesse

Secretary Madhav Dutt Master-in-Charge Mr Aloke Bhowmick

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Krishna Goyal, Arpit Chadda, Utsav Dutt Sharma, Rahul Das, Anirudh Popli, Raihan Rajiv Vadra Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Mr Tapan Barui Mr Sanjib Kalsi, Mrs Mohua Bhowmick, Aloke T Bhowmick, Madhav Dutt, Arnab Mukherjee, Ms Banita Bhau, Mr Sikanto Banerjee, Mr Madan Singh Standing (L to R): Diksha Makhija, Shikha Kothari, Parth Khanna, Digvijay Gupta, Sabir Singh, Amartya T Bhowmick, Abhijeet Kejriwal, Orijeet Chatterjee, Pritika Sandhu

Visual language is one of the important ancient languages and plays an important role in a child’s life. In The Doon School, Art is an important subject and the Art Department is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, including studio spaces, labs and dedicated areas for painting, printing, sculpture, computer art, and many more art forMs Students take a great interest in this subject and some of them even pursue it as a career.

Twenty-six boys opted for Art as a subject in ICSE, ISC and IB in 2013-14. There were 31 boys and girls in the Art STA and 18 students were involved in the Art SUPW. Beside these, around 56 students regularly attend Art classes to learn the subject at a personal level, under the guidance of the Art school teachers.

Below are some of the workshops that were conduct in the year 2013: Prof. Indra Pramit Roy, HOD Painting, MS University of Baroda, Gujarat, visited the Art school and conducted a workshop on ‘Watercolour’. Sixty-one students took part in this workshop.

Mr Aloke T. Bhowmick and Mr Tapan Barui conducted a workshop on ‘Sand Casting’ in September 2013. Boys from the Art Department, as well as Art STA and SUPW boys, took part in this workshop and explored various possibilities of the use of sand, cement, metal, etc in relief sculpture.

The Art Department participated in the IPSC Visual Arts Fest held from 8th to 10th October 2013 at Welham Boys School, Dehradun.

In the Textile section, a ‘Silk Screen’ workshop was conducted by Mr Aloke T. Bhowmick and Mr Sanjib Kalsi in February 2013.

An Art Exhibition of the works by Madhav Dutt was organized; it was highly appreciated by all who attended.

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music

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Music

Melody works

Director of Music Mrs Priya Chaturvedi Captain Hamza Khan

School Music Colours Hamza Khan Imaan Mehta Namanshree jain

Sitting (L to R): Harshvardhan Bansal, Agni Raj Singh, Hamza Khan, Imaan Pariat Mehta, Namanshree Jain Standing (L to R): Mr Avijit Chattopadhyay, Mrs Priya Chaturvedi, Mr Partho Roy Chowdhury, Mr Arun Kumar

Dance

Lock and pop

Master-in-Charge Mrs Priya Chaturvedi Captain Agni Raj Singh

School Music Colours (Dance) Agni Raj Singh Nayan Manchanda Abhishek Kakkar Vatsal Goenka

Sitting (L to R): Yash Upadhyay, Nayan Manchanda, Agni Raj Singh, Mrs Priya Chaturvedi, Abhinav Kejriwal, Abhishek Kakkar, Vatsal Goenka Standing (L to R): Aditya Verma, Akshay Sarougi, Tanishq Agarwala, Saket Golyan, Rishikant Sharma, Gaurav Kothiwal, Pranav Kothiwal, Siddharth Pahuja, Madhav Bhardwaj 21

Trinity Guildhall Examinees

School of rock

Master-in-Charge Mrs Priya Chaturvedi Boy-in-Charge Harshvardhan Bansal

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Anuvrath Choudhary, Yuvraj Nathani, Namanshree Jain, Mrs Priya Chaturvedi, Harshvardhan Bansal, Mr Arun Kumar, Agni Raj Singh, Imaan Mehta, Hamza Khan, Madhav Goel Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Vrindam Nagpal, Aditya Bhattacharya, Arya Tamrakar, Angad Trehan, Uttkarsh Agarwal, Madhav Khirwar, Rahil Chamola, SIddharth Goel, Anant Mohan, Mukul Goyal, Atrey Bhargava, Rudra Srivastava Sitting 3rd Row (L to R): Shashwat Bansal, Mubarak Mehta, Ritik Chamola, Samarth Makhija, Laksh Sharaf, Krishna Lohiya, Daksh Bhatia, Navraaj Randhava, Madhav Singhal, Shive Khanna, Aditya Verma, Codanda Cariapa Chengappa

Music Productions in 2013 The musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying was produced as the Founder’s Day English play performance. The Broadway musical featured a variety of music genres and styles, ranging from big band swing to the blues. All of it was rendered by the School Orchestra and Choir, with songs, incidental music , overture and entr’acte music played by a highly talented and motivated ensemble on piano, keyboards, saxophone, violin, drum kit, guitar and bass guitar.

A concert featuring the folk music of Rajasthan and classical ragas was held on Founder’s Day itself. A brilliant percussion ensemble, a large choir, many of whom were the youngest members of the School community, and an orchestra that featured sitar, sarod, guitar, violin and santoor truly showcased the dynamic nature of music in school.

Examinations Trinity College, London Grade Examinations in music held in November 2013 brought a one hundred percent pass result, with all students awarded Merit or Distinction. Students appeared in the advanced grades in violin, piano and guitar. Three students topped the North India region for the year 2013, and Laksh Sharaf scored an astounding 100% in Grade 4 Piano, making him a world topper in the grade.

Trinity’s Rock and Pop examination was also introduced in School in 2013 and all students who took the examination in drum kit and guitar passed with High Merit or Distinction.

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English Dramatics

All the world’s a stage

Master-in-Charge Mr Shrey Nagalia Boy-in-Charge Devesh Sharma

English Dramatics Colours Devesh Sharma Shivam Sharma Arjun Sharma

Sitting (L to R): Sachin Mehra, Sahir Chaudhary, Devesh Sharma, Mr Shrey Nagalia, Malini Malviya, Arjun Sharma, Shivam Sharma Standing (L to R): Archit Bartwal, Smirthi Nair, Smayan Sahani, Yuvan Kumar, Ishaan Kapoor, Sayuj Dhandhania, Abhinav Kejriwal, Madhav Bhardwaj, Nalini Malviya

Keeping in line with the proud tradition of doing everything in-house, Founder’s Day 2013 saw The Doon School putting on a massive musical – How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The hilarious Broadway show was performed to packed audiences in The Rose Bowl and was very well received by parents as well as guests.

It took nearly a year’s work and immense amounts of effort by students, as well as members of the faculty, to stage the show. In all, around 80 students took part in the performance as part of the cast, orchestra, choir, dancers, stage committee, and the AV squad, guided and supported by members of staff. Such was the success of the show that, apart from demands to travel with it, the School also had the privilege of performing an excerpt of it in front of The Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles.

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Hindi Dramatics

आसमान से टपके खजूर पे अटके Master-in-Charge Dr Md Hammad Farooqui Boy-in-Charge Ritesh Shinde

Hindi Dramatics Colours

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Himanshu Poddar, Mihir Kiran, Jai Ahuja, Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui, Ritesh Shinde, Mr Dhanesh Joshi, Yashraj Agarwal, Aashim Bansal, Sudhansh Agarwal

Ritesh Shinde Yashraj Agarwal Mihir Kiran Aashim Bansal Jai Ahuja Sachin Mehra Himanshu Poddar Sahir Chaudhary

Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Rishabh Sharma, Arth Gupta, Bhuvan Verma, Atrey Bhargava, Rudra Srivastava, Parth Aggarwal, Tejit Vinod Pabari, Aditya Dhingra

Visits 2013 A visit to the Jaipur Literary Festival was held between 15 to 22 January 2013. Boys and staff members attended fifty sessions and discussions on literary, cultural, and various contemporary issues.

Visit to Mahatma Gandhi, International Hindi University, Wardha, Maharashtra, from 26th February to 4th March.

Eight boys and staff members went on the visit.

Performances: World Theatre Day, 27th March: A dramatized play reading by boys of Andhey by Kannada playwright Mr K.T.Gutti was performed to celebrate the day. Participants were Aashim Bansal, Madhav Bhardwaj, Vansh Aggarwal, Tejit Pabari, Atrey Bhargava, Bhuvan Verma, Rudra Srivastava, Karan Dhillon, Rahul Bhagchandani, Sudhanshu Agarwal, Rishabh Sharma.

An Play Reading (English) of “The Reading” by Mahesh Dattani was also held. Participants were Mihir Kiran, Jai Ahuja, Anirudh Popli.

A Stage performance of an English Play, “A Sip of Water”, translated from Marathi by Shanta Gokhle, originally written by Premanad Gajvi was displayed. Participants were Madhav Bhardwaj, Karan Dhillon, Ananya Sethi.

Junior Play: Junior boys have always used theatre in School as a means to have an impact and make their presence felt in the School community at large. The boys performed the street play “Golmaal” during the Founder’s Day exhibition. Twenty boys from across D and C forms were part of the street play. Five junior boys participated in the state level round of the tGELF street play competition and secured the second position.

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Life Skills and Counselling

Calm and controlled

Sitting (L to R) : Mr Ken McRae, Ms Anamika Ghose

The counselling of students, which is part of the Development Plan to address the learning difficulties and special needs of students, as well as maintaining the mental and emotional health of boys, continued to be developed over the year. The counsellors have had many individual sessions with students, as well as group sessions within the boarding houses to address issues and help in pastoral care. Parents continue to interact via email as well as in the sessions arranged during the Parent-Teacher Meetings (PTMs) across all Forms; these have helped students with various difficulties to come forward for counselling and have also helped parents better understand the need for counselling and life skills classes.

This year the Special Needs Programme, in collaboration with the Mathematics and Science Departments, has started review classes (“remedial lessons”). These are taken after several sessions and proper assessment for students who have not been performing to their potential. The classes are conducted by faculty in the evenings.

The subjects, for which revision and re-teaching of certain concepts are provided to aid the child to keep pace with his peers, are Maths, Physics and Chemistry. These classes will be followed up with another review meeting with each department, as well as the teachers concerned.

The School has continued with its follow-up programme to help students with special needs. The coordinator for special needs has liaised with various Heads of Department about the special needs programme and they had a session with the counsellor to help identify students they felt required assessment through the WoodcockeJohnson test, and further plan and design IEP’s (Individualized Education Programmes) for the students to help them cope with their academic subjects and perform to the best of their abilities.

The school counsellor attended an international conference held in Kolkata on Dyslexia in December 2013. The life skills teachers attended the tGELF Programme on leadership held at Welham Girls School in April 2013. The sessions with Ms Naella Grew and the Life Skills teachers helped in the creation of a curriculum designed specifically for The Doon School across Forms and dovetailing the academic curriculum as well as the five key aspects of the SEAL programme.

During the course of the year a counselling office was located in the Wellness Centre as part of the School’s ongoing emphasis on holistic approaches to health and wellbeing.

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Information Technology Department

Tech Savvy

Head of Depatment Mr Vishal Mohla

Sitting (L to R): Mr Umung D Varma, Mr Ambikesh Shukla, Mr Vishal Mohla, Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian, Mr K C Maurya

The Doon School’s IT department has worked to make IT fully accessible to all members of the School community.

The School has started using Google Apps for Education as a mailing solution. Email accounts with the School’s domain name are also being offered to alumni, besides all the members of the School community.

In the interest of the student community and maintaining the School’s value system, effective monitoring of access to social networking sites is carried out. The School has procured a new UTM (Universal Threat Management) device from Fortigate, which acts as a firewall as well as a content filtering solution. A talk by Mr Rakshit Tandon, renowned Cyber Security Expert was conducted for the whole school in the Rose Bowl on 9th March 2013 to raise awareness about Cyber Security and Safe Surfing on the web. We have also planned to have a talk by Mr Tandon to parents during our PTM meetings.

A new ERP Solution, SIMS (School Information Management System), was introduced to the School in the month of February 2013. SIMS is a Management Information System used by more than 22,000 schools around the world. Representatives of Capita SIMS, UK and a team from Bangalore visited the school, and consulted each department about the requirements to implement SIMs The implementation of this solution is in progress and the software will be operational for a number of academic and administrative modules from February 2013, the start of the new academic year. The financial modules will be implemented at a later date as they are still in development.

As always, the students play an important role in decision-making at School, and the Technology Council is no exception. The Council met six times during the year 2013-14. The feedback and suggestions from students were discussed and actively considered.

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on the sports field Curriculum: Outside the Class Room

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Athletics Set, go!

Captain: Sidharth Sethi Master-in-Charge: Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali

Full Colours Siddharth Sarin Devang Mehra Half Colours Arunabh Utkarsh Kartikeya Kardam Nikhil Saraf Rishav Raj Das Yasser Iqbal Varun Sinha Rajkumar Vijay Suyash Bishnoi

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Nikhil Saraf, Arjun Kamdar, Varun Sinha, Vedant Khanna, Rishavraj Das, Siddharth Sarin, Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali, Sidharth Sethi, Devang Mehra, Dhruv Prasad, Yasser Iqbal, Arunabh Utkarsh, Kartikeya Kardam, Suyash Bishnoi Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Suhel Karara, Ruhaan Dev Tyagi, Nachiket Jain, Shashwat Arya, Yash Mishra, Parth Vohra, Aditya Vir Roy, Palash Kanwar, Angad Singh Shergill, Shivinderjit Cheema, Daksh Bhatia, Harshvardhan Singh, Yash Dhandhania, Fateh Singh Phoolka, Sarthak Katiyar, Atharva Matta Sitting 3rd Row (L to R): Rishabh Dev, Suryansh Kainthola, Angad Singh Trehan, Yashvansh Chawla, Sikandar Suri, Keshav Maliah, Divij Mullick, Udayveer Singh Sekhon, Ajatshatru Singh, Ritzy Rajaswi

No other sporting event manages to equal athletics, which remains awe-inspiring. It showcases the best Athletic talents in the School. Simply put, the athletics season marks the sporting crescendo at The Doon School. This year Uday Veer Sekhon won the “Most Promising Athlete” award. In the mediums category, Kartikeya Kardam, Nikhil Saraf, Pratyush Bharti, Shivinderjit Cheema, Ritzy Rajaswi and Arunabh Utkarsh were the performers who made their presence felt. Arunabh Utkarsh set a new record in the Discus throw event of 33.0m. Siddharth Sarin, Varun Sinha, Devang Mehra, Rajkumar Vijay, Sarthak Katiyar, Yasser Iqbal and Rishavraj Das were the star performers in the senior category. The school athletics captain, Sidharth Sethi, stunned the school with his performance in the Pentathlon. The 5000m race saw Devang Mehra and Ritzy Rajaswi keeping everybody on tenterhooks, with Devang finally clinching the race in a photo finish.

The juniors’ cup was won by Hyderabad house. Mediums’ was taken by Tata House, while the senior cup went to Jaipur house. The exchange student Nicholas Dedecor set the tracks on fire with his amazing athletics talent.

The overall house cup went to Hyderabad House. Devang Mehra won the “Best Athlete” award. The Marching Competition cake was won by Oberoi House. The School sent its Athletics team for the IPSC and Districts, which were held on the same date. Our boys gave a very spirited performance in the IPSC held at PPS Nabha, Punjab.

Siddharth Sarin ,Varun Sinha and Kartikey Garg qualified for the finals and helped the School gain 6 points for the team championship total. In the Districts our boys claimed six medals: 5 silvers and 1 gold.

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Badminton The new ‘racket’

Captain: Kabir Sethi Master-in-Charge: Mr Chandan Singh Ghughtyal

Full Colours Sidharth Sethi Half Colours Saket Golyan Akarsh Tibrewal Aditya Gandhi

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Akarsh Tibrewal, Mr Vivek Kumar, Sidharth Sethi, Mr Chandan Singh Ghughtyal, Kabir Sethi, Mr Arvind Dethe, Aditya Gandhi Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Ashish Pande, Jehan Jhaveri, Vansh Agarwal, Saket Golyan, Kartikay Garg, Lakshman Santhanam, Atreya Guruprasad, Kabir Kochar

The School Badminton team undertook rigorous practice sessions throughout the year. The School Team played several tournaments and a number of Inter-School fixtures. In the All India IPSC Badminton Tournament 2013, the team Kabir Sethi, Sidharth Sethi and Saket Golyan in the the U-19 team reached the semi-finals.

The Under-17 team, comprising Akarsh Tibrewal, Kartikay Garg, Vansh Agarwal and Ashish Pande also reached the semi-finals. In the individual U-17 category, Akarsh Tibrewal won a bronze medal. Atrey Guruprasad was declared the Most Promising Player of the tournament. Akarsh Tibrewal, Kabir Sethi and Jehan Jhaveri were selected for the Schools Games Federation of India (SGFI) national camp.

In the Council’s Schools Tournament our senior team won their category. In the junior category, the School was declared the runners-up. The junior team comprised Atrey Guruprasad, Lakshman Santhanam, Jehan Ankit Jhaveri and Kabir Singh Kochar, whereas the senior team comprised Kabir Sethi, Sidharth Sethi, Aditya Gandhi, Akarsh Tibrewal and Vansh Agarwal. In the seniors individual category, Akarsh Tibrewal won silver losing to Kabir Sethi.

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Basketball Swish

Captain: Waseefullah Khan Sherwani Master-in-Charge: Mr Ashish Dean

Full Colours Suhel Karara Kushagr Singh Sehaj Singh Jouhal Half Colours Atharva Shree Matta Shivaan Seth Suyash Bishnoi Tanishq Agarwala

Sitting (L to R): Kushagr Singh, Sehaj Singh Jouhal, Mr Ashish Dean, Waseefullah Khan Sherwani, Mr Jitendra Tiwari, Suhel Karara, Tanishq Agarwala Standing (L to R): Atharva Matta, Shourya Kishorepuria, Nihal Dhillon, Raghav Gupta, Nachiket Jain, Sajal Bansal, Karan Sethy

In the All-India Inter-School IPSC Basketball Tournament 2013-2013, held at Pestle Weed College, sixteen teams participated. The Doon School reached the quarter-finals in the tournament.

In the Frank Anthony Memorial Super Fixed Five Basketball Tournament held at Hilton School, Dehradun, the School reached semi-finals, losing to DIS, Dehradun. In the closely following Afzal Khan tournament our School team reached the quarter-finals.

In the Asian Challenge Cup Basketball tournament the School team reached the semi-finals, losing to hosts The Asian School. In the Golden Jubilee Tournament held at Welham Boys’ School, our team lost in the finals against Welham Boys’ School and was declared runners-up. Sehaj Singh Jouhal and Waseefullah Khan Sherwani participated in the Junior National Basketball Championship held in Cuttak. Suhel Karara represented Uttarakhand State at the Junior National Championships held in Ernakulam, Kerala. Nachiket Jain and Suhel Karara represented Dehradun in the Uttarakhand Junior State Championship. Naman Khurana, Ravshaan Singh, Ritwik Saraf and Zohravar S. Bhatti represented Dehradun in the in the Sub-Junior Basketball Championship.

All in all, it was an extremely successful year for School.

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Boxing Give blue a hand

Captain: Durgesh Agarwal Master-in-Charge: Mr Sudhir Thapa

Full Colours Sartaj Singh Sidhu Half Colours Ruhaan Dev Tyagi Tanishq Agarwala Vatsal Agrawal Chirag Mittal

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Vatsal Agarwal, Ruhaan Dev Tyagi, Durgesh Agarwal, Mr Sudhir Thapa, Chirag Mittal, Tanishq Agarwala, Kartikeya Kardam Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Nehansh Saxena, Keshav Maliah, Nikhil Bansal, Nikhil Chauhan, Shreshth Mehra, Daksh Bhatia, Yash Kuldeep Mishra

This year, in spite of a very tight schedule, practices for boxing were held regularly. The true skill, hard work and energy of the boxers were seen during the training sessions.

The 75th Inter-House Boxing Competition was held from 12th to 14th November 2013. All the rules and technical aspects were strictly followed for the competition. Below are the results: Weight Category Winner Runner-Up Special Weight Nehansh Saxena Rushil Goyal Paper Weight Keshav Maliah Rishabh Dev Midget Weight Nikhil Bansal Prakarsh Gupta Gnat Weight Nikhil Chauhan Archit Barthwal Light Fly Weight Shreshth Mehra Divij Mullick Fly Weight Kartikey Kardam Tanay K. Agarwal Bantam Weight Yash Kuldeep Mishra Arnav Goyal Feather Weight Tanishq Agarwal Chirag Mittal Light Weight Sartaj Singh Sidhu Tanmay Gupta Light Welter Weight Ruhaan Dev Tyagi Agastya Bellad Heavy Weight Daksh Bhatia Nihal Sharma Super Heavy Weight Vatsal Agarwal Aamir Shah Best Loser : Most Scientific Boxer :

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Cricket Junior

Master-in-Charge: Mr Devender Kumar Mishra

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Ashwin Agarwal, Siddharth Jain, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Das, Sikandar Suri, Mr Devender Kumar Mishra, Vihaan Bhatnagar, Suryansh Agarwal, Yash Killa, Divij Kapoor, Karan Dhillon Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Madhav Agarwal, Yashvansh Chawla, Ishaan Vaish, Divij Mullick, Ajatshatru Singh, Udayvir Singh Jaijee, Raghav Kumar, Angad Singh Shergill

The School Junior Cricket team an extraordinary season. The boys performed exceptionally in matches both at home and away.

The team was under the guidance of Mr Devander Kumar Mishra whose commitment and dedication towards the team cannot go unnoticed.

Matches were played against Lawrence, Sanawar, Modern School, Vivek High School, Chandigarh and LHSF, Pilibhit. Emerging talent was seen in the form of Rahul Das, Vihaan Bhatnagar, Siddhanth Jain and Angad Singh Shergill. Many senior members of the junior team are set to lay for the School Cricket team in the forth coming year, displaying the training and passion the boys have developed for the sport.

D-Form Matches D-Form boys were full of energy and enthusiasm and went for practices regularly. Martyn House won all matches against Foot House. After a gap of years, a good number of talented cricketers have emerged in D-Form.

Martyn House won the series 3-0 against Foot House.

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Cricket Senior Caught and bold

Captain: Kabir Sethi Master-in-Charge: Mr Manish Pant

Full Colours Sidharth Sethi Waseefullah Khan Sherwani Half Colours Divij Batra Akhil Ranjan

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Akshay Sarawgi, Divij Batra, Waseefullah Khan Sherwani, Rishavraj Das, Mr Manish Pant, Kabir Sethi, Sidharth Sethi, Dhruv Prasad, Vedant Khanna, Chirag Mittal Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Aditya Vir Roy, Akhil Ranjan, Saksham Arya, Suhel Karara, Aryaman Panwar, Madhav Goel

The School Cricket team had an encouraging season this year under the leadership of the team captain, Kabir Sethi.

The cricket season began with Pre-Season training camp in January for both seniors and juniors. After the camp the senior team went to play schools from the Punjab. The School team won two matches out of four against YPS, Mohali and PPS, Nabha. This year, for the first time School hosted a junior cricket tournament to give an opportunity to the young talents to develop and experience the competitive level of inter-school sport.

The School Cricket Team played fixtures with various visiting teams and also visited other schools for matches.

The results were as follows: Kabir Sethi was awarded best batsman trophy in the Pinegrove tournament.

The boys competed with the following schools/clubs: Kasiga School; Bar Council, Dehradun; Sports College, Dehradun; YPS Patiala; Lawrence, Sanawar; Scindia School; Mayur College, Ajmer; Modern School; YPS Mohali; Vivek High School, Chandigarh; PPS Nabha; Daly College, Indore; LaMartiniere Boys, Kolkata; LHSF, Pilibhit.

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Football The universal language

Captain: Shivaan Seth Master-in-Charge: Mr Michael James

Full Colours Aahan Menon Ashish Rao Suraj Bishnoi Zahaan Qureshi Dhruv Prasad Half Colours Aditya Vir Roy Anant Singh Mann Kismat Chopra Aamir Shah

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Waseefullah Khan Sherwani, Anant Singh Mann, Suraj Bishnoi, Ashish Rao, Aditya Vir Roy, Mr Michael James, Shivaan Seth, Zahaan Qureshi, Dhruv Prasad, Aamir Shah, Suhel Karara Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Kushagr Singh, Aditya Gupta, Rajkumar Vijay, Devang Mehra, Kismat Chopra, Angad Shergill, Mahanaaryaman Scindia, Akhil Ranjan, Karan Dhillon

This year football season was one that the team is bound to remember for years. Under the able leadership of Shivaan Seth, the team performed splendidly, playing a total of 20 matches.

The School also participated in the RIMC Annual Football Cup, qualifying through the league stages into the Quater Finals. The team could not proceed any further in the tournament.

IPSC 2013 at Ranipur: The team managed to win all league matches and reach the quarter finals. The School team could not qualify for the semi-finals due to the over all goal average.

Aditya Vir Roy represented the IPSC team in the School National Games at Pune in the Under-19 IPSC Football tournament and received an “Outstanding Achievement Award 2013�. The IPSC football team played in the finals against Kerala State and lost in the final. Aditya Vir Roy was selected for the Under-19 Indian team.

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Golf The ‘greener’ side

Captain: Zahaan Qureshi Master-in-Charge: Mr Umung D Varma

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Rishi Raj Deva, Ashvin Solanki, Anant Singh Mann, Zahaan Qureshi, Mr Umung D Varma, Sumer Sehgal, Divyant Sapra, Sartaj Singh Sidhu, Jai Lanba Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Fateh Raj Khanna, Divij Kapoor, Jayadityavir Singh, Rohan Agarwal, Rishabh Agarwal, Ranveer Modi, Varun Sehgal, Aviraj Singh Machre

In March 2013, eight boys and the Master-in-Charge, Mr Sanjiv Bathla, attended the World Schools Golf Challenge at Hua Hin, Thailand. This was the highest level of Golf tournament attended so far. Twenty-six teams from all over the world participated. The Doon School team was the only one from the Indian sub-continent. The team stood 15th at the senior level and Zahaan Qureshi and Varun Sehgal stood 10th in their individual category.

Zahaan Qureshi and Sumer Sehgal represented the School in the Madhav Rao Scindia Inter-School Gold Tournament, where the School emerged the winners.

The School is continuing to use The Defence Services Officers’ Institute for practising Golf.

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Hockey

Captain: Ashish Rao

Gentlemen of the field

Master-in-Charge: Dr Arvindanabha Shukla

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Ritesh Shinde, Aamir Shah, Shivaan Seth, Ashish Rao, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Kabir Sethi, Dhruv Prasad,Durgesh Agarwal, Marut Garg Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Kismat Chopra, Naadir Singh, Nikhil Saraf, Kartikeya Kardam, Akhil Ranjan, Aditya Vir Roy, Paramdeep Singh, Anubhav Agarwal, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Angad Shergill

The School hockey team had an outstanding season this year under the leadership of the captain, Ashish Rao. The School played various matches with the Old Boys, YPS, Patiala, Welham Boys’, Punjab Public School, Nabha, Wyneberg Allen School, Mussoorie, Moravian Institute, Dehra Dun, and St. George’s, Mussoorie. The results were as followes: Played Won Lost Seniors 11

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The School Senior Hockey team participated in the Kandhari Memorial Hockey Tournament held at Welham Boys School, Dehra Dun and reached the semi-final. Aditya Vir Roy was judged ‘Most Attacking Player of the Tournament’.

The School Senior team also participated in the 1st David Inglis Memorial Hockey Tournament held at Wyneberg Allen School, Mussoorie. The team won the tournament without losing a match. Kismat Chopra was awarded ‘Golden Stick’ for scoring maximum goals in the tournament. Akhil Ranjan was adjudged ‘Man of the Tournament’ for his excellent display of skill and game plan.

Kabir Sethi, Dhruv Prasad, Shivaan Seth, Durgesh Agarwal, Ishan Sandhu, Marut Garg and Aamir Shah displayed great promise on the field.

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PT

Disciplinarians

School PT Leader: Karan Pratap Singh Kairon Master-in-Charge: Mr Michael James

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Dhruv Prasad, Zahaan Qureshi, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Mr Michael James, Rishabh Chadda, Raghav Kothiwal, Divij Batra Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Shubham Agarwal, Nipurn Datta, Durgesh Agarwal, Aamir Shah, Marut Garg, Harshil Aggarwal, Zorawar Singh

This year’s Inter-House PT Competition was one that kept spectators hooked till the very end.

The precision, determinations and coordination showed by the Houses and PT Leaders was one that surpassed so many other years. The appointment of Karan Pratap Singh Kairon marked the beginning of two months of rigorous training.

This year was special compared to other years as the PT Season did not end at the Inter House PT Competition.

The visit by The Duchess of Cornwall gave the School a chance to display PT at a massive scale that had not been performed before. The School performed a Mini PT Competition with a School Marker and all houses performing together. The Houses put up a show that would echo in the viewers minds for many years to come.

All in all, PT in School has always been and will be an integral part of Dosco life. The boys upheld this value over the past year and we hope to see many more successful years of PT to follow.

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Squash Out of the box.

Captain: Ishan Sandhu Master-in-Charge: Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj

Half Colours Sudhansh Agarwal Dhananjaya Bansal Jai Ahuja

Sitting 1st Row: Rohin Agarwal Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Devansh Agarwal, Sudhansh Agarwal, Ishan Sandhu, Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj, Jai Ahuja, Dhananjaya Bansal, Shreyansh Chedda Standing (L to R): Shourya Kishorepuria, Nikhil Fatehpuria, Sajal Bansal, Dhruv Ahuja, Parth Khanna, Rishi Raj Deva, Atrey Bhargava

The School Squash team played various friendly matches with Woodstock, Mussoorie and RIMC, Dehradun in different categories and brought laurels to the School.

The School was represented by Ishan Sandhu, Dhananjaya Bansal, Sudhansh Agarwal, Jai Ahuja, Nikhil Fatehpuria, Ajatshatru Singh and Bharat Chaudhary at Daly College, Indore in the IPSC Tournament.

In the Uttarakhand States held in Haridwar the boys played in team and individual events. The Doon School stood runners-up in the team event. Ishan Sandhu won the individual category.

The Squash Individual Championship was held in the School from 3rd to 18th May and the results were:

Winner Runner up Under 19 Sidharth Sethi Raghav Kothiwal Under 17 Dhananjaya Bansal Sajal Bansal Under 15 Shaurya Kishorepuriya Sajal Bansal Under 13 Ajatshatru Singh Shiven Khanna

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Swimming Water lords

Captain: Sumer Sehgal Master-in-Charge: Mr Samik Das

Full Colours Divyant Sapra Pranjal Bhatt Half Colours Rohan Agarwal Vinayak Chaudhary

Sitting (L to R): Nehansh Saxena, Gaurav Kothari, Abhishek Pai, Rohan Agarwal, Divyant Sapra, Mr Samik Das, Sumer Sehgal, Shubham Agarwal, Vinayak Chaudhary, Josh Pasricha, Pranjalya Shukla Standing (L to R): Rishabh Goel, Tanay Agarwal, Varun Sehgal, Kshitij Goel, Pratyaksh Parmar, Dhruv Johri, Dhruv Kharbanda, Nihal Singh Mann, Ritvik Kar, Udai Nath Behl, Anish Bhide, Raghav Kumar

2013 was a glorious year for swimming. In the Inter-House Competition, three new records were set this year in the Juniors category by Nehansh Saxena in 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke and in 50m Backstroke. The School hosted the second Inter-School Aquatic Meet. Eight Schools participated in the tournament. The School Swimming Team won the Under-15 Category and the overall championship.

The swimming team participated in the All-India IPSC Championship held at DPS RK Puram. In the individual Under-14 Category, Tanay Agarwal won 2 silver medals, Anish Bhide won 1 silver and 1 bronze medal, and Kshitij Goel won a bronze medal. The junior relay team won silvers in both the medley and freestyle relay events Tanay Gopal Agarwal and Anish Bhide were selected for the SGFI nationals held at Pune.

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Table Tennis Round the Table

Captain: Raghav Kothiwal Master-in-Charge: Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian

Re-awarded Full Colours Rishabh Chadda Shivan Tandon Re-awarded Half Colours Shrey Raj Kapoor Half Colours Kanav Agarwal

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Shivan Tandon, Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian, Raghav Kothiwal, Mr Chit Ranjan Kagdee, Shrey Raj Kapoor, Rishabh Sharma Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Kanav Agarwal, Siddhant Gupta, Chaitanya Agarwal, Arunav Vaish

Table Tennis is played around the year in School. This has become one of the popular racquet games at Doon.

The School organized a coaching camp for seniors from 1st August to 17th August 2013.

In IPSC-2013, the School (U-19) team won all the matches in its group. In the semi-final, the team defeated Raj Kumar College, Rajkot. The team lost to DPS RK Puram in the final match. The team comprised Raghav Kothiwal, Shivan Tandon, Rishabh Chadda and Rishabh Sharma. Raghav Kothiwal, Shivan Tandon and Ishan Jhawar were selected to represent the IPSC team in their respective categories at the National School Games held in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. This year’s team set high standards for the forthcoming years.

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Tennis Rally masters

Master-in-Charge: Mr Deepak Sharma

Re-awarded Full Colours (for the second time) Arush Sood Full Colours Devang Mehra Shivan Tandon Siddharth Bhardwaj Half Colours Rohan Chaudhari Akhil Ranjan Yash Malhotra

Sitting (L to R): Devang Mehra, Arush Sood, Mr Deepak Sharma, Shivan Tandon, Siddharth Bhardwaj Standing (L to R): Viksit Verma, Harshit Bansal, Akhil Ranjan, Yash Malhotra, Rohan Chaudhari, Leonardo Pamei, Samarth Bhardwaj

The season started with the Dr S R Vohra Tournament which was Vikshit Verma emerge as the winner. In the State Open Junior Tennis Tournament held at Shanti Academy, Dehradun, Harshit Bansal, Rishank Kala, Ishaan Vaish and Viksit Verma won their respective categories in doubles.

The School Tennis team took part in the IPSC Tennis Championship, held at DPS School R K Puram, New Delhi.

In the Under-19 category the team of Siddharth Bhardwaj, Arush Sood, Devang Mehra and Shivan Tandon won the silver medal. In the Under-14 category, the team comprising Viksit Verma, Aayush Chaudhary, Harshit Bansal and Ishaan Vaish won the gold medal. Vikshit Verma won a bronze in the individual category. The School Team won the Overall Team Championship along with DPS RK Puram.

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activities Committees Clubs and Societies Spare Time Activities Student Exchange

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Games’ Committee

Moneyball

Chairperson Mr Deepak Sharma Secretary Sidharth Sethi

Sitting (L to R): Mr Sudhir Thapa, Dr Srinivas Swamy, Mr Manish Pant, Mr Chandan Singh Ghughtyal, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Mr Michael James, Sidharth Sethi, Mr Deepak Sharma, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Mr Samik Das, Mr Ashish Dean, Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian, Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali, Mr Devender Kumar Mishra, Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj Standing (L to R): Sumer Sehgal, Kabir Sethi, Waseefullah Khan Sherwani, Ishan Sandhu, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Shivaan Seth, Ashish Rao, Raghav Kothiwal, Durgesh Agarwal

Library Council

Booked

Chairperson Dr Peter McLaughlin Secretary Udbhav Agarwal

Sitting (L to R): Mr Chit Ranjan Kagdee, Mrs Priya Chaturvedi, Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya, Mr Manoj Pandey, Mr Samik Das, Dr Peter Mclaughlin, Udbhav Agarwal, Mr Pankaj Das, Dr Mona Khanna, Ms Anamika Ghose, Mr Vishal Mohla, Mr Vinay Pande Standing (L to R): Saksham Goel, Arhant Khullar, Ishaan Kapoor, Jai Ahuja, Omar Chishti, Shreyash Agarwal, Suyash Raj Shivam 46

Mess Committee

Critiques

Chairperson Mr Prabhakaran Nair Secretary Hamza Khan

Sitting (L to R): Yashraj Agrawal, Mr Samik Das, Nakul Talwar, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Hamza Khan, Mr Sameer L Katre, Mr Sanjay Makhija, Mrs Sonali Malviya Standing (L to R): Vineet Puri, Harshil Aggarwal, Katikey Luthra, Gatik Gupta, Dhruv Ahuja, Samarth Bhardwaj, Bhuvan Verma

Study Council

Top priority

Chairperson Dr Peter McLaughlin Secretary Pranay Raj Kapoor

Sitting (L to R): Yash Malhotra, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Pranay Raj Kapoor, Dr Peter Mclaughlin, Mr Vinay Pande, Ritesh Shinde Standing (L to R): Siddharth Pahuja, Azan Brar, Sachin Mehra, Shaurya Agarwal

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Technology Council

Cutting edge

Chairperson Dr Peter McLaughlin Secretary Utkarsh Jha

Sitting (L to R): Mr K C Maurya, Mr Ambikesh Shukla, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Dr Peter McLaughlin, Utkarsh Jha, Mr Vishal Mohla, Mr Vickram Sabharwal, Mr Rajesh Majumdar, Mr Varun Walia Standing (L to R): Jai Khanna, Vivan Sharma

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Astronomy Society Dark side of the moon

Boy-in-Charge: Agastya Bellad Master-in-Charge: Mr Rajesh Majumdar

This year the society organized several sky view sessions in the School campus. A special initiative was taken up by boys this year to invite less privileged students from associated schools to observe stellar patterns.

A ‘Planetarium Show’ was organized in the MPH with a 7-metre dome structure. The show focused on the formation of the universe and its components. Some members spotted the International Space Station (ISS) once again passing over the city last November. The information about the passage is obtained from websites and through an unknown astronomer at Jamnagar who sends regular messages to the society email address.

Sitting (L to R): Atreya Guruprasad, Dhruv Kharbanda, Agastya Bellad, Mr Rajesh Majumdar, Yash Upadhyay, Anirudh Batra, Ananay Sethi

The society is now planning to start an ‘Amateur Astronomer’ for its members in association with a professional club. This sixteen-week long certificate course added academic value to the students of the society.

Standing (L to R): Darsh Garg, Abhiraj Lamba, Yaduraj Rathi, Kunal Gupta, Shivendra Pratap Singh, Amogh Tiwari, Ojas Kharbanda, Aviraj Singh Machre

Business Club Rags to riches

Boy-in-Charge: Harshil Aggarwal Master-in-Charge: Mr Samik Das

The Business Club of our school introduced the Young Entrepreneurship Program in the Spring Term, 2013. Under the programme interested SC formers were invited to start their own businesses by investing capital from their pocket money. Six business plans were passed. However, only two groups ventured out and implemented their business ideas.

A group consisting of Arnav Goyal, Jai Ahuja and Shubham Agarwal named their business “Dosco Dairy” and reported a profit of Rs 1,744 with an investment of Rs 7,500. The return on investment was 23.25%.

Sitting (L to R): Sidharth Sethi, Harsh Singhania, Jai Singh Yadav, Chaitanya Fatehpuria, Mr Samik Das, Harshil Aggarwal, Arnav Goyal, Vatsal Goenka, Anshul Tibrewal

The other group consisting of Vatsal Goenka, Varun Pais and Anshul Tibrewal, named their business “Sai’s Cakes” and reported a profit of Rs 7,086 with an investment of Rs 4,080. The return on investment is 174.53%. A part of the profits was donated to charity.

Standing (L to R): Parth Khanna, Vireshwar Singh Sidhu, Mihir Kiran, Suhel Karara, Vinayak Chaudhary, Kunal Srivastava, Kartikey Luthra, Sarthak Gupta, Ashutosh Goyal, Sai Swayam Samal 50

DSMUN: Executive Board

President: Rishabh Tusnial

The way of the world

Master-in-Charge: Mr Rashid Sharfuddin

DSMUN 2013 was a major success only due to the commitment and dedication of its Executive Board.

With a plethora of new committees added to the MUN experience at Doon, the Executive Board also grew in size with 11 chairs chairing different committees.

The group was lead by the President Rishabh Tusnial whose commitment and secetariat managed to pull off the largest scale DSMUN ever.

Over the duration of the year our DSMUN was recognised as the largest MUN in the Asia region.

This again reflects the amazing work the boys have done.

Sitting (L to R): Shivan Tandon, Udbhav Agarwal, Kunal Kanodia, Mr Rashid Sharfuddin, Rishabh Tusnial, Nakul Talwar, Mahaanaryaman Scindia Standing (L to R): Utkarsh Jha, Rahul Srivastava, Ishan Sandhu, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Devesh Sharma, Arnav Joshi, Madhav Dutt

Economics Society Demand and supply

Boy-in-Charge: Vishal Tummala Master-in-Charge: Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali

The Economics Society fulfilled its purpose of inculcating interest and a spirit of research among its members this year. Some of the topics included the Indian Lok Sabha Elections 2013, inflation in India, FDI in India and many more. On the global front, the Society members analyzed the impact of Russian action in the Crimea etc.

The Econocrat had a wide circle of readers both inside and outside the School this year and also earned a reputation for being a magazine with high intellectual content and originality.

Sitting (L to R): Ayush Tripathi, Vinayak Chaudhary, Vishal Tummala, Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali, Vireshwar Singh Sidhu, Anshul Tibrewal, Sai Swayam Samal Standing (L to R): Aaryman Panwar, Sajal Bansal, Shreyansh Chedda, Harshvardhan Singh, Kartikay Garg, Vibhav Gupta 51

Junior English Debating Society Proud to propose

Girl-in-Charge: Smrithi Nair Master-in-Charge: Mr Debashish Chakrabarty

The society organized regular meetings to impart the nuances of public speaking. For the first time since its inception, the JEDS had its first girl secretary in Smrithi Nair. It helped that about 5 members of the JEDS had been trained in the WSDA, Slovenia.

The JEDS trained for inter-house debating in a new format - a combination of Oxford-style qualification rounds followed by a modified Cambridge team debating format. In the Inter-House, the four member teams had to have at least one speaker from each of the three forms - D, C and B - to ensure broad-based participation.

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Rohin Agarwal, Siddhant Jain, Kushagra Kar, Anant Jain, Parth Aggarwal, Dhruv Garg, Devang Laddha, Sparsh Agarwal, Yatharth Aggarwal Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Amol Pajni, Dhruv Johri, Ishaan Kapoor, Hitansh Nagdev, Mr Debashish Chakrabarty, Smrithi Nair, Kartavya Nagpal, Ananay Sethi, Sasyak Pattnaik Standing (L to R): Chaitanya Gulati, Armaan Verma, Aditya Vardhan Agarwal, Rishabh Dev, Siddhant Singhania, Prabhsharan Mamik, Prabhav Maheshwari, Arjun Singh, Kushagra Bansal, Vedant Mehra, Aditya Krishna

Senior English Debating Society Side opposition

Secretary: Rahul Srivastava Master-in-Charge: Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya

In 2013 the School participated in various debates including Mayo College, Scindia School, Vasant Valley School and other local debates. The highlight of the Autumn term 2013 was our triumph at the prestigious Chuckerbutty Debates.

At the Inter-House level, the speakers lived up to the challenge and presented some increasingly passionate speeches through the competition; eventually it was Jaipur House that emerged victorious.

Debating continues to attract participation and interest from many students across forMs

Sitting (L to R): Vrindam Nagpal, Sayuj Dhandhania, Kunal Kanodia, Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya, Rahul Srivastava, Udbhav Agarwal, Utkarsh Jha Standing: Arth Gupta 52

English Literary Society Literary Laureates

Master-in-Charge: Mr Debashish Chakrabarty

Over the course of 2013, the English Literary Society organized trips and tours that introduced the boys to the context and the authors that they study in class. The society also organized competitions that geared to assess the skill sets the boys have already acquired in class.

This year Dr Hammad Farooqui and Mr Manu Mehrotra escorted a group of eleven students to the Jaipur Literary Festival and spent all five days attending various sessions.

The department, in an effort to optimise various activities, has restructured the various essay and creative writing competitions. This year, the Gombar Speech Contest and the Bakhle Literature Test were conducted by the society.

Sitting (L to R): Anirudh Popli, Ms Priya Chauhan, Pranay Raj Kapoor, Mr Debashish Chakrabarty, Anshul Tibrewal, Ms Stuti Kuthiala, Vireshwar Singh Sidhu Standing (L to R): Hitansh Nagdev, Smrithi Nair, Chaitanya Gulati, Rudra Srivastava, Manan Pradhan, Tejveer Singh Kohli, Omar Chishti, Atrey Bhargava, Parth Aggarwal, Atreya Guruprasad, Devang Laddha

Film Society Take One.

Boy-in-Charge: Yashraj Agarwal Master-in-Charge: Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui

The year 2013 saw the Film Society or The Final Cut grow in not only size but also in activity. The society is proud to report that it is now actively involved in analysing movies, both new and old, and teaching boys the art of film appreciation.

Over the course of the year, many workshops were held to help the students understand this complex art.

The society also went out for a movie during the course of the year and the boys reported on the technical aspects of the movie. The experience was an enriching one for all of us.

Sitting (L to R): Jai Ahuja, Mihir Kiran, Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui, Yashraj Agarwal, Mr Dhanesh Joshi, Ritesh Shinde, Anshul Tibrewal Standing (L to R): Tejit Pabari, Uday Rathore, Aditya Dhingra, Atrey Bhargava, Aashim Bansal, Udbhav Agarwal, Madhav Bhardwaj 53

Hindi Debating Yuv Bharti Aaj ka vishaya

Master-in-Charge: Mr Devender Kumar Mishra

The Intra-School Hindi Debating League Samvaad was structured as a platform for junior boys and was a great forum for students to discuss and develop the skills of poised debating, under the guidance of senior boys.

Samvaad allowed Senior and Junior boys to come together and debate on a similar platform. This allowed the boys to maximise on their skill and display immense talent.

Sitting (L to R): Mukul Goyal, Mr Vidhukesh Vimal, Rudra Srivastava, Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui, Vansh Aggarwal, Mr Devender Kumar Mishra, Rahul Bhagchandani Standing (L to R): Vineet Puri, Tejit Pabari, Hitansh Nagdev, Madhav Bhardwaj, Anirudh Batra, Uttkarsh Agarwal, Aditya Vardhan Agarwal, Arunabh Vaish

Bharat Vani Vani ko Viram

Captain: Ritesh Shinde Master-in-Charge: Dr Arvindanabha Shukla

Bharat Vani, the Senior Hindi Debating Society, met on a regular basis throughout the year. The School Hindi Senior Debating team continued their good run on the debating circuit and won three inter-School Hindi debates, including our own Kamla Jeevan Inter-School Debates.

The Inter-house Hindi Debating competition was won by Jaipur House. Ritesh Shinde was adjudged the best speaker of the competition.

Sitting (L to R): Arnav Joshi, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Ritesh Shinde, Dr Vidhukesh Vimal, Yashraj Agarwal Standing (L to R): Vibhav Gupta, Abhinav Kejriwal, Vrindam Nagpal, Arth Gupta 54

Historical Circle Living through it

Boy-in-Charge: Karan Pratap Singh Kairon Master-in-Charge: Mr Piyush Malviya

The Historical Circle society organised many lectures and talks with the intent of inciting boys to view certain aspects of life from those who are already successful and experienced.

Students interacted with personalities from various walks of life and gained advice ranging from professional advice to revelations regarding what life outside our walls is like.

Multiple guest speakers came to campus to speak to the boys and addressed them on issues ranging from Social Service to hard-core Corporate addressing.

The boys gained immensely through every talk they attended and enjoyed some very high quality lectures.

Sitting (L to R): Utkarsh Jha, Rahul Srivastava, Udbhav Agarwal, Kunal Kanodia, Mr Piyush Malviya, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Mr Rashid Sharfuddin, Rishabh Tusnial, Mahanaaryaman Scindia, Aamir Shah, Vikramaditya Kapur Standing (L to R): Diksha Makhija, Shikha Kothari, Harshvardhan Bansal, Divyant Sapra, Raniz Bordoloi, Arnav Joshi, Sehaj Singh Jouhal, Shivan Tandon, Malini Malviya, Pritika Sandhu, Bipasha

Interact Club A greater cause

Boy-in-Charge: Apekshit Goel Master-in-Charge: Mrs Amrit Burrett

This year in school, we introduced The Interact Club (the youth wing of the Rotary Club) with the aim to provide a platform for the students interested in service to continue even after School as Rotary members.

The charter was presented to the Boy-in-Charge in a ceremony conducted in School; the aim of International Peace was celebrated by planting trees on the estate and a short candle march.

Sitting (L to R): Arush Sood, Apekshit Goel, Mrs Amrit Burrett, Gaurav Kothari, Palash Kanwar Standing (L to R): Aditya Vikram Dhingra, Sachin Mehra, Shreyansh Chheda, Shlok Jain

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Math Colloquium Calculated Risks

Master-in-Charge: Mr Sudhir Thapa

The Society visited the National Geo-spatial Data Centre where students learnt about the applications of Mathematics in mapping and finding the location of a particular point on the ground by accurate calculations of its coordinates.

The S L Sharma Memorial Junior Maths Colloquium Prize Test was held on 25th April 2013 for the students of B, C and D Form and was won by Shiven Kumar and Aneesh Agarwal.

Preparations for the Gauss Mathematics Contest organized by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada were held. Outstanding Achievement certificates for School champions were awarded to Kush Agrawal and Aneesh Agarwal for jointly securing 96% in D Form and to Aayush Chowdhry for securing 87% in C Form.

Sitting (L to R): Anirudh Batra, Dr Mona Khanna, Mr Sudhir Thapa, Saamarth Juneja, Tejit Pabari, Dr Rahul Luther, Mr Anjan Chaudhary, Ayush Tripathi Standing (L to R): Aditya Oberai, Rishi Chaudhary, Devansh Sharma, Saksham Goel, Shreyash Agarwal, Siddharth Mishra, Anuman Goel, Hitansh Nagdev, Ratnaditya Singh Chavda, Ahaan Agarwal, Shashwat Bansal

Public Speaking English Speaking up as always

Boy-in-Charge: Karan Pratap Singh Kairon Master-in-Charge: Mr Piyush Malviya

Public Speaking has always been and always will be an integral trait for any Dosco. This year the number of students interested in giving talks increased exponentially, clearly displaying the increase in popularity of the activity.

The year saw a larger range of topics being addressed beginning from a talk on the ideal Dosco to a talk on giving talks. The students put up some impressive topics for consideration and delivered beautifully in their speeches.

Not a single assembly was missed this term and every assembly offered a new theme for discussion leaving the minds of the School community wondering and reflecting.

Sitting (L to R): Bipasha, Pulkit Agarwal, Rahul Srivastava, Mr Piyush Malviya, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Madhav Dutt, Sehaj Jouhal Standing (L to R): Arth Gupta, Sarthak Gupta, Abhinav Kejriwal, Hitansh Nagdev

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Public Speaking Hindi The King’s Speech

Boy-in-Charge: Yashraj Agarwal Master-in-Charge: Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui

Hindi is one of the worlds richest and oldest languages.

The speaking is an art which is not only difficult to master but also complex to understand. This is exactly what we fought to overcome during the course of the previous year.

Hindi Pubic Speaking is a society that has gained momentum in terms of participation and conversation. The society is proud of the fact that multiple members showed interest in addressing the School in Hindi and did so successfully.

The society strived to prove the simplicity in our national language and show the School community the beauty of its communication.

Sitting (L to R) : Vatsal Agarwal, Ritesh Shinde, Yashraj Agarwal, Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui, Mihir Kiran, Shubham Agarwal, Rishabh Sharma Standing (L to R): Tejit Pabari, Eshaan Bhardwaj, Vibhav Gupta, Vansh Aggarwal, Sabhya Katia, Atrey Bhargava, Rishab Badhwar

Quiz Society Updated

Boy-in-Charge: Karan Pratap Singh Kairon Master-in-Charge: Mr Umung D Varma

The Quiz Society, led by Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, met regularly on Wednesday evenings. The 2013 Inter-House Quiz Competition was held on the last day of Trials in November, and was enthusiastically enjoyed by the entire School.

This year, The Doon School Quiz was not held, however, boys travelled to Vasant Valley School for the Inter-School Social Science Quiz, The Daly College, Indore, for the P G Miller Memorial Quiz and Welham Girls’ School for the Mrs Russell G K and Nature Quiz.

The School has been ably represented at these competitions by many senior boys such as Sarthak Katiyar, Priyanshu Raj, and Arjun Kamdar to name a few. Ecology and Nature have significantly increased in popularity with quizzing clubs at various Schools, and The Doon School Quiz Society plans to follow these topics closely in the news.

Sitting (L to R): Sarthak Katiyar, Anshul Tibrewal, Aditya Bhattacharya, Agni Raj Singh, Mr Umung D Varma, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Nakul Talwar, Husain Abbas, Aditya Bhardwaj Standing (L to R): Divij Mullick, Chinmaya Sharma, Vireshwar Sidhu, Ritvik Khare, Manan Pradhan, Dhruv Johri, Pratyaksh Parmar, Udayan Sinha, Anvay Grover, Tanay Agarwal, Nehansh Saxena 57

LAMDA Well Versed

Boy-in-Charge: Vikramaditya Kapur Master-in-Charge: Ms Priya Chauhan

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Kunal Verma, Mr Ashad Qezilbash, Anirudh Batra, Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya, Rudra Srivastava, Mr Philip Burrett, Kabir Sethi, Ms Priya Chauhan, Vikramaditya Kapur, Mr Debashish Chakrabarty, Shubham Agarwal, Ms Stuti Kuthiala, Yash Dhandhania, Mr John Xavier, Vivan Sharma, Tejit Pabari Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Advitiya Goyal, Fateh Raj Khanna, Ratnaditya Singh Chavda, Aakash Mohan, Rishit Thakur, Viksit Verma, Aru Vashisht Maratha, Aviraj Singh Machre, Raghav Dalmia, Pratyush Dugar, Shivendra Singh, Talin Aggarwal, Sumer Vaidya, Siddheswar Hans, Jashan Kalra, Amol Pajni, Rahul Garg, Karan Dhillon, Shreyash Agarwal, Agastya Shetty, Yash Killa Sitting 3rd Row (L to R): Ishan Jhawar, Samarth Bhardwaj, Ishan Roy, Ishaan Mauli Mishra, Dhruv Gupta, Siddharth Dwivedi, Aditya Kapoor, Devang Laddha, Darsh Garg, Sanidhya Mittal, Prabhav Maheshwari, Shiven Dewan, Divyansh Pandey, Ritik Chamola, Raghav Grover, Siddhant Jain, Rishabh Goel, Kushagra Kar, Amogh Tiwari, Mahir Kasewa, Aditya Oberai, Devansh Sharma Sitting 4th Row (L to R): Krishna Goyal, Lakshman Santhanam, Yash Gupta, Abhyanshu Uttkarsh, Aditya Saboo, Aditya Gupta, Tarush Bansal, Milind Khemka, Gaurav Bhandari, Shaurya Jain, Harshit Bansal, Ojas Kharabanda, Kunal Gupta, Yash Dewan, Ahan Gupta, Dhairya Rastogi, Hamza Hussain, Yatharth Gupta, Rishabh Dev, Kriti Luther, Anant Mohan, Shashwat Gandhi Sitting 5th Row (L to R): Kabir Kochar, Mubaraq Jay Mehta, Aditya Vikram Singh, Samarveer Mundi, Anish Bhide, Gunit Mittal, Stanzin Deskyong, Zorawar Mehta, Ribhu Raj Khan, Yaduraj Rathi, Utsav Sharma, Rohan Agarwal, Dhruv Garg, Siddhant Singhania, Dhruv Pais, Arnav Gupta, Akshat Jha, Aditya Verma Sitting 6th Row (L to R): Riyan Aggarwal, Shashwat Bansal, Armaan Verma, Parth Aggarwal, Anant Jain, Dhruv Jindal, Harsh Dewan, Sparsh Agarwal, Anuman Goel, Mahip Agarwal, Agastya Bhargava, Kushagra Bansal, Devansh Rawat, Ranvijay Singh, Deepak Dhiman, Aayush Chaudahry, Kanishk Kanodia, Kanav Agarwal, Abhiraj Lamba, Aneesh Choudhary

The Doon School has been offering LAMDA Communication Examinations as an option to students since 2005. Every year, over 300 students take the LAMDA exam. The masters of the English Department train the boys for the various exams and grades.

In the last exam held in February 2013, a whopping 71% attained Merits, 19% gained Distinctions and only 7% had a plain pass, while two students failed to clear the exam. This has been one of the best LAMDA results in its history at the Doon School. This year about 150 students took the exam in August.

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Science Society Caution: Scientists at Work

Boy-in-Charge: Jai Khanna Master-in-Charge: Mr Vivek Kumar

The Science Society and Nature Club organized a number of activities, which were held during the active terms of the year (within and outside the School).

These included: Visit to Science City, Kapurthala Wild Life Quiz By WII, Dehradun Moth Trapping presentation in the Campus Photographic exhibition on National Science Day Wild Life Week Celebration Dipanker Sen Quiz Biotechnology Quest at CMS, Lucknow Inter-House Shanti Swarup Essay Writing Competition The School has worked on broader aspects of joining hands with other associations and NGO’s for training the boys.

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj, Mr Chit Ranjan Kagdee, Jai Khanna, Mr Vivek Kumar, Arjun Kamdar, Dr Srinivas Swamy, Ayush Tripathi Standing (L to R): Riyan Agarwal, Pritish Dugar, Ananay Sethi, Azan Brar, Kanishk Kanodia, Advait Ganapathy

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DSMUN 2013

Secretary General: Kunal Kanodia Master-in-Charge: Mr Rashid Sharfuddin

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Devansh Agarwal, Jaivir Puri, Shlok Jain, Ritvik Khare, Dhruv Ahuja, Varun Sehgal, Prakarsh Gupta, Ahaan Gupta, Samarth Bhardwaj, Madhav Mall, Yash Killa, Chaitanya Kediyal, Vathsal Gupta, Siddarth Jain, Kanav Agarwal, Ashvin Solanki, Vrindam Nagpal, Abhayraj Jain, Arnaav Bhavnani, Rishavraj Das Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Kartikay Garg, Aditya Bhardwaj, Yash Dhandhania, Rishabh Agarwal, Jayadityavir Singh, Tejveer Singh Kohli, Ranveer Modi, Rahil Chamola, Chinmaya Sharma, Sasyak Pattnaik, Dhruv Johri, Rishi Raj Deva, Vivan Sharma, Bipasha Dutta, Agasthya Shetty, Kartikey Luthra, Yaseer Iqbal, Sachin Mehra, Gaurav Kothari, Sajal Bansal Sitting 3rd Row (L to R): Krishna Bhargava, Rishab Badhwar, Nihal Dhillon, Arjun Sharma, Kartikeya Jain, Harshvardhan Singh, Pulkit Agarwal, Siddharth Sarin, Shubham Agarwal, Arush Sood, Palash Kanwar, Divyansh Goel, Sartaj Singh Sidhu, Ashutosh Goel, Aditya Dhingra, Jai Singh Yadav, Mihir Kiran, Arjun Kamdar, Ritesh Devnani, Suryansh Nevetia, Anirudh Gupta Sitting 4th Row (L to R): Akhil Ranjan, Sahir Chaudhary, Navraaj Randhawa, Suhel Karara, Arunabh Utkarsh, Farhan Anis, Arnav Goel, Pranaj Raj Kapoor, Aamir Shah, Divjant Sapra, Vikramadtiya Kapur, Anshul Tibrewal, Sehaj Singh Jouhal, Roniz Bordoloi, Harshvardhan Bansal, Waseefullah Sherwani, Aditya Bhattacharya, Jai Lanba, Siddhant Gupta, Prabnur Bal, Yash Upadhyay, Arth Gupta Sitting 5th Row (L to R): Sayuj Dhandhania, Shivan Tandon, Madhav Dutt, Mahaanaryaman Scindia, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Rishabh Tusnial, Mr Rashid Sharfuddin, Kunal Kanodia, Rahul Srivastava, Arnav Joshi, Udbhav Agarwal, Devesh Sharma, Utkarsh Jha

DSMUN 2013 was everything that we wanted it to be, and much more. The frenzied activity over the course of many months finally culminated on the evening of the eighteenth. From student officials running around with chit pads (containing both diplomatic and rather undiplomatic messages in the case of the HGA), to chairpersons strutting around the campus in suits, the run up to DSMUN 2013 invited so much excitement that it almost seemed to have become a gala event. The magnificent tent which covered the Old Basketball Courts added to the growing anticipation in the first few weeks of this term. As the rains continued to intensify and everyone from the AV squad to the DJs at the Delegate Dance began to work harder, one could sense that DSMUN was around the corner.

This year, owing to more than double the number of participants that it had attracted, DSMUN began on Friday morning, instead of the evening, thus giving delegates and their chairpersons many more hours of constructive time for debate and deliberation. As the Hospitality Heads braved sleep and entered with delegates, reality began to sink in. It had started. There was a short opening ceremony in the morning wherein a welcome note by the 60

Secretary-General and presentation of gavels to all chairpersons was made.

The first day of DSMUN 2013 saw intense discussion and debate unfold across committees, with crisis simulations and resolution making emerging in a positive manner. The United Nations Security Council saw discussions intensify over the status of North Korea and being a rather contentious topic, extremely heated debate emerged over the same. The Historical General Assembly simulated the United Nations General Assembly of 1958, when a solution to the Taiwan Straits Crisis had to be reached. Interesting proposals and solutions to the conflict were put forth and allegations and accusations continued to fly through the course of committee proceedings. A particularly interesting committee was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – Shanghai Cooperation Organization Peace Summit, 2020 which was a futuristic committee where the world is on the brink of a third world war. The two rival blocs of the SCO and the NATO came together to resolve the crisis and although in the end they were unable to do so, the quality of debate in this committee was worth appreciating. The Special Political and Decolonization Committee debated on and accepted the State of Palestine as a United Nations member state after much contention. The United Nations Environment Program discussed the harmful effects of pesticides and although it was hampered by the fact that many delegates were first time MUNners, important decisions were made nevertheless. The G20 summit called upon world leaders to resolve the growing crisis of Unemployment, while the Disarmament and International Security Committee talked about the dangers of proliferation of nuclear weapons. The Joint Crisis Cabinets of Iran and Iraq, set during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 saw delegates vying for war, not peace: a role that can sometimes be much tougher to put on. The Human Rights Council saw emotionally heated debate on birth control and the rights of women and emerged the most successful committee at DSMUN in terms of solutions agreed upon and resolutions and working papers passed.

The Opening ceremony in the evening was graced by India’s Minister for External affairs Salman Khurshid as Chief Guest and Wajahat Habibullah, the Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities. Their speeches and words of encouragement were particularly inspiring and the high regard in which they were held was evident in the manner in which most delegates’ jaws dropped open when they saw them doing the rounds of different committee sessions. The second day of the conference saw longer working hours but everyone was kept going by the thought of the Delegate Dance in the evening. After a fantastic dance and dinner, where intensive lobbying took place too, we geared for the final day of the conference.

In the morning, there was one last formal committee session. After most resolutions passed (or failed!) across different committees, photographs were taken, placards were signed, and contact details were exchanged. The General Assembly was convened later in the day with the aim of allowing representation of the BRICS nations at the United Nations Security Council as a permanent member. An unexpected crisis unfolded, which not only caught delegates off guard but also had an unexpected twist at the ending.

No sooner had the General Assembly been dissolved following the passing of the resolution, the Closing Ceremony was upon us. Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Rural Development was the Chief Guest for the Ceremony and invited a question answer session from the audience. His opinions and remarks regarding the United Nations and the power of the youth were appreciated. The chairpersons of various committees were invited to give out their awards and talk about the manner in which their committees had progressed and the way in which they had come to mean a lot to them. As the Closing ceremony ended, DSMUN 2013 was declared officially closed. With 42 schools from six countries across Asia-Pacific having participated at the conference, DSMUN was India’s largest high school MUN conference, in terms of number of schools participating. It embodied the principles of the United Nations in terms of idealism and a zeal for peace, but it also embodied – perhaps more importantly – the change that our generation can help realize.

I sincerely hope that you will choose to grace us with your presence at Chandbagh next year.

Kunal Kanodia Secretary General 2013

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co-curricular programme Curriculum: Spare Time Activities

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Aeromodelling Sky’s the limit

Boy-in-Charge: Jairaj Sadana Master-in-Charge: Mr Ashish Dean

This year our club started with only a few boys, but this exciting and challenging activity motivated many Doscos to opt for it. Mr Arvind Gupta, a dedicated and enthusiastic Aeromodelling professional, visited the School and gave interesting lessons to the boys. Rubber-powered aircraft were built and some of them were exhibited during the induction programme of the D Form.

The senior boys were given the challenging task of repairing and flying remote controlled planes. In the Autumn term, the boys were allowed to begin using remote controlled airplanes.

The boys of Aeromodelling STA visited Ambala Air Force Station in August. In this trip the boys were made aware of the expertise required to fly Jaguars and they also had a chance to fly planes in simulators.

Sitting (L to R): Arjun Singh, Nirvan Dogra, Mr Ashish Dean, Jairaj Sadana, Samrat Rawat, Archit Bhargava Standing (L to R): Aviraj Singh Machre, Raj Sankala, Siddhant Singhania, Aryan Chhabra, Dhairya Rastogi, Kanav Agarwal, Ranvijay Singh, Yash Gupta, Raghav Dalmia

Chess Contemplating the move

Boy-in-Charge: Sarthak Gupta Master-in-Charge: Mr Chit Ranjan Kagdee

Chess as an activity in School has flourished over the years. Today, the students get a chance to participate in a plethora of tournaments.

In August 2013 two of our boys participated in the Council’s DCSA Inter School Boys & Girls Chess Tournament, which was organized by Ann Mary School, Dehradun. In the Junior and Senior category, Vedant Mehra and Shaurya Agarwal reached the quarter-finals in their categories respectively.

The School hosted The 4th Shriram Bansidhar Inter-School Chess Tournament in August. The Doon School A Team emerged victorious in the tournament. The team members consisted of Sarthak Gupta, Shaurya Agarwal, Parth Khanna and Anuman Goel.

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Vaibhav Chandak, Aru Vashisht Maratha, Rajveer Singh Kochar, Devang Laddha, Mudit Bajaj, Rishabh Goel, Rishit Thakur, Devansh Sharma, Chaitanya Kediyal, Nikhil Bansal Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Akshat Jha, Shreshth Mehra, Vatsal Bora, Sanjeet Suhag, Mr Arvind Dethe, Sarthak Gupta, Mr Chit Ranjan Kagdee, Parth Khanna, Udbhav Agarwal, Nikunj Agarwal, Anuman Goel Standing (L to R): Shreyash Agarwal, Viraaj Gaur, Anirudh Batra, Tanmay Nautiyal, Atharva Shukla, Siddharth Mishra, Kunal Gupta, Mihir Gupta, Vedant Mehra

In the Inter-House Chess Tournament, held in October, Oberoi House emerged victorious in all three categories. Sarthak Gupta won the Individual Chess Trophy while Chaitanya Agarwal stood Runner-up.

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Cooking Masterchef Chandbagh

Master-in-Charge: Dr Ritu Bahl Mohan

The junior boys enthusiastically come together to experiment with their creative skills and learn how to manage a kitchen. Whether it is decorating canapĂŠs, making round paranthas or taking turns to beat batters for a delicious cake, their delight at testing their skills is always evident.

They take cooking very seriously and incorporate the instructions given to them rigorously. It is not just the work that is important, but the work ethic that make a good cook.

Hence, they enjoy expeditions to various restaurants as it gives them an insight into the intensive process that professional chefs go through.

Sitting (L to R): Ishan Roy, Utsav Dutt Sharma, Dr Ritu Bahl Mohan, Divij Kapoor, Divyansh Pandey Standing (L to R): Mahip Agarwal, Aditya Vikram Singh, Prakhar Dwivedi, Yaduraj Rathi, Kushagra Kar

Cycling Wheelie

Boy-in-Charge: Jai Singh Yadav Master-in-Charge: Mr Manu Mehrotra

Cycling remains one of the most sought-after STAs in School. Five new cycles have been purchased over the course of this year and the regularity of cycling trips outside the campus has seen a significant increase.

A large number of SC leavers go for cycling with the Master-in-Charge in the cantonment area to cycle and relax. It helps them de-stress at the time of the examinations. The boys first cycle inside the estate and later on go outside escorted with masters.

The STA has gone from strength to strength under the able leadership of Jai Singh Yadav and his able team.

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Darsh Garg, Kabir Kochar, Aaditya Gupta, Milind Khemka, Ratnaditya Singh Chavda, Hamza Hussain, Gunit Mittal, Deepak Dhiman Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Vatsal Agrawal, Kartikeya Kardam, Vedant Agrawal, Mrs Meeta Sharma, Jai Singh Yadav, Mr Manu Mehrotra, Ayuushman Aroraa, Raghav Bansal, Arnav Kumar Standing (L to R): Vivek Vishwanathan, Arpit Chaddha, Jai Lanba, Naman Lodha, Tanvir Singh Bal, Shivinderjit Cheema, Yashvardhan Meel, Aryaman Panwar, Ashvin Solanki 65

Design and Technology Aesthetics and more

Boy-in-Charge: Chaitanya Fatehpuria Master-in-Charge: Mr Ankur Khare

This year we employed the ‘Wow’ effect, which helped the boys to visualize and to think out of the box. Apart from being a subject, Design and Technology facilities were available for boys to use in their spare time in the evenings. We also saw an increase in the number of students who came here for their projects.

The design process makes this one of the most popular areas of product development at The Doon School. The boys design and produce products in wood, metal and acrylic. They used machines like metal lathes, wood turning lathes, jigsaws, etc.

The boys produced some amazing pieces of work such as multipurpose sittings, multipurpose chairs, coffee units, and some very creative lights.

Sitting (L to R): Chaitanya Fatehpuria, Mr Ankur Khare, Vibhav Gupta Standing (L to R): Rahul Das, Ahaan Sanjay Gupta

Doon Poets Society Beauty in words

Boy-in-Charge: Adarsh Lanka Masters-in-Charge: Mr Devender Kumar Mishra, Mr John Xavier

There were over 300 hundred products made by boys this year.

Poetry is an art form that has its roots etched into many societies. At Doon poetry has only recently taken stead with more and more students displaying their interest in this art.

This year for the Doon Poets Society was a unique one. From visiting poets to our own students, we made it a point to hold as many recitals as we could over the course of the year.

Young poets were seen emerging in the form of Hitansh Nagdev and Deepak Dhiman. Our senior boys were no less with many of them publishing poems for The Weekly and maintaining blogs. Boys were able to make poetry on some debatable topics and explored new themes.

All in all, poetry at Doon has a bright future and we hope we can facilitate any hidden talent in the boys.

Sitting (L to R): Vrindam Nagpal, Mr John Xavier, Lanka Adarsh, Mr Devender Kumar Mishra, Rishabh Sharma Standing (L to R): Deepak Dhiman, Priyanshu Raj, Arnaav Bhavnani, Arjun Kapoor, Tejveer Kohli, Ritzy Rajaswi, Hitansh Nagdev 66

Doon School Stock Exchange The upward curve

Boy-in-Charge: Anshul Tibrewal Master-in-Charge: Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali

A number of fruitful and purposeful meetings were held during the year to discuss issues that had relevance for global stock markets. Discussions ranged from the implication of the Ukraine crisis on the global stock market to the impact of the upcoming Indian national elections and on the variations of Sensex and Nifty. Students identified the constellation of forces which were reviving the American economy after several quarters of sluggish growth. In some meetings, students were asked to conduct prior research on a particular topic and then share their findings with fellow members. Collaborative learning is an important aspect of the Doon Stock Exchange.

There was fierce competition among students for the rankings. Certificates were awarded to meritorious students. Ayush Sarawgi claimed the first position, while Swayam Samal and Yogesh Agarwal came second and third respectively.

Sitting (L to R): Vatsal Goenka, Sai Swayam Samal, Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali, Anshul Tibrewal, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Vinayak Chaudhary, Shreyansh Cheddha Standing (L to R): Ayush Sarawgi, Devang Mehra, Vireshwar Sidhu, Ishaan Kapoor, Sajal Bansal, Manan Pradhan, Shlok Jain, Yash Killa

Electronics & Robotics Creating and converging

Boy-in-Charge: Sabhya Katia Master-in-Charge: Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj

This year we saw a drastic increase in the number of boys interested in the STA. The Doon School participated in the Indian Robotics Olympiad (IRO) 2013 (regional competition) held at Ghaziabad. The boys who participated in the competition included Sabhya Katia, Pranjalya Shukla, Sanjeet Suhag, Sabharsh Singh Sidhu, Ayush Sarawgi and Bhuvan Verma.

Sabhya Katia continued as the Boy-in-Charge for Robotics for the second year. Sabhya conducted a one-day workshop to train B and C Form boys in designing and programming the robots.

Sitting(L to R): Pranjalya Shukla, Sabharsh Singh Sidhu, Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj, Sabhya Katia, Ayush Sarawgi Standing (L to R): Yatharth Gupta, Eshaan Bhardwaj, Rishabh Dev, Kanishk Kanodia, Kushagra Bansal, Anvay Grover, Armaan Verma , Devansh Rawat, Siddhant Jain 67

HAM Radio Over and out

Boy-in-Charge: Pranay Raj Kapoor Master-in-Charge: Mr Manish Pant

Classes were being held for the HAM radio operator license exam throughout the year. This boys showcased a keen interest in the activity and appeared for the license exam.

Twenty-five boys applied for this year’s examination held on 30th August 2013 in Delhi. The number of boys joining this has been increasing year after year, reflecting the interest in the boys towards the activity.

A guest speaker, Dr Ram Mohan, Director of NAIR, Hyderabad, conducted a three-day workshop on amateur radio, its advantages and the handling of radio sets.

Apart from this, during STA hours, students were also taught the complete functioning of the radio and Morse key.

Sitting (L to R): Rishikant Sharma, Ashutosh Goyal, Mr Manish Pant, Pranay Raj Kapoor, Amal Agarwal Standing (L to R): Manan Dadhania, Yash Mishra, Kartikay Garg

Junior Chemists Breaking bad

Master-in-Charge: Mrs Meeta Sharma

Boys experimented on pollutants in the Bindal River water, the presence of insecticides and pesticides in fruits and vegetables, the setting time of cement, the content analysis of cold drinks and the shelf life of wine. Processes involved in chemistry such as crystallization, suction-filtration, and distillation were demonstrated.

The senior and junior chemists were also exposed to the electroplating plant in Paltan Bazaar, Dehradun.

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Aaryan Singhla, Mahir Kasewa, Sanidhya Mittal, Aditya Kapoor, Arnav Gupta Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Pragun Agarwal, Kartik Malik, Tanay Agarwal, Mrs Meeta Sharma, Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian, Atreya Guruprasad, Shikhar Trivedi, Ahaan Agarwal Standing (L to R): Aditya Saboo, Talin Agarwal, Anish Bhide, Shaurya Jain, Ishaan Garg, Mohammad Zaid Bin Shameem, Dhruv Gupta, Shiven Dewan 68

Motor Mechanics Top gear

Boy-in-Charge: Shubham Agarwal Master-in-Charge: Mr Praveen Dwivedi

In 2013, STA boys were made to do a lot of practical work, which included unloading of engines and dismantling the entire motorcycle parts from the body, cleaning and fine-tuning of engines, opening of wheels, wheel replacement and understanding the concepts of two-wheel and four-wheel segments.

A few of the boys were trained on wheels so as to familiarise them with the actual driving experience under strict supervision. The STA plans to collaborate with the Art School for car design activity where boys will give shape to their dream cars with the help of clay, wood and other materials.

Sitting (L to R): Sehaj Singh Jouhal, Mr Praveen Dwivedi, Shubham Agarwal, Karan Sethy Standing (L to R): Aaditya Shah, Akarsh Tibrewal, Agastya Shetty, Raihan Rajiv Vadra, Aditya Oberai

Photography Capturing the moment

Boy-in-Charge: Orijit Chatterjee Master-in-Charge: Mr Mrigank Pandey

The Photography saw a significant amount of interest displayed by boys across all age groups.

This year the photography STA organised two exhibitions: “Kaleidoscope” and “Expressions” with a total of 119 photographs take by 17 students displayed at these exhibitions.

The STA purchased an array of new equipment such as a Mark 3 Cannon Camera, LED Lights, Light Meters, Reflectors, Backgrounds, etc.

The senior members of the society in consultation with the Master-in-Charge have worked on making the STA more organized in terms of functioning and training. All members are allotted events to photograph to ensure that we can make a complete digital bank for all School activities. The Boys-in-Charge has worked to make Photography one of the most sought after STAs on campus.

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ashad Qezilbash, Orijit Chatterjee, Mr Mrigank Pandey, Aditya Dhingra, Mr Vivek Kumar Standing (L to R): Aakash Mohan, Pranav Kothiwal, Amal Agarwal, Ashwath Madhok, Manraj Singh Sra 69

Scholar’s Cup

Boy-in-Charge: Ishaan Kapoor

Spreading intellect

Master-in-Charge: Ms Priya Chauhan

After last year’s success at the Scholar’s Cup, we decided to start a new STA to help boys build on their capabilities and nurture even more successful results in the future.

The STA was a success with more and more boys showing interest in the competition. This year more than half the participating teams from Doon qualified for the International round which is a great tribute to the boys hard work.

We hope to be able to bring up the junior forms and help them improve their speaking and writing skills for future competitions. The STA feels certain of improving results over the years to come.

Sitting (L to R): Ananay Sethi, Ms Priya Chauhan, Ishaan Kapoor, Ms Anamika Ghose, Jaideep Gill Standing (L to R): Riyan Agarwal, Abhiraj Lamba, Anirudh Popli, Aditya Vardhan Agarwal, Hitansh Nagdev, Bharat Hari Chaudhary

Senior Chemists Ministry of Magic

Boy-in-Charge: Ashish Verma Master-in-Charge: Mrs Malavika Bhatt

An educational trip to Pushpa Gujral Science City, Jalandhar, was organized. This trip fired the imagination of our young scientists and fostered a spirit of enquiry and exploration. The subject areas covered at the facility were numerous.

They had a hands-on experience of electrolysis processes and appreciated the cottage industry whereby the School trophies are plated with superior metals like nickel and silver.

Sitting (L to R): Ayush Tripathi, Siddharth Pahuja, Ashish Verma, Mrs Malavika Bhatt, Suyash Raj Shivam, Jai Ahuja, Harshvardhan Singh Standing (L to R): Guruansh Banta Singh, Hussain Abbas, Vibhav Maheshwari, Kartikeya Jain, Prabnur Singh Bal, Sarthak Srijan Katiyar, Shrey Raj Kapoor

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Yoga Fitness First

Boy-in-Charge: Arnav Joshi Master-in-Charge: Mr Kirti Pal Singh Tomar

In 2013, the boys did a wonderful job of highlighting the importance of Yoga to the underprivileged boys and girls at the School’s Panchayat Ghar. Apart from gaining proficiency in the different asanas the boys had a splendid time working with the under-privileged children.

In December 2013, the Yoga Department hosted a “National Yoga Conference” at Doon, which was a great success. All speakers were professionals in their respective fields.

In the forthcoming year we are planning to host a ‘Global Yoga Conference’ which will be held in December 2013 at Chandbagh. Boys in yoga are poised to work hard and look forward to introducing many other activities to spread yoga education for the betterment of our School as well as our society.

Sitting (L to R): Hitansh Nagdev, Utkarsh Agarwal, Yash Kuldeep Mishra, Mr Kirti Pal Singh Tomar, Arnav Joshi, Vibhav Gupta, Yash Killa Standing (L to R): Eshaan Bhardwaj, Dhruv Garg, Rishabh Dev, Deepak Dhiman, Aakash Mohan, Siddhant Jain, Yatharth Gupta

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IAYP: Awards Empowering all

Boy-in-Charge: Madhav Dutt Master-in-Charge: Mr Skand Bali

In March, the School hosted Mr Kapil Bhalla, The National Director of IAYP. He shared the vision and future path of IAYP and the School’s contribution to the same.

The Doon School has taken the IAYP programme to Government Schools in Punjab and Uttarakhand.

Mr Skand Bali went to Sagar School, Alwar, to conduct the International “T4T” course (trainers’ workshop). Mr Bali was a co-presenter with Mr Rob Oliphant (Programme Manager, Asia Pacific).

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Shubham Agarwal, Mr Manish Pant, Madhav Dutt, Mr Skand Bali, Devesh Sharma, Mr Manu Mehrotra, Guruansh Singh Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Yogesh Agarwal, Vedant Agarwal, Lakshya Varshney, Codanda Chengappa, Parth Khanna, Yasharth Goyal, Rishith Agarwal, Ayush Sarawgi, Anvay Grover Sitting 3rd Row (L to R): Yogesh Agarwal, Vedant Agarwal, Lakshya Varshney, Codanda Chengappa, Parth Khanna, Yasharth Goyal, Rishith Agarwal, Ayush Sarawgi, Anvay Grover

IAYP: Blazer Inspiring all

A large number of boys completed their Awards this year:

Enrolments Awards Bronze 149 81 Silver 110 38 Gold 53 11 Blazer 6 TOTAL 312 136 IAYP blazer is for those gaining all three awards.

The Doon School (Sponsored) – YES Centre (Underprivileged Children)

Enrolments Awards Bronze 71 19 Silver 13 Gold 2 TOTAL 86 19

Sitting (L to R): Mr Manish Pant, Madhav Dutt, Mr Skand Bali, Apekshit Goel, Mr Manu Mehrotra Standing (L to R): Vatsal Goenka, Devesh Sharma, Sehaj Singh Jouhal, Shubham Agarwal

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Student Exchange

Round and back again

Outgoing list of boys for the Student Exchange Program 2013 Atharva Shree Matta Divyansh Goel Pulkit Agarwal Yuvan Kumar Suyash Shivam Anant Singh Mann Arjun Sharma Sachin Mehra Armaan Imam Sayuj Dhandania Aashim Bansal Siddarth Sarin Mihir Kiran Jai Ahuja Ayush Tripathi Raghav Bansal Arush Sood Sidharth Pahuja Anmol Jain Ashutosh Goyal Ritvik Kar Guruansh Singh Josh Pasricha Sudhansh Agarwal Aditya Gupta Yuvraj Nathani Gaurav Kothari Arjun Kamdar Zayaan Khodaji Sarthak Gupta Akshay Sarawgi Abhishek Pai Anubhav Agarwal

Ballarat Grammar School, Victoria, Australia Churchie School, Brisbane, Australia Deerfield Academy, USA Eton College, UK Groton School, USA Herlufsholm Skole, Denmark Hutchins School, Tasmania, Australia Hutchins School, Tasmania, Australia Kings Academy, Jordan Kings Academy, Jordan Kings School, Sydney Kings School, Sydney Lakefield College School, Ontario, Canada Markham College, Peru Merchiston Castle School, Edingurgh, UK Millfield School, UK Millfield School, UK Raffeles Institute, Singapore Raffles Institute, Singapore Regents School, Thailand Salem Germany Scotch College, Australia Scotch College, Australia St Andrew’s College, South Africa St Andrew’s College, South Africa St Edwards School, UK St Edwards School, UK St Philips’ College, Alice Spring, Australia St Sthithian College, South Africa Stiftung Louisenlund, Germany Stowe School UK The Armidale School, Australia Westminster School, Adelaide, Australia

Abhishek Pai The Armidale School Australia "Exchange was an experience, where I felt at home; a home that my feet may have left, but not my Heart."

Akshay Sarawgi Stowe School UK “A very enriching and intriguing experience, something I’ll cherish for my entire life.”

Anant Singh Maan Herlufsholm Skole Denmark ‘’All experiences should be accepted. All wines should be tasted. Some should only be sipped, while others, the whole bottle should be drunk’’.

Arjun Kamdar St Philips’ College Australia “Exchange was like the Uluru; what meets the eye is just a fraction of what it actually is.”

Armaan Imam Kings Academy Jordan “A culturally and spiritually benefitting excursion. Be it visiting Petra or swimming in the Dead Sea, each moment has been forever etched in my mind.”

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Ayush Tripathi

Sarthak Gupta

Merchiston Castle School UK

Stiftung Louisenlund Germany

“My exchange to Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland was filled with new experiences, an amazing campus and amazing new friends.”

“I got to transform my personality there. It was an experience of inexpressible joy and enlightenment. A time that will be forever treasured!”

Josh Pasricha

Sudhansh Agarwal

Scotch College Australia

St Andrew’s College South Africa

“Whoever made the world went to a lot of trouble, and it would be downright rude not to see as much of it as possible.”

“An experience which made me selfless and introduced me to varied culture of Africa.”

Pulkit Agarwal Deerfield Academy USA

Yuvraj Nathani St Edwards School UK

“Two months that took me from New Delhi to New York, from Cricket to Baseball, from Doon to Deerfield, and never let the heart yearn for the return.”

“What I prized most about my experience at Teddies was the fact that I had total freedom- to do what I wished to do and to be the person I wanted to be.“

Ritvik Kar

Atharva Matta

Schule Schloß Salem Germany

Ballarat Grammar School Australia

“Salem is definitely a defining moment of my life.

An experience that is deeply etched into my memories.”

“Australia: a place for everything and everything in its place.”

Sachin Mehra Hutchins School Australia

Guruansh Singh

“One doesn’t get a chance to visit a place like Tasmania very often, but once you go, you’ll make sure you do it again.”

Scotch College Australia “Because Scotch isn’t a place you leave, it’s an emotion you carry with you.”

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Expedition

Achieving greater heights

Dhomdaar Kandi Pass Master-in-Charge Dr Arvindanabha Shukla

Sitting (L to R): Mr Shrey Nagalia, Mr Pankaj Joshi, Zorawar Singh, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Syed Mohammad Amaan Kazmi, Mr Manu Mehrotra, Paramdeep Singh Standing (L to R): Amartya T Bhowmick, Vallavi Shukla, Harshvardhan Singh

Thar Desert

Sitting (L to R): Sidharth Pahuja, Aditya Dhingra, Mr Pankaj Joshi, Akshay Sarawgi, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Sai Swayam Samal, Aditya Malik Standing (L to R): Tushaar Sharma, Rahul Das, Hamza Khan, Prabhsharan Mamik, Atrey Bhargava, Utkarsh Agarwal

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Dhomdaar Kandi Pass On the first day of the summer break, a ten member party comprising Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Mr Manu Mehrotra, Mr Shrey Nagalia, Vallavi Shukla, Harshvardhan Bansal, Amaan Kazmi, Paramdeep Singh, Zorawar Singh, Amartya Bhowmick, and Harshvardhan Singh left to do what The Doon School has been doing most successfully for the past 78 years: climbing mountains. To be more precise, our goal was to climb a pass, the Dhomdaar Kandi Pass that stands most majestically in the midst of the Garhwal Himalayas, 5607 meters (18,395 ft.) above sea level. It is called a Pass because it joins two of Garhwal Himalayas’ most beautiful peaks – Bandar Poonch and Swargrohini.

If one were to ask the expedition members why they decided to give up 12 days of their holidays, trek for hours on end with heavy rucksacks on their backs, sleep in tents with bugs as companions and hard stones and snow as mattresses, just to climb a mountain, one might not receive any logical answer. But then, why did the first man decide to go into unchartered waters? Why did he leave the secure banks of rivers and cross deserts? Why did he leave everything behind and go into space? The answer lies within us. As a species, we are hardwired to go where others do not want to, where it is difficult, where we know that reaching would require more courage than logic, and more character than comfort. I guess each one of us had his/her own reason to go for this climb, but whatever the reason, one thing was sure, it was not going to be easy.

After spending the first night in Harsil, the second day required us to trek for 5 hours before reaching our first camp- a bunch of Gujjar Huts tucked away at the tail end of the mountains that were going to be our friends and foe for the next few days. On the same day the party had its first casualty. Unfortunately, Harshvardhan had picked up a rather bad stomach bug and was forced to return home. Fortunately though, the decision to send an unwell member back turned out to be the correct one, for the third day greeted us with some treacherous scree patches and moraines. Thanks to the expert guidance of Vasudev ji, one of School’s most trusted mountain guides and experts for over 25 years, and his son Anil, we all reached safely and camped next to a beautiful stream at Siana Gad. The same routine was to follow for the next four days. Each day we would have to start early and trek for long hours to reach the next camp. The treks themselves were full of small little adventures and funny incidents, whether it be Amaan Kazmi trying to catch some potential dinner in the form of rabbits or birds with a kukri in his hands, or Mr Mehrotra, despite all his skills of calculating trajectories and velocities, throwing his shoe in the middle of the stream rather than the other side. As we trekked to higher altitudes, we had to be very careful about a few things; the most important being our water intake.

We would have to constantly drink water so that the oxygen level in our bodies remained high. Moreover, the process of acclimatization was given due importance and as a result, by the time we reached the base camp on Day 7, we were all in good shape and ready for the ensuing climb. Moreover, Anil, who is an expert climber, taught us some important mountaineering skills that included jumaring, rappelling, river crossing and rope work. Once we set up the base camp at the foot of the pass, we also had important lessons in the art of snow climbing including front point climbing, the use of the ice axe, securing oneself properly and self-arrest. While the activities in themselves were highly enjoyable, we also knew that they could be potentially life saving and we all took them very seriously. It is not easy to climb a mountain, and the last thing one should do is climb one unprepared.

Finally, in the wee hours of Day 8, we all set out, equipped and ready for the final climb. Starting at five in the morning, after a restless night to climb a mountain at an altitude that affords less oxygen requires more perseverance than strength. Every step is a fight to go on. And on we climbed, slowly but surely, digging our toes deep into the snow and telling ourselves that with every step taken we are closer to the top. After much struggle and team work, two masters and five students reached the top of the pass at around nine in the morning.

Needless to say, the view from the top justified every bit of hard work we had done over the past eight days. Standing at the top, sweeping our gaze over the peaks of Bandar Poonch, Black Peak, Yellow Tooth, Swargrohini, Lankhaga and other Indian and Chinese peaks, we felt as if we were in the company of the Gods. The world seemed a vast field of snow with giant mountains stretching out till as far as the eye could see. In those moments of pristine purity, with an azure sky above us and the innocent, unspoilt white earth below, we stood and gave homage to the Mountain for letting us climb it. Maybe someday someone might mention the Dhomdaar Kandi Pass as one of the places in the Garhwal Himalayas. And we will respond by saying “Oh yes, we were there, at the top, and the world was our oyster”.

Vallavi Shukla (152 Oberoi House)

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Thar Desert Expedition Seventeen boys and three masters reached Bikaner on the 13th of December, determined to face all the hardships that the unforgiving Thar Desert could throw at them. Upon arrival everyone checked into the famous Raj Vilas Palace, and soon after lunch we went to see the old and reputed Bikaneri Fort. The sheer size of it took us by surprise. We saw the old and rugged rooms in the palace as well as the newly built museum downstairs. The scenic beauty along with the doves and pigeons flying over our heads added to the beauty and royalty of the place. At night we went and had good Rajasthani food-Dal Batti Choorma. With curiosity building up it seemed almost impossible to sleep, but our wearied bodies soon got the better of us. Next day we started our trek at around 11 a.m., teeming with enthusiasm and led by our mentors and adventure aficionados, Dr Shukla and Mr Pankaj Joshi. We were travelling with a caravan of twelve camel carts carrying our luggage and provisions. After twelve kilometers or so we stopped at Merasar for lunch. That day (and practically on every other day) we had interactive sessions after lunch, conducted by our masters, on how to interact with people and thus strengthen our friendships. Trekking after lunch, with the sun shining bright right over our heads was a daunting prospect and therefore we tried to cover most of the distance before noon. On an average we trekked twenty-five kilometres every day in about six hours. The major problem we seemed to face was not that of water scarcity, which is the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of people travelling across a desert but the varying temperatures and the short days and long nights which gave us a limited time to trek. We stopped around sunset everyday, which was at about five in the evening.

We then pitched our tents all by ourselves, and had ample pleasure in just sipping our beaten coffee after a long strenuous day. Everyday around seven in the evening we lit a small bonfire and eased our fatigued bodies, hoping that the Sanchu Border (our final destination) was not very far. At eight we had a bowl of soup along with a small crispy papad, which was followed by dinner. After dinner Dr Shukla gave us a briefing about the next day and everyone listened attentively, hoping to see a different terrain than the same sandy one. In those seven days we observed a variety of flora and fauna, from the common camels to the rare chinkaras and nilgais, and also the various types of desert plants such as cactus, tumba and many other shrubs. The next day we started our trek at about nine in the morning, our fatigued bodies moving languidly, and luck being on our side, we were able to trek on the road (since walking on the road was much easier than on the sand). We walked through the desert later that day and the residents of the local village eyed us suspiciously, as if we were invaders trying to take over their land! What amazed us was how these people could live in the middle of the desert, without any electricity and scarcely any water, and still be happy. This was indeed an important lesson to learn and one to take forward in life. Soon enough we had our lunch and continued with another three hours of rough walk through the hot but beautiful desert. Contrary to our expectations we caught phone signals almost everywhere in the desert and saw patches of vegetation interspersed between undulating lines of the sand dunes. On the third day we started our trek on the sand, but just after a few kilo meters we saw the Indira Gandhi canal which seemed to emerge out of nowhere.

Due to the availability of water, there was a lot of greenery in the area around the canal which made it seem more like a forest than a desert.

At night we stayed at a somewhat dilapidated guest house, but it seemed more like a luxury to us . That evening we played cricket with a small branch and a Cosco ball. By the fourth day many of us started having body aches and rashes from the strenuous trek in the sun, but we didn’t give up and carried on with the same determination we had when we started our journey. That day, while walking by the canal we saw a young goat stuck on the other side of the canal, bleating helplessly and trying to climb over the concrete borders of the canal. Saving the goat was not only a Herculean task but also required the ‘milk of human kindness’, especially as Tushaar and a master from Pinegrove, Mr Sachin Devgun had to walk an extra two kilometers to accomplish this highly creditable task. Like I have mentioned before, the temperatures varied dramatically so that in the beginning few days of the trek we were almost bare bodied, but towards the end we were layered up in woollens even during the day while a dense fog enveloped us and the poor visibility slackened our pace. When we finally reached the Sanchu border, smiles spread across our faces and we had a strong bittersweet feeling. We were happy because we had ultimately accomplished our goal but to reach the end ofsuch an enriching journey also made us sad. We were told to write our afterthoughts and answer certain questions on a notepad. After reaching the Sanchu border we travelled by cars for about an hour to get to the Maruti border. At the Indian post there, which was our final destination, we could see the border separating India and Pakistan. It was a patriotic sight to see the Indian flag waving high in all its glory. We soon left the premises and were on our way back to Bikaner.

Though the main purpose of this trek was to test our endurance and mental tenacity, it also changed us all in different ways and left a lasting impact on us. It also gave us a hint of how the sky was the limit as far as human capability is concerned and stretched the boundaries of what can be made possible in our lives.

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The Circle

Completing the loop

Editor-in-Chief Rishabh Tusnial Master-in-Charge Ms Purnima Dutta

Sitting (L to R): Rishabh Tusnial, Ms Purnima Dutta, Guruansh Singh Standing: Dhruv Johri

The Doon School Information Review

Hot and happening

Editor-in-Chief Rahul Srivastava Master-in-Charge Ms Anamika Ghose

Sitting (L to R): Kunal Kanodia, Agni Raj Singh, Rahul Srivastava, Ms Anamika Ghose, Armaan Imam, Udbhav Agarwal, Vireshwar Sidhu Standing (L to R): Abhayraj Jain, Yash Dhandhania 82

The Doon School Weekly

Without fail

Editor-in-Chief Utkarsh Jha Masters-in-Charge Mr Shrey Nagalia, Mr Umung D Verma

Sitting (L to R): Raniz Bordoloi, Mr K C Maurya, Mr Vishal Mohla, Vikramaditya Kapur, Mr Umung D Varma, Utkarsh Jha, Mr Shrey Nagalia, Madhav Dutt, Ms Anamika Ghose, Mr Arvindanabha Shukla, Ritesh Shinde Standing (L to R): Vallavi Shukla, Anvay Grover, Devansh Agarwal, Codanda Cariapa Chengappa, Arjun Kamdar, Aditya Bhattacharya, Pulkit Agarwal, Arnaav Bhavanani, Husain Abbas, Vireshwar Singh Sidhu

The Echo

Half-heard

Editor-in-Chief Madhav Dutt Master-in-Charge Mr Umung D Varma

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The Econocrat

Bailout

Editor-in-Chief Kunal Kanodia Master-in-Charge Mr Mohd Istemdad Ali

Sitting (L to R): Jai Ahuja, Kunal Kanodia, Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali, Ritvik Kar, Devesh Sahai Standing (L to R): Arnaav Bhavanani, Shlok Jain

The Grand Slam

Game, Set, Match

Editors-in-Chief Devesh Sahai, Arush Sood Master-in-Charge Mr Philip Burrett

Sitting (L to R): Sarthak Gupta, Arush Sood, Mr Philip Burrett, Devesh Sahai, Sachin Mehra Standing (L to R): Rohan Chaudhuri, Nihal Sharma, Vivan Sharma, Tushaar Sharma

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The Infinity

Limitless

Editor-in-Chief Udbhav Agarwal Master-in-Charge Mr Anjan Kumar Chaudhary

Sitting (L to R): Devesh Sharma, Mr Rahul Luther, Mr Sudhir Thapa, Udbhav Agarwal, Mr Anjan Kumar Chaudhary, Shaurya Agarwal, Dr Mona Khanna, Mr Chandan Singh Ghugtyal, Pranay Raj Kapoor Standing (L to R): Abhinav Kejriwal, Pranjalya Shukla, Sabhya Katia, Azan Brar, Shrey Aryan, Harshvardhan Singh, Kanav Agarwal, Shiven Khanna

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Mother Tongue

Editor-in-Chief NIpurn Dutta Master-in-Charge Mr Manoj Pandey

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The Yearbook

Until next year

Editors-in-Chief Agni Raj Singh, Devesh Sharma Master-in-Charge Ms Purnima Dutta

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The Linguist

Editor-in-Chief Kartikeya Jain Master-in-Charge Dr Vidhukesh Vimal

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Historical Circle Essay Competition The Arab Spring is a failed revolution - Vireshwar Sidhu (623 Hyderabad House) The Arab Spring was a series of demonstrations and armed rebellions that sprang across the Middle East in 2011. Marc Lynch coined the term ‘Arab Spring’ after the successful ouster of Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled the country unopposed for 34 years. Due to the electoral successes of Islamists in many Arab countries, the movement is also called the ‘Islamist Spring’ or the ‘Islamist Winter’.

The Arab Spring started after a vegetable trader Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire, claiming to have been slapped by a policewoman. Bouazizi’s plight was similar to that of many other Arabs in the Middle East. This started the ‘Jasmine Revolution’, which in turn led to what is now known as the Arab Spring, The term Arab Spring is a subtle reference to the European Revolutions of 1848, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the democratic transitions in Eastern Europe in the post Cold-War era. The analogies make sense, given that the movements led to the toppling of dictators who seemed impervious to political change. People, who for so long had been oppressed and disempowered, seemed ready for the universal themes of social justice and political freedom.

However, after nearly three years of revolutions, no Arab country is close to being a stable, peaceful and democratic nation. In fact, they are rather far off.

There are serious problems in Libya. Tunisia and Yemen are in a political wrangling. Syria is embroiled in a bloody civil war with more than 100,000 killed.

And the most populous of all Arab countries, Egypt, has its first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, behind bars after a military coup earlier this year.

It is only in the oil-rich monarchies that the kings have been able to buy peace and docility of the people. However, fearing for their thrones, rulers of smaller kingdoms such as Jordon, Kuwait and Morocco have started offering more constitutional rights to their people.

Right from its onset, the Arab Spring was met with contempt and criticism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the Arab Spring as “Islamic, anti-Western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli and anti-democratic.”

Veteran Middle East analyst and ex-advisor to six U.S secretaries, Aaron David Miller argues, “the Arabs are much better at acquiring and fighting over power than they are at sharing it.”

Like Miller’s, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s initial reaction to the Arab Spring was cynical too. “I thought it was nothing, really. It would come and go and we’ll be back where we started. Chaos and one-man rule, which is how things usually end in the Muslim world.”

All these sentiments are understandable, given that the protests that were called ‘Arab Spring’ have exposed multiple internal conflicts, some of which are sectarian in nature, others that are of the rural-urban areas. The effects of these protests have been overwhelmingly negative. As a result, pessimists have already started labeling the ‘Arab Spring’ as a failed political uprising. What was being looked forward to with great fervor has now been written off.

Journalist and filmmaker Andre Vltchek, after his time in Egypt said, “That beautiful dream and that compassionate Revolution, that Arab Spring are all dead.”

These views are premature and it is safe to say, wrong. They fail to recognize that the ‘Arab Spring’ is an ongoing movement. The frustration and the disappointment will continue, but so will the ‘Arab Spring’. The precipitating factors of the movement were both economical and political, but the final outcome is yet unknown. To quote Ramzy Baroud of the International Policy Digest, “The revolutionary influx is still underway, and it will take many years before the achievements of these popular mobilizations will be truly felt.”

History is testament to the fact that revolutions start quickly, but it can take many years to achieve the ultimate goal. It is due to the Arab Spring that Libya’s Qadafi, Tunisia’s Ben Ali, Egypt’s Mubarak and Yemen’s Saleh were deposed. Egypt, though enduring a tumultuous time currently, was the first Arab country to hold democratic elections, another positive. The situation in the Middle East is definitely not ideal, but none of the people who led the movement would like to turn the clock back in time.

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There is also a long way to go before women fully attain rights. The United States gained independence in 1776, but it was not until the early 20th century that women were allowed to vote. In the Middle East too, women have been on the receiving end after the revolutions started. What’s important, however, is that women have been actively participating in the demonstrations, fighting not only for themselves, but also for their concerned nations, for freedom and for democracy. Saudi Arabia, for example, has allowed women to participate in municipal elections.

Democracy, however, is a new concept to the Middle East. People are still grasping the meaning of democracy. They are still embracing it. Most of the Arab countries were and some still are under despots and lack democratic institutions. Majed Sweilem agrees, “Our Arab societies largely lack a democratic culture.” The path to democracy is expected to be long, as is the case with introducing and setting up such institutions. Political scientist Francis Fukayama said, “The experiments we’ve seen in the Middle East have not worked very well, but they’re also very real and these institutions just take a long time to evolve.”

Nothing can be said with conclusiveness where the Arab countries will be in a couple of years. Perhaps religion will play a vital role. Perhaps monarchs will maintain their position. Perhaps some of the countries might see more dictators. As is known, political change is an evolving concept. Transition takes time. The change from communism to liberal democracies in East Europe took time. Even then, extremist politicians and criminal mafias overran this change for years after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the people triumphed.

Who could have predicted the fall of Berlin Wall, something so seemingly impossible pre-1984? To quote journalist Nareen Sadik, “The people made it happen. The Arab people are stronger now, and are no longer willing to accept repression and oppression as their fate.”

I reiterate, the success of the Arab Spring is yet unknown. But to assign the movement a failure is a grave miscalculation. Arab revolutions have not failed, certainly not yet. The Arab Spring needs to be given time to thrive. The people have risen and have challenged the status quo like never before. It may take decades, a generation even, for the Arab Spring to achieve its goal. The encouraging thing is the people are still demonstrating and expressing their dissatisfaction, something they could not have even thought of doing so a few years back.

The road was bound to be messy. But people are unwilling to hold back. A fire has been light. Change is taking place. Success is inevitable.

Bibliography http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2013/the-arab-spring-two-years-on-reflections-on-dignity-democracy-and-devotion-full-text/ http://www.internationalpolicy/digest.org/2013/11/07/has-the-arab-spring-failed/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2013/0820/Why-the-Arab-Spring-hasn-t-failed-in-Egypt-and-Middle-East http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21581734-despite-chaos-blood-and-democratic-setbacks-long-process-do-not-give-up http://newint.org/sections/argument/2013/10/01/argument-has-the-arab-spring-failed/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/05/arab-spring-democracy_n_4049414.html http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/omar-alghabra/arab-spring_b_4079725.html http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=1523 http://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-arab-spring-a-reality-check/ http://rt.com/op-edge/egypt-revolution-failed-arab-spring-849/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine_El_Abidine_Ben_Ali http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/15/arab-spring-tunisia-the-slap Quotation Reference: Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister) Aaron David Miller (Middle East Analyst) V. S. Naipaul (Writer) Andre Vltchek (Journalist and Filmmaker) Ramzy Baroud (Writer) Majed Sweilem Francis Fukayama (Political Scientist) Nareen Sadik (Journalist) 91

B G Pitre Cup for Best Science Fiction Short Story Abstractia - Prabnur Bal (702 Oberoi House) I opened my eyes. Everything was a blur. I felt like I was sitting on a bamboo mat. All I could hear was a buzz. I was dazed and couldn’t remember how this happened to me. Suddenly things came to focus and I could see everything clearly or could I? “No this can’t be right..” I thought.

I was sitting on what appeared to be solid wooden roots sticking out laterally from the ground. To say the ground was confusing would be to understate greatly. The ground was quite literally on my right side. As I got up on my feet, most of the wooden roots automatically receded back into the ground as if they were alive. About three remained. Below me in all directions except my right was a dark abyss. I didn’t quite know what to do. I couldn’t stay here forever. I lifted my foot and held it above the abyss. To my shock a wooden root suddenly stuck out of the ground in the place immediately below my foot.

Though unsure, I put my foot on the root. The root remained firm. I then repeated the process with my other foot. In this manner I actually began to walk.

“What happened? Where am I??”

There was no sun. There were no stars. There was no moon. In fact there was no source of light. Yet I could see everything. As if no light was required. I moved my eyes about but strangely the view around me never changed. It was as though I did not need them to see.

I scrutinized he ground. It was brown in colour with lines on it.

“But wait a minute that looks like….”

And then I looked upwards and saw it. I was startled. The ‘ground’ was actually a sheet of what appeared to be trees without leaves. Their top parts were purple in colour and to my horror, I saw tentacle like structures moving around.

I was so busy looking up, I didn’t notice was I was going. Suddenly, the ground had righted itself up and I was standing on a path. And all I was staring at were bushes at a distance. There were all red coloured stones on the ground and this purple stones in particular had caught my eye. I decided to look back.

I turned around only to see the same scene I had been looking at. The trees had disappeared and all I could see were the red stones and the purple one lying on the. This was an exact mirror image of what I had been looking at. I started feeling frustrated at this weird place. I was so angry I kicked at this purple coloured rock away. I turned back to continue on my way when I say that the purple rock on this side had disappeared. I walked all the way ahead to see the purple rock lying some distance ahead. I turned back and ran to check if the stone had moved in the mirror image. I ran on but all I saw were the red rocks. The purple rock seemed to have vanished.

“What kind of place is this? There doesn’t seem to be any logical explanation for all this.”

I dismissed it and went on.

“This road has to lead somewhere” I thought in sheer desperation.

“Lost are you?” said a voice in my head.

“Who are you?”

“Well hello there.”

I was so shocked, I almost fainted. The in front of me was the huge face of a Ginger Cat. It was floating in mid-air.

“Who are you?”

“Do I need a name?”

“What is this place?”

“Does it need a name?”

“Why is there a mirror image of everything?”

“What mirror image?”

“Whenever I turn back, I still see the same scene.”

“What else would you expect? You can’t move backwards” And then it hit me. In this world there was concept of being able to go backwards. There was only one direction. As I walked on the rock somehow kept 92

moving on, keeping at pace with me.

“What were those trees with the roots sticking out? They were the weirdest thing I have ever seen. It’s kind of hard to describe them. They created a path for me.”

The face smiled and said “You aren’t from these parts are you. Yes, I remember those trees. They are the recyclers of energy. When you step on them, they absorb the energy. Weird isn’t it. They actually need energy.”

1. Inspired by Alice In Wonderland At this point I was so confused; I didn’t bother to ask why.

Instead, I said or rather thought out loud, “So how could they sense me”.

“The trees initially mark your location. Then they send chemicals to each other to communicate your movements rather like a nerve impulse jumping through a synaptic cleft.”

Almost instantaneously the ground changed again. Suddenly it became full of depressions followed by elevating, forming a wave like structure.

“What just happened?”

“Ah! The ground’s finally straight.”

“But it’s curved.”

“What’s wrong with you? The ground is straight” Fitzgerald saw the scene unfold on a monitor screen. Subject 42 was doing well.

“Welcome to the future” Modern technology had made it possible for a person to interact with a virtual world as though it were real. HMDs, bone conducting and other technologies had created a revolution. Of course, the main scope of this technology was to allow people to experience racing, battle fields and sports where they could do so much more than in real life.

Fitzgerald had something else in mind that would take this technology to a whole new level. What if one could give a human the privilege to visit abstract impossible worlds? It would effectively allow humans to widen their sight. Suddenly, one could truly accept and admire the fact that nothing is absolute and anything is possible. Impossibility could truly cease to exist. Why should anything be the way it is in this universe? Why were laws so absolute?

Volunteers were easy to get. After all, who wouldn’t want a chance to able to finally think freely, to see beyond seeing itself? Of course for the subject to think freely, he would need to go into this world without even knowing it being virtual. That’s were bio-technology came into the picture.

Fitzgerald watched as subject 42 coped with his surroundings. It was just beautiful to see such a world and to be truly free from all assumptions and truly think freely.

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Archives Preserved

Boy-in-Charge: Apekshit Goel Master-in-Charge: Mrs Abia Qezilbash

The Archives conducted several activities and hosted many events for the School and Old Boys’ community over the year.

The Archives showcased the historically valued facts of Doon School at the D and C Form Induction.

Special installations were set up and displayed in the Library which outlined a history of the School.

During Founder’s Day, an Archives exhibition was put up for the batch of 1988 on their Silver Jubilee.

A new initiative was undertaken by the Archives to print a School calendar.

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Kunal Verma, Akshat Jha, Pragun Agarwal, Arjun Jai Khanna, Atreya Guruprasad, Ashish Pande, Shreyash Agarwal Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Anvay Grover, Jai Ahuja , Uday Rathore, Apekshit Goel, Mrs Abia Qezilbash, Anmol Jain, Suhel Karara, Arjun Kapur, Vireshwar Sidhu Standing (L to R): Arpit Chaddha, Vihaan Bhatnagar, Anirudh Batra, Manan Pradhan, Codanda Cariapa Chengappa, Rudra Srivastava, Anant Mohan, Atrey Bhargava, Atharva Shukla, Rahul Bhagchandani

Audio Visual Squad Round the clock

Boys-in-Charge: Shantanu, Varun Michael Pais Master-in-Charge: Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj

Along with the earlier memorabilia, the Archives team was able to raise a commendable amount of funds. An Archives training trip was undertaken to Modern Archives Institute, Washington D.C., at the National Archives. The Archives Supervisor, Mrs Abia Qezilbash, received a certificate for the twoweek training undertaken by her.

The Audio Visual Squad is an activity unique to our School. The boys are known for their resilient and hardworking attitude and this year was no less for the squad.

Events ranging for simple Assembly setups to our Founder’s Day productions, the boys worked day in and day out to deliver quality. The greatest attribute of all squad members is that whenever they have to deliver, they deliver with a smile. This speaks a lot about the attitude of the boys towards the activity.

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Prakarsh Gupta, Bharat Chaudhary, Talin Agarwal, Udayveer Singh Sekhon, Rushil Goyal, Rishi Choudhary, Dhruv Neil Pais Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Paramdeep Singh, Guruansh Banta Singh, Arihant Arora, Shantanu, Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj, Varun Michael Pais, Suraj Bishnoi, Ritvik Kar, Aashim Bansal Standing (L to R): Rishab Badhwar, Parth Aggarwal, Ishaan Kapoor, Chinmaya Sharma, Dhruv Ahuja, Sikandar Suri, Pratyush Bharati, Dhruv Johri, Sahir Chaudhary, Akarsh Tibrewal, Rishabh Agarwal, Kartavya Nagpal, Tanay Gopal Agarwal

Apart for the usual managing of events, this year, the boys also took over many events which earlier required external support. Due to this increase in events, the boys had an exponential increase in the awareness of the technical details of the equiptment.

The year could not have been what it was without the able leadership of the Boys-in-Charge Shantanu and Varun and their capable team of S Formers. They were the core of this activity and their contribution to the squad is note worthy.

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Boys’ Bank and Tuck Shop Bouncers

Boy-in-Charge: Jai Singh Yadav Masters-in-Charge: Mr Shadeep Adhikari, Mr Manoj Pandey

Boys’ Bank is one of the biggest activities in School.

Forty students and 5 teachers are involved in the running of the Boys’ Bank and the Tuck Shop. This year the old Boys Bank and Tuck Shop building was renovated, and now they have more space to store eatables.

Also, the boys have more seating space to eat and spend some time at the Boys Bank and Tuck Shop area.

Boys’ Bank opens all days of the week, including Sundays and holidays, to issue cash for private outings.

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ambikesh Shukla, Aashim Bansal, Mr Shadeep Adhikari, Jai Singh Yadav, Mr Manoj Pandey, Nakul Talwar, Mr Chandan Singh Ghughtyal Standing (L to R): Ashwath Madhok, Divij Mullick, Amal Agarwal, Kunal Srivastava, Rishith Agarwal, Laksh Sharaf, Nikunj Agarwal, Aditya Vardhan Agarwal

Entertainment Committee Now screening

Boy-in-Charge: Suraj Bishnoi Master-in-Charge: Mr Dhanesh Joshi

The Entertainment Committee this year ensured that every Saturday and any other night before a holiday, the student body got the chance to view at least one movie.

This year, not only did we ensure the picking of popular movies, but also tried to add some educational value to what we showed the School.

The Committee also tried to internalise the whole process of showing a movie by using School equipment and ensuring the use of School projectors and screens.

All in all, the society felt content with the work done and hope to have a better next year.

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First Aid How to save a life

Boy-in-Charge: Lanka Adarsh Master-in-Charge: Dr Amar Lanka

First Aid is an essential technique that is a must for all. To promote this education the Wellness Centre along with the Safety Circle conducted multiple workshops and training sessions for various groups throughout the course of the year.

First Aid training was given to the entire B Form and they also received certificates of competency.

C and D formers were introduced to the basics of First Aid and were inducted into the Wellness Centre system.

For the senior boys, we conducted small optional sessions leading up to the Inter-House First Aid competition. As always, the competition was filled with noteworthy performances. Josh Pasricha, Jai Ahuja and Ritvik Kar who were all awarded the First Aid Label for their dedication and hard work displayed commendable techniques.

Sitting (L to R): Jai Ahuja, Josh Pasricha, Dr Amar Lanka, Ritvik Kar, Ayush Tripathi Standing (L to R): Vibhav Gupta, Sarthak Gupta, Rishikant Sharma, Aditya Dhingra, Aditya Oberoi

Lost Property Office Finders Keepers

Boy-in-Charge: Arjun Kamdar Master-in-Charge: Mr Vinay Pande

Twice a week, the boys involved with the LPO, along with the help of the Guard on duty, search the Main Building, library, dining hall and other academic areas for any lost and unclaimed iteMs These unclaimed / left behind items include books, umbrellas, rain coats, School bags, water bottles and other valuable items such as digital calculators and wrist watches.

Lost books and stationery constitute a major part of the LPO and most of these are returned to their owners during the year. A group of six boys under a Master-in-Charge helps the students to recover / reclaim their lost items In the coming year, this squad intends to make the LPO more organized and try to educate the students, especially the junior boys, to be more responsible for their belongings.

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School Choir and Orchestra Pitch perfect

Orchestra Leader: Namanshree Jain Master-in-Charge: Mrs Priya Chaturvedi

1st Row Orchestra (L to R): Mrigank Khemka, Hamza Khan, Madhav Goel, Namanshree Jain, Vrindam Nagpal, Aditya Gupta, Yuvraj Nathani 2nd Row Orchestra (L to R): Kartik Mohan, Vishesh Khetan, Paramdeep Singh, Smrithi Nair, Vallavi Shukla, Malini Malviya 1st Row Choir (L to R): Tanishk Saha, Jashan Kalra, Nalini Malviya, Vineet Puri, Divij Mullick, Keshav Maliah 2nd Row Choir (L to R): Parth Vohra, Aaryman Agarwal, Vihaan Bhatnagar, Laksh Saraf, Anant Mohan, Aditya Krishna 3rd Row Choir (L to R): Siddhant Gupta, Shourya Kishorepuria, Navraaj Randhawa, Rishabh Agarwal, Atrey Bhargava

Paper Recycling The power of green

Boy-in-Charge: Madhav Dutt Master-in-Charge: Dr Srinivas Swamy

As one of the most sought-after SUPW activities, the paper recycling squad took several steps to ensure quality output and learning among the boys.

The unit also worked with the newly acquired state of the art equipment for recycling paper, which also increased the efficiency of the squad. This resulted in producing finer and better quality paper than in previous years.

This year the unit explored other areas for collaborative work such as the use of paper pulp to make masks, as well as Papier Maché work in the Art School, which attracted many students and gave a new direction to the re-use and recycling of paper. The paper recycling unit is further looking forward to joining interSchool projects such as “The Great Banyan Tree Project” in association with The British Council.

Sitting(L to R): Ashutosh Goyal, Rishavraj Das, Agni Raj Singh, Dr Srinivas Swamy, Madhav Dutt, Mr Vinay Pande, Parth Vohra, Vibhav Gupta, Ayush Tripathi Standing (L to R): Mudit Bajaj, Manan Dadhania, Raihan Rajiv Vadra, Tanmay Nautiyal, Shlok Jain, Yasharth Goyal, Madhav Gurtoo, Ishaan Kapoor, Mihir Gupta, Ishita Bhardwaj, Manraj Singh Sra 99

RLSS Lifeguards Coast Guard

Boy-in-Charge: Agni Raj Singh Master-in-Charge: Mrs Anez Katre

RLSS is an activity that requires emmense dedication, persistance and practice. Without these three qualities, it is impossible to attain either standard in the tests.

Life Guards This year marked a key change in the Life Guard examinations. The minutes in which the boys had to finish the endurance test was decreased from twenty minutes to fifeen minutes.

Apart from that the intensity with which the boys had to practice was also increased. Teh boys appearing for the Life Guard examinations were also required to have a student for Life Saver under them.

Sitting (L to R): Palash Kanwar, Gaurav Kothari, Agni Raj Singh, Mrs Anez Katre, Sumer Sehgal, Shubham Agarwal, Vinayak Chaudhary Standing (L to R): Abhishek Pai, Rohan Agarwal, Josh Pasricha, Ritvik Kar

Life Savers Every year, the number of Life Savers is lesser than that of the Life Guards. But this year, the number of Life Savers surpassed the number of Life Guards.

The talent displayed by the junior boys was commendable.

Apart from the increase in umber of students involved with the activity, there was also a significant impprovement in the quality of sqimming seen and the life saving techniques.

RLSS Life Savers Bay watch

Boy-in-Charge: Agni Raj Singh Master-in-Charge: Mrs Anez Katre

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Stage Committee Setting it just right

Boy-in-Charge: Harshil Aggarwal Master-in-Charge: Mr Samik Das

The Stage Committee consists of boys from C to SC Forms They work for all the in-house functions, talks, competitions and many other events that happen in School.

The Stage Committee prepares the stages, and takes care of props and stage management during plays. It requires lot of planning and this helps the boys to learn organisational skills.

This year, two newly constructed storage spaces and two make-up rooms have been handed over to the Stage Committee. These are adjacent to The Rose Bowl. This has facilitated storage and movements of props. The committee plans to gradually add shelves and racks for better organization of re-usable properties.

Sitting 1st Row (L to R): Savar Khanna, Ashwin Agarwal, Kanav Agarwal, Suryansh Agarwal, Ishmaam Chowdhury, Saksham Garg, Kalpit Sharma, Yuvan Jaidka Sitting 2nd Row (L to R): Anmol Jain, Pranjalya Shukla, Namanshree Jain, Mr Dhanesh Joshi, Suhel Karara, Mr Samik Das, Harshil Aggarwal, Mr Vivek Kumar, Farhan Anis, Harsh Singhania, Raghav Bansal Standing (L to R): Yashoraj Agarwal, Tanishk Saha, Ayushmaan Aroraa, Saket Golyan, Sabir Singh, Gaurav Kothari, Vinayak Chaudhary, Shrey Aryan, Rohan Agarwal, Sabhya Katia, Josh Pasricha, Rahul Agarwal, Rishi Raj Deva, Jagjit Singh

Weather Reporting Rain Gods

Boy-in-Charge: Arjun Sharma Master-in-Charge: Dr Srinivas Swamy

Over the years the interest in Weather Reporting as an SUPW activity has picked up, and this year saw as many as 20 students opting for it.

The increase in the number was due to the upgrading of the instruments to acquire real time weather data in digital form using the Davis pro weather station installed in the School campus.

The regular display of the weather data and the predictions were very well used by different houses to plan out their Inter-House cricket matches.

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Trophy Squad

Boy-in-Charge: Suyash Bishnoi

From Brass to Gold

Master-in-Charge: Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian

The squad showed a lot of endurance and tough work in managing different gadgets and chemicals to give the perfect shine on trophies. The calligraphers Ahaan Agrawal and Krishna Goyal wrote a considerable number of certificates over the course of the year. A massive collection of trophies was put on show in the trophy room on the 78th Founder’s Day. The trophy room was maintained for parents and visitors to visit. The Trophy Squad’s own database were updated by Aviraj Singh Machre and Archit Bhargava. The squad helped in designing and developing 66 Marker Cups [D to SC Form & IB], 33 sports cups, 7 special cups and one medal through the best trophy maker ‘Gupta Industries’ in Moradabad for ‘Prize Giving Day’.

Sitting 1st Row (L to R) : Tanay Agarwal, Aaryan Singhla, Samarth Prasad, Raghav Kumar, Leonardo Pamei, Ahaan Agarwal, Shresht Mehra, Saksham Goel, Ujjwal Maheshwari Sitting 2nd Row (L to R) : Kanav Ghai, Arunabh Uttkarsh, Sarthak Gupta, Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian, Suyash Bishnoi, Mr Pankaj Das, Sachin Mehra, Nihal Dhillon, Naman Lodha Standing (L to R) : Viren Agarwal, Priyanshu Raj, Siddharth Jain, Aviral Garg, Aaryaman Pawar, Nasir Iqbal, Kanav Agarwal, Jaivir Puri, Anuvrat Chaudhary, Chaitanya Agarwal, Siddharth Goel, Arnav Kumar, Tejit Pabari

One of the creative innovations was to design a ‘Mini P.T. Gong’. The gong was presented to the winning house P.T. Squad by Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall.

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We are the world

Secretary Apekshit Goel Chairperson Dr Peter McLaughlin

Sitting (L to R): Mr Vinay Pande, Farhan Anis, Mrs Amrit Burrett, Apekshit Goel, Dr Peter Mclaughlin, Yashraj Agarwal, Mr Skand Bali, Harshil Aggarwal

Interact Club The Club continued its good work and is one of the School social service units where our boys work closely with other schools. A new team was appointed, with Gaurav Kothari as the president, in a joint Installation Ceremony at St. Joseph’s Academy. The Interact Club in School took up Cleaning Drives with the help of The Army’s Eco Task Force and in two such drives near the School, the boys collected over a ton of garbage which was taken by the Eco Task Force for recycling. This is a new initiative where the School works jointly with the Indian Army.

Udaan This year the Udaan team conducted two awareness programs at Unison School and at Hopetown School with the help of ‘Nizaat’, an NGO that the School has always worked on de-addiction projects.

Apna Vidya Mandir Regular visits were made by students and tutors to the two Schools at Mulookchand and Dhandapur. Workshops were conducted for the teachers to empower them with new and effective ways of teaching. On Independence Day, our students and teachers celebrated the occasion at these Schools and distributed sweets. On Children’s Day, the students from these two Schools visited the FRI; and a picnic was also organized for them at the Robber’s Cave.

The students also participated in the Terry Fox Run at The Doon School.

Women Empowerment Seven training programmes for women empowerment were organized. These training programmes were organized at our adopted villages with the help of the NESBUD. Rasulpur Oakham School in the UK raised Rs 11 lakhs for the proposed School building at the village and the money donated for the project was made through the sale of an international cookery book that the Oakham students had published. The work on the new School building begins with the visit of the Oakham team in July 2013. A 12-member committee from the village comprising a mix of old and young, male and female, poor and better-off, was set up to work as the managing body of the School. The committee which will be registered will be responsible for the running of the School.

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Sports Clinic Pranav Kothiwal and Arnav Kumar of Tata House took over the clinic this year. They held regular football classes with the students coming from the Vatikas and Bindal sluMs This activity also gives boys who are interested in sports a chance to come forward and serve others through their sporting interests.

Second Helpings This initiative entails boys taking leftover lunch from the CDH and distributing it at the Bindal River slum, which grows year on year. This regular activity happens almost every day. Many more boys have joined this initiative this year.

John Martyn School The Music and Art Schools have extended their resources to the John Martyn Memorial Trust School and take our students to train the John Martyn students on a regular basis.

Youth Empowerment Under this initiative, our boys continued with their conversation classes with children from the Sapera Basti and Bindal slums on topics of social importance.

Our students from C and D Forms join in the discussions, which are lively and gathering momentum. This activity enables our students to see how the children coming from different backgrounds think and react. This year the same activity was introduced at Nanda ki Chowki as well.

Bindal Slum Vatika This term children from the Bindal slum started coming to our Panchayat Ghar instead of our students going to the slum. These students from Bindal come to us for regular classes that are held especially for them. This gives them a chance to absorb a different living environment and to spend some time at Chandbagh, in addition to the learning and experience they receive.

Sapera Basti Along with the regular classes that take place in the Sapera Basti, this year ten boys took part in the first ever Uttrakhand Mountain Biking race. Sixty children from this vatika took part in cleaning the Laachiwala forest organized by the Friends of Doon. In December, twenty-five boys from Sapera Basti attended the MCC Cricket training camp organized at The Doon School. For some, it was the opportunity of a lifetime to be trained at Chgandbagh by first class cricketers. In the month of May, the first Hero Cricket Cup Tournament for all the Saperas was also started; this will be a regular feature every year.

Seven sapera teams from all over Dehradun took part in the tournament. Our boys helped organize and run the tournament. Independence Day was celebrated by our teachers and students at the Basti. On Children’s Day, sixty Vatika children were taken to FRI for a museum visit and later had a picnic at the Robber’s Cave.

Balbir Vatika Regular visits were made by our students and teachers to assist Vatika children with their School work and a number of activities were organized to involve the whole community. An “Annual Day” was also celebrated. Students were taken for a picnic to Robber’s Cave and Independence Day was celebrated in the Vatika. Students were taken to FRI to celebrate Children’s Day. Nanda Ki Ckowki Vatika At this project, our boys work on adult education and have seventeen women attending classes regularly. This year Yash Dhandhania introduced the Youth Empowerment programme. He and his team were very happy with the participation from the boys in the basti.

Serving the differently abled Regular visits were made to the Latika Roy Foundation and Hope Foundation. During their visits, our students noticed the lack of games equipment at these centres. Mr Devendra Mishra, along with his team, collected Rs 15,000 by selling handmade cards and the money raised was donated to these centres for equipment. The first All India Blind Cricket Tournament was organized by the Blind Cricket Association in the month of June. Later, after the tournament, regular practice sessions were conducted with our boys. One match was also played between The Doon School boys and the winning team of the tournament, with the rules that are followed by blind cricketers. It was very interesting as our boys found the playing conditions different and were amazed by the skills shown by the visually challenged.

Prem Dham Old Age Home This year efforts were made to re-establish contact with Prem Dham, a home for the aged in Dalanwalla. Our students, in batches and often led by their tutors, were encouraged to spend time with the elderly and to read and talk to them.

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The Royal Visit in November The highlight of the year was the visit by the Duchess of Cornwall in November 2013. The royal household was particularly interested in Doon’s traditions of social service and notably our women empowerment schemes, a favourite charitable activity of the Duchess and future Queen of England. The boys exhibited their efforts and projects and spent time talking to Her Royal Highness. It was a great encouragement to the boys involved in the social service activity at Doon that their work had been appreciated by such a distinguished guest. Hundreds of children from our School and slum projects were invited to the event and joined the Duchess in the Rose Bowl for some live performances by the boys. Afterwards the children had a special tea to celebrate the occasion.

The Surgery on Kartik from Rasulpur Through the efforts of the social service team, Kartik, a 5-year old boy from Rasulpur, who had been suffering from a life-threatening abdominal illness, was brought to Dehradun for two surgeries at the Suri Nursing Home. The boy is now well and happy. The Doon School financed the two operations for the needy family.

Sign Language The Sign Language SUPW was started as a pilot project by Foot House. This project was started in collaboration with the Bajaj Institute of Learning. All boys (D Form) of the house were taught the Indian Sign Language by Mr Nitin, a hearing impaired teacher and an alumnus of the Bajaj Institute. By the end of the term, most boys were able to have a conversation without speaking. The best instance was when the boys went on a service outing to work with the Waste Warriors in Dehradun. There they met some senior volunteers of the Waste Warriors talking in sign language. The boys started communicating with them in ISL. They had a fairly productive conversation; they guided the student volunteers from the Bajaj Institute and drew much appreciation.

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Round Square Boy-in-Charge Adarsh Lanka Master-in-Charge Mr Ambikesh Shukla

Sitting (L to R): Mrs Anez Katre, Mr Skand Bali, Mr Inderjit Singh, Jai Ahuja, Mr Ambikesh Shukla, Suhel Karara, Dr Amar Lanka, Mr Jitendra Tiwari, Mr Nitin Chauhan Standing (L to R): Hitansh Nagdev, Deep Dhandhania, Vathsal Kumar Gupta, Arush Sood, Arjun Kapur, Aditya Bhattacharya, Ritvik Kar, Bharat Chaudhary, Nehansh Saxena

RSC Cambodia The Round Square Leadership Training Project took place from December 7 to 13, 2013, in the Takeo province of Cambodia, about 90 kms south of Phnom Penh. The team consisted of 22 adults of 10 different countries from schools affiliated to Round Square. The team leader was Liz Gray, the manager for Round Square International Service Projects, London. The Doon School was the only school from India. The project took place in coordination with A Mine-Free World Foundation (AMFWF), Canada, and the Banyan Learning Tree Foundation, Cambodia.

Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Asia and this project was aimed at assisting poor women in rebuilding work ethic and skills. Through a careful selection and interview process, women from families lacking a sustainable income were given vocational training during a three-month period at the Weaving Centre. The other aim of the Project was to train the teachers of schools to be Leaders or Deputy Leaders in future Round Square projects, which are very challenging and demanding responsibilities. Over the duration of the project, a wide variety of community service was done and the team constructed a weaving centre to employ the poor women of the area. Three looms were bought and installed there. Additionally, a one-stall toilet building with a metal roof and septic tank was also constructed. The team members had also raised USD 11,000 from their schools and associates that was used to further help the economically challenged villagers of the area. This was used to hire expert staff to train the local women in weaving. A woman trained in weaving can earn 4 USD per day, much higher than the usual daily wage of 1 USD of one Cambodian.

Also, 50 bicycles were given to children so that they could comfortably cover long distances from their homes to their schools. Mosquito nets were provided to prevent the mosquito-borne diseases, which are highly prevalent in Cambodia. 11 chicken coops were given to families for micro-business and self-sustenance. Dental hygiene products, including toothbrushes and toothpastes, were distributed after giving awareness talks and demonstrations to all locals, especially the children. During the mid-project break, the team also visited the S-21 museum, the ‘Killing fields’, and a Vishnu temple dating back to circa 6 BCE that took an hour to reach by speedboat.

It was an extremely enriching and rewarding experience, and we are grateful to the Headmaster for his encouragement and assistance in this regard. We expect to continue contributing more to the Round Square community as a member school, and to keep giving back to the underprivileged, in accordance with our School’s proud ethos.

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Accounts, Commerce and Economics Department

Wealth education

Head of Department Mr Kamal Ahuja

Sitting (L to R): Mr Praveen Dwivedi, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Mr Deepak Sharma, Mr Shadeep Adhikari Standing (L to R): Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali, Mr Samik Das, Mr Ishaan Saxena, Mr Aseem Tripathi

Art

Finding finesse

Head of Depatment Mr Aloke Bhowmick

Sitting (L to R): Mr Madan Singh, Mr Tapan Barui, Ms Banita Bhau, Mr Aloke Bhowmick, Mr Arnab Mukherjee, Mrs Mohua Bhowmick, Mr Sanjib Kalsi, Mr Sikanto Banerjee Standing (L to R): Kishan, Kishore, Vijay Ram, Anand, Lalu Ram 120

Design and Technology Department

Constructing foundations

Head of Department Mr Ankur Khare

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ankur Khare, Mr Hari Om Standing (L to R): Mr Furkan Khan, Mr Vijay Kumar

English Department

The Literati

Head of Depatment Mr Debashish Chakrabarty

Sitting (L to R): Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya, Mrs Jasbir Kaur Anand, Mr Debashish Chakrabarty, Ms Stuti Kuthiala, Ms Priya Chauhan Standing (L to R): Mr Shrey Nagalia, Mr Ashad Qezilbash, Mr John Xavier 121

Foreign Languages Department

The Foreigner

Sitting (L to R): Mr Dhanesh Joshi, Dr Ritu Bahl Mohan

Hindi Department

Swades

Head of Department Dr Arvindanabha Shukla

Sitting (L to R): Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Dr Mohan Chandra Joshi, Mr Manoj Pandey Standing (L to R): Mr Mrigank Pandey, Mr Devendra Kumar Mishra 122

Humanities Department

Live and let live

Head of Department Mr Piyush Malviya

Sitting (L to R): Mr Rashid Sharfuddin, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Mr Piyush Malviya, Ms Purnima Dutta, Mr Philip Burrett Standing (L to R): Mr Skand Bali, Ms Anamika Ghose, Mr Arvind Dethe

Mathematics Department

dy/dx

Head of Depatment Mr Sudhir Thapa

Sitting(L to R): Mr Pankaj Joshi, Dr Mona Khanna, Mr Sudhir Thapa, Mr Biren Kumar Chamola, Mr Anjan Chaudhary Standing (L to R): Mr Chandan Singh Ghughtyal, Dr Rahul Luther, Mr Manu Mehrotra 123

Music Department

Sounds of silence

Head of Department Mrs Priya Chaturvedi

Sitting (L to R): Mr Aditya Sharma, Mr Avijit Chattopadhayay, Mrs Priya Chaturvedi, Mr Partho Roy Chaudhary

Science Department

The only constant

Head of Department Mr Rajesh Majumdar

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ashish Dean, Mrs Malvika Bhatt, Mr Vinay Pande, Mr Rajesh Majumdar, Mr Dinesh Chandra Bhatkoti, Mrs Meeta Sharma, Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian Standing (L to R): Mr Manish Pant, Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj, Mr Umung D Varma, Mr Vivek Kumar, Dr Srinivas Swamy, Mr Chit Ranjan Kagdee 124

Physical Education Department

Simply disciplined

Head of Department Mr Nitin Chauhan

Sitting (L to R): Jitendra Tiwari, Mr Nitin Chauhan, Mr Michael James, Mr Inderjit Singh

Farewell...

Mr A R Singh Mr Sanjiv Bathla Students often say that they bond a lot with their peers during the midterms but the same can be said about the masters as well! I got to know Mr A. R. Singh really well when we went for midterms together to Rajgarh. Thereafter we did a couple of other midterms as well. Mr Singh was wonderful company; very knowledgeable, down-to-earth, and a delightful human being. He was a great trekker and loved going on midterms despite the acute travel sickness!

He was instrumental in laying the foundation of the D&T department.

An avid craftsman himself he inspired boys to do great work in the D&T department. I always looked forward to the exhibition by his department during the Founder’s day celebrations.

He was a true friend and I miss his presence on campus. I wish him a very happy retired life.

Mr Manu Mehrotra

If Sanjeev were to have a middle name, it would perhaps be Sanjeev Versatile Bathla or in School parlance, SVB. Since he doesn’t have one, he was known as SJB, the ‘ J’ of course stood for all the whacky jokes that he was famous for cracking. However, beneath that jocular persona, Sanjeev is a deeply caring and sensitive person. Such sensitivity finds expression in his photographs, paintings, sculptures and writings.

His style of functioning was marked by a conscious, constant endeavour to empower all those he has been in charge of – from tutees to boys and even the tutors of Jaipur House.

Most of all, Sanjeev is the most ‘cosmopolitan’ Dosco one is likely to come across. An Old Boy of Tata House, he would be cheering lustily for Hyderabad v/s Tata, when he was tutor of Hyderabad House. Then, as Housemaster of Jaipur House, he would throw lavish parties- who can forget the grand dinner when the House claimed the Grand Slam in years. Never once did he allow his Tata House days to influence his loyalty to the House to which he would be attached to in his SJB avtar. It was only after he left School to head the Sri Ram Centenial School, that he expressed his emotions at Tata House having won the PT Gong with a deafening ‘yeaah Go Tadah’ – in the true Tadah House ishtyle!

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Teaching Staff

All on one side

Sitting (L to R): Mr Manu Mehrotra, Mr Debashish Chakrabarty, Mr Rashid Sharfuddin, Mr Biren Chamola, Mr Piyush Malviya, Dr Mohan Chandra Joshi, Mr Vinay Pande, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Dr Peter Mclaughlin, Mr Philip Burrett, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Mr Deepak Sharma, Mr Ashad Qezilbash, Mr Anjan Chaudhary, Ms Stuti Kuthiala, Mr Skand Bali Standing 1st Row (L to R): Mr Pankaj Joshi, Mrs Anez Katre, Mr Aloke Tirtha Bhowmick, Mrs Priya Chaturvedi, Dr Vidhukesh Vimal, Mr Vishal Mohla, Mr Nitin Chauhan, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Mr Rajesh Majumdar, Mr Sudhir Thapa, Mrs Namrata Pandey, Mrs Amrit Burrett, Mr John Xavier, Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui, Mr Ambikesh Shukla Standing 2nd Row (L to R): Mrs Mohua Bhowmick, Mrs Jasbir Kaur Anand , Mr Arnab Mukherjee, Mrs Malvika Bhatt, Ms Prachi Nagalia, Mrs Meeta Sharma, Dr Mona Khanna, Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya, Ms Purnima Dutta, Ms Anamika Ghose, Mr Shadeep Adhikari, Mr Samik Das, Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj, Mr Rahul Luther, Mr Chandan Singh Ghughtyal, Mr Arvind Dethe Standing 3rd Row (L to R): Mr Michael James, Mr Anand Kumar Mandhian, Mr Manish Pant, Mr Pankaj Das, Mr Augustus Ranjan Singh, Ms Banita Bhau, Dr Ritu Bahl Mohan, Mr Sikanto Banerjee, Ms Priya Chauhan, Mr Sanjib Kalsi, Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali, Mr Partho Roy Chaudhary, Mr Dhanesh Joshi, Mr Mrigank Pandey, Mr Ankur Khare , Mr Jitendra Tiwari , Mr Tapan Barui Standing 4th Row (L to R): Mr Chit Ranjan Kagdee, Mr Dinesh Chandra Bhatkoti, Mr Manoj Pandey, Mr Vivek Kumar, Dr Srinivas Swamy, Mr Kirti Pal Singh Tomar, Mr Avijit Chattopadhyay, Mr Umung Varma, Mr Ishaan Saxena, Mr Inderjit Singh, Mr Aditya Sharma, Mr Praveen Dwivedi, Mr Arun Kumar, Mr Madan Singh, Mr Mohit Sinha

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Housemasters

Caretakers

Sitting (L to R): Mr Manu Mehrotra, Mr Skand Bali, Ms Stuti Kuthiala, Mr Ashad Qezilbash, Mr Vinay Pande, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Dr Peter Mclaughlin, Mr Philip Burrett, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Mr Biren Chamola, Mr Debashish Chakrabarty, Mr Anjan Chaudhary, Mr Rashid Sharfuddin Standing (L to R): Mr John Xavier, Mr Ashish Dean, Mr Nitin Chauhan, Dr Vidhukesh Vimal

Dames

The Crew

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ashad Qezilbash, Mrs Anuroop Jouhal, Mrs Meenakshi Tripathi, Mrs Sarabjeet Sandhu, Mrs Ranjit Kaur, Mrs Sonali Malviya, Mrs Priyanka Majumdar, Mr Sameer Katre 127

staff

Administrative

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Administrative Department

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ajay Kumar, Mr Ram Gopal Maurya, Mr Sachin Goyal, Mr Yusuf Khan, Mr Sameer Katre, Mrs A Sabharwal, Mrs Anupama Rawat, Mr Ashish Jain, Mr Atul S Pundir Standing (L to R): Netra Bahadur Thapa, Mr Virendra Singh, Rajender, Anil Thapa, Mr Sewak Bisht, Mr S S Ale, Mr Neeraj Kumar, Ramesh, Lal Singh

Administration Heads

Sitting (L to R): Mr Hemant Sharma, Mr Madan Mohan Purohit, Mr Sameer Katre, Mr Sanjay Makhija, Mr Raveesh Dogra 129

Central Dining Hall

Sitting (L to R): Rajendra Singh ,Ram Shankar, Suneel Uniyal, Subodh Nautiyal, Mr Pankaj Goyal , Mr Sanjay Makhija, Mr Vishal Anand , Ali Bux, Manoj Kukreti, Mohan Prakash, Gaurav Standing 1st Row (L to R): Mahipal , Surendar , Shukla, Kamal, Deepak ,Dinesh, Bhagwan Das, Mehrwan Singh, Muhar Singh, Subhash, Kamal Nayan, Ashok, Dilip, Kamal Standing 2nd Row(L to R): Shamdeva, Jagat Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Virendar Mani, Chote Lal, Lakhpat, Sunil, Rajendar, Ashok, Mahendar, Gajendar, Radesham, Harish, Ram Bahadur

Engineering

Sitting (L to R): Mr Rohit Sharma , Mr Raveesh Dogra ,Mr Narendra Kumar 130

Deans and Directors

Sitting (L to R): Mr Deepak Sharma, Mr Sameer L Katre, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Dr Peter McLaughlin, Mr Vinay Pande, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Dr M C Joshi Standing (L to R): Mr Piyush Malviya, Mr Ashad Qezilbash, Mr Rishabh Sharma, Wg Cdr Anupama Joshi

Finance

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ritesh Sharma, Mr Dilip Kumar, Mr Surenderjit Singh, Ms Pooja Anand, Mr Abhijit Bageai Standing (L to R): Brijlal Ji, Mr Subodh Kumar, Akilesh Ji, Arvind Kumar 131

Headmasterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Secretariat and Residence

Sitting (L to R): Mr Madan Lal Kothari, Ms Swati Singh, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Dr Peter McLaughlin, Retd Wg Cdr Anupama Joshi, Mrs Neema Rawat Aswal, Mr Bhupinder Singh Standing (L to R): Rajkumar, Gopal, Anand Mani, Manoj Maurya, Gaugadin, Sai Kumar, Rajesh Koti, Dhawpath

Horticulture

Sitting (L to R): Rakesh, Hridey Ram, Shiv Kumar, Mr Hemant Sharma, Ramnaresh, Jaglal, Arvind Standing (L to R): Harish Chander, Kishen Pal, Suresh Chand, Dileep Nayar, Ram Sager, Ram Shanker, Pujari Lal, Hari Shanker, Harish Chand 132

IB Office

Sitting (L to R): Mrs Meeta Sharma, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Mr Vinay Pande, Mr Pankaj Joshi, Mr Bhaskar Ojha

Library

Sitting (L to R): Mrs Abia Qezilbash, Mr Pankaj Das, Mrs Saira Bano Standing (L to R): Subhash , Manoj

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Stores

Sitting (L to R): Mr Abhijeet Bagchi, Mr Y S Rawat Standing (L to R): Siya Ram Ma, Ramshankar Maurya

Wellness Centre

Sitting (L to R): Mr Shivraj Negi, Mr Kailash Chand Tripathi, Dr Amar Lanka, Sister Karma, Dr Aakash Naidu, Mr Rajandra Singh Standing (L to R): Subhash Kumar, Bhed Prakash, Dinesh, Parveen, Pardeep 134

Support Staff (Academic)

Sitting (L to R): Virender Bhaiya, Mr K C Maurya, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Mr Vinay Pande, Mrs Meeta Sharma, Rajan Bhaiya Standing (L to R): Mukesh Bhaiya, Suresh Bhaiya, Manoj Bhaiya, Udaiveer Bhaiya

Support Staff (Pastoral)

Sitting (L to R): Bhagat, Ravi, Harshmani, Akhtar Gopal, Vinod, AH Khan, Sagir, Ruhan, Mahavir Standing (L to R): Ram, Dheeraj, Ashish, Shyamu, Deep Chandra, Ashwin, Ramesh, Virendra, Ravi Kumar, Shakti, Ravi, Sanjiv, Chunnu, Vicky, Vijesh 135

Workshop

Sitting (L to R): Bharat Thapa, Shiv Charan, Mr Parvez Iqbal, Mr M M Purohit, R B S Gill, Azhar Khan, Ashok Kumar, Om Prakash Standing (L to R): Chandrashekhar, Amit Gautam, Mukesh, Baldev, Sanjay, Rakesh, Rakesh Pawar, Mahavir Pundir, Ashok Thapa, Badri Prasad, Milan Rana

Training Centre

Sitting (L to R): Mr Vinay Pande, Mrs Anez Katre Standing: Naeem Khan 136

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Hyderabad House

Housemaster Mr Biren Chamola Assistant Housemaster Mr John Xavier

House Captain Agni Raj Singh

Prefects Rahul Srivastava Kabir Sethi Dhruv Prasad

Sitting (L to R): Mr Mansih Pant, Mr Mrigank Pandey, Durgesh Agarwal, Ms Anamika Ghose, Suyash Bishnoi, Dr Arvindanabha Shukla, Aamir Shah, Mr Dinesh Chandra Bhatkoti, Rahul Srivastava, Mr Biren K Chamola, Agni Raj Singh, Mr John Xavier, Kabir Sethi, Mrs Meenakshi Tripathi, Dhruv Prasad, Dr Ritu Bahl Mohan, Devesh Sharma, Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali, Yashraj Agarwal, Mr Arun Kumar, Mr Umung D Varma Standing 1st Row (L to R): Pritika Sandhu, Chirag Mittal, Shantanu, Sarvashresht Singh, Vedant Khanna, Arnav Joshi, Imaan Pariat Mehta, Pranay Raj Kapoor, Shikha Kothari, Nayan Manchanda Standing 2nd Row (L to R): Uday Rathore, Vibhav Gupta, Devang Mehra, Arush Sood, Divyansh Goel, Udayan Sinha, Parth Vohra, Syed Mohammed Amaan Kazmi, Yuvraj Nathani, Pulkit Agarwal, Sartaj Sidhu, Varun Sinha, Palash Kanwar, Mohan Preetham, Rajkumar Vijay, D Prasanna Rajan, Vireshwar Sidhu, Guruansh Singh, Rahil Arora, Madhav Mundra Sitting 3rd Row (L to R): Ghatik Gupta, Amol Pajni, Yajawin Tandon, Divij Kapoor, Priyanshu Raj, Shlok Jain, Kismat Chopra, Arya Tamrakar, Vivek Sinha, Yash Mishra, Kartikay Garg, Hamza Khan, Akarsh Tibrewal, Rohan Chaudhari, Krishn Amit Bhargava, Ajatshatru Singh, Nihal Mann, Nikhil Chauhan, Siddhant Gupta, Yasharth Goyal, Navraaj Randhawa, Daksh Bhatia, Prabhsharan Mamik Standing 4th Row (L to R): Abhayraj Jain, Fateh Partap Singh Phoolka, Vatsal Bora, Sasyak Pattnaik, Aryan Chhabra, Archit Bhargava, Udayveer Sekhon, Viraaj Gaur, Harshit Verma, Manan Dadhania, Mohammad Zaid bin Shameem, Leonardo Pamei, Prakhar Dwivedi, Siddarth Goyal, Samarth Prasad, Arnav Jain, Aryaman Singh, Arjun Singh, Udayvir Jaijee, Raghav Kumar, Sajal Bansal, Shivraj Bhatti Standing 5th Row (L to R): Vipin Bhaiya, Sagir Bhaiya, Nehansh Saxena, Ahaan Agarwal, Rishab Badhwar, Kanav Gupta, Tanay Agarwal, Ishita Bhardwaj, Aditya Krishna, Yash Dhandhania, Utkarsh Agarwal, Sharat Nambiar, Yash Dhandhania, Saksham Goel, Udbhav Agarwal, Nikhil Bansal, Tejit Pabari, Aditya Vardhan Agarwal, Mudit Bajaj, Tanvir Singh Bal, Harshmani Bhaiya

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I will forever retain memories of the fleeting moments of 2013, for, this year Hyderabad House was able to distinguish itself across a wide spectrum of activities. Ranging from the sports field to the classrooms, our boys were able to manage their integrated lifestyles while maintaining their general proficiency to the highest standard in all fields.

The year began with the annual selection of the House’s Prefectorial Body, with Rahul Srivastava being nominated for the post of School Captain. Agni Raj Singh was appointed as the House Captain along with Rahul Srivastava, Kabir Sethi and Dhruv Prasad as prefects and Durgesh Agarwal and Suyash Bishnoi as House Monitors. With the House’s new leadership in place, our boys quickly entered the term, immersing themselves in academics as well as their various hobbies and pursuits. The term was packed with a fusion of competitive events, which our boys were able to tackle always emerging triumphant with flying colors. In the Inter-House Cricket Competition, the Nizams were able to bring honor to themselves and the House with their tremendous scores in all matches, narrowly missing the House Cup by a rainy match day. Kabir Sethi, Vedant Khanna, Pulkit Agarwal, Manan Dhandhania and Divij Kapoor gave note-worthy performances. Academics were another area of achievement for our House, for we received a considerable increase in the number of distinctions during Trials and Test Week. In the ICSE Board Examination, our students set a record breaking class average, with a majority of them scoring 90% and above. On the extra-curricular side, the House made its mark in the Debating and Dramatics fields, enthralling the School community with our performances. Fiery orators such as Rahul Srivastava, Arnav Joshi and Pulkit Agarwal, with their cogent rhetoric, were able to take back the Debating trophy for the second year in a row. Our play, Lakshmi Ka Swagat was highly acclaimed by all who witnessed it. With veteran actor Devesh Sharma and emerging talents such as Sarvashrest Singh and Yashraj Agarwal, we were able to put up a commendable show. The term ended on a high note with our successes in Hockey under the leadership of Dhruv Prasad and Hamza Khan, lifting both the Senior and House Hockey Cups.

Next term was no less of a successful term, for we were in for a win at every corner. We kicked off the football competition with star players such as Aamir Shah, Rajkumar Vijay, Dhruv Prasad and Devang Mehra leading the House. The hard-work and effort put in by our players proved to be of worth, with our teams prevailing as undefeated champions in both Junior and Senior categories, lifting all three cups. The House was also able to bring laurels in Music. Led by Imaan Pariat Metha, the House produced scintillating performances through musicians such as Parth Vohra, Amol Pajni, Yuvraj Nathani and Krishna Bharghava and dancers such as Agni Raj Singh, Nayan Manchanda and Palash Kanwar. These two exemplary laurels were not short-lived, for our wins in both Boxing and Athletics completed our clean sweep of the term.

Devang Mehra and Udayveer Singh emerged as the Best Athletes in the Junior and Senior Categories while Chirag Mittal won the Best Loser’s Trophy in Boxing.

Overall, the year proved to be a highly successful one for the House. Aside from our collective accomplishments, individual gains were always springing up. From top university offers to smashing sports records to performances on stage, Hyderabad House did it all, emanating stronger after every victory. We were always ready to take on new challenges and conquer any obstacle on the way to success. Our strive to accomplish this gargantuan feat was a collective effort by all members of the House. I thank the boys, tutors and staff for their contribution towards our successful completion of this year, and am confident that the House will perform with similar results in the coming years.

Mr Biren Chamola

Devesh Sharma Agni Raj Singh

House Colours

Durgesh Agarwal Vedant Khanna Dhruv Prasad

Imaan Mehta

Suyash Bishnoi

Yashraj Agarwal

Rahul Srivastava

Devang Mehra

Aamir Shah

Palash Kanwar

Nayan Manchanda

Arush Sood

Sarvashrest Singh

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Jaipur House

Housemaster Mr Rashid Sharfuddin Assistant Housemaster Dr Vidhukesh Vimal

House Captain Shivaan Seth

Prefects Ritesh Shinde Raniz Bordoloi Mahanaaryaman Scindia

Sitting (L to R): Mr Ishaan Saxena, Mr Samik Das, Uday Goyal, Mr Piyush Malviya, Ritesh Popat Shinde, Mrs Sonali Malviya, Raniz Bordoloi, Mr Rashid Sharfuddin, Shivaan Seth, Dr Vidhukesh Vimal, Mahanaaryaman J Scindia, Mr Rajesh Majumdar, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Mr Aloke Tirtha Bhowmick, Mr Chandan Singh Ghughtyal, Dr Srinivas Swamy, Mr Manoj Pandey Standing 1st Row: Kuldeep Bhaiyya, Josh Pasricha, Suryansh S Nevatia, Vrishankaditya P Parmar, Gursher Singh Chabba , Marut Garg, Harshvardhan Bansal, Sumer Sehgal, Saumil Agarwal, Utkarsh Jha, Divij Batra, Waseefullah Khan Sherwani, Hamza Khan, Zahaan Qureshi, Bipasha, Sachin Mehra, Saksham Arya, Yash Upadhyay, Jaideep Singh Gill, Vibhav Maheshwari, Bhagat Bhaiyya, Akhtar Bhaiyya Standing 2nd Row: Shashwat Arya, Tanmay Gupta, Tarang Garg, Rahil Chamola, Keshav Maliah, Ishan Jhawar, Arth Gupta, Abhinav Kejriwal, Chaitanya Hemant Agrawal, Viren Agarwal, Rohan Agarwal, Nihal Singh Dhilon, Gaurav Kothari, Dhruv Kharbanda, Sahir Chaudhary, Pratyaksh Singh Parmar, Ayush Tripathi, Yasir M Nizam, Suyash Raj Shivam, Umang Gupta, Aditya Vir Roy Standing 3rd Row: Jayaditayavir Singh, Ritvik Khare, Ritzy Pushpraj Rajaswi, Aditya Verma, Govind Singh Sandhu, Rishi Raj Deva, Shreyansh Pandey, Aditya Gandhi, Zayaan Jal Khodaiji, Arjun Singh Mann, Saket Golyan, Dilsher Brar, Anant Singh Mann, Arjun Singh Kapur, Atharva Shree Matta, Anirudh Gupta, Anubhav Agarwal, Udesh Pratap Singh Kairon, Sambhav Agarwal, Samrat Singh Rawat, Rohan Agarwal, Adityavardhan Bhardwaj Standing 4th Row: Kanav Ghai, Anandita Luther, Shashwat Gandhi, Aaryan Singla, Umang Garg, Advitya Goyal, Suchet Khurana, Vineet Puri, Varun Sehgal, Aneesh Chaudhary, Yash Mittal, Archit Bhartwal, Jehan Ankit Jhaveri, Arunav Vaish, Aman Agarwal, Hitansh Prakash Nagdev, Rithik Mohan Hingorani, Arnav Gupta, Ranveer Modi, Tushaar Sharma, Suryansh Kainthola, Kanav Agarwal, Akshat Jha, Rishabh Agarwal

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The year 2013 was a milestone year in the journey of Jaipur House that marked the successful completion of 75 years of its legacy. The year could be easily defined as the year of celebration and nostalgia, where Jaipur House took out time to look back at its heritage. The honor of continuing the legacy of the House was given to Shivaan Seth as House Captain, Ritesh Shinde, Raniz Bordoloi and Mahanaaryaman Scindia as Prefects. The members of the House led the School in not just one, but more than ten different fields. Be it either in the form of the School Football Captain, the School Hindi Debating Secretary, the Editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly or the School Music Captain.

Jaipur House has always chosen the balanced approach to the Dosco life, where an all round education is important for the complete Jaipur experience. It was proven when the House performed very well academically in the ICSE and ISC board exams, with Chaitanya Agarwal scoring 95.00% and Sambhav Agarwal scoring 96.00%. Commendable performance was also seen in the form of Ritesh Shinde in the ISC examination where he scored 96.00%. We also saw college placements at various Ivy League Universities including Cornell and Yale.

The term began with the Cricket season where rain turned out to be the spoil sport, however, Waseefullah Khan Sherwani proved his excellence by giving a fearless performance in the tournament which will be remembered for the years to come. The House then went on to prove its worth during the Inter-House PT competition, where the gong returned, once again to the walls of Jaipur House. The juniors came first and the seniors bagged the second position. The Headmaster rightly said in his speech after the Inter-House PT competition, “The gong is back where it belongs”. Then came the Hockey season where the junior performance was commendable, and the Senior’s secured the second position.

The House emerged as proud winners of the Hockey House Cup. The term finished on a high note with a breathtaking performance of Jaipur House on Jayaz Hatyare, a Hindi translation of the play “The Just Assassins” by Albert Camus, directed by Ritesh Shinde in the Inter-House OneAct Play Competition.

The Autumn Term began on a positive note with the House securing the first position in swimming. But the success did not end here, as the House went on to secure the second position in the Inter-House Football competition. The public speaking culture that has been developed in Jaipur House over the period of time saw many boys being actively involved in activities such as MUN and debating. It was a proud moment for the House when the House Hindi Debating team was also the School Hindi Debating team, which won, the Inter-House, and the InterSchool debate. Ritzy Rajaswi was the highlight of the Athletic Season when he came second in the five thousand meter run. This term was remarkably important in the journey of the house as it completed 75 years of its proud legacy. Jaipur House set a new standard for the School when it came to “making it large” as the House not only had Harley Davidson motorcycle as the first prize in the Pagal Gymkhana but also had huge amounts of donations coming in from Old Boys in order to provide the complete Jaipur experience. The term also saw the Jaipur House common room being refurbished. The new additions of the SC-from lounge in the Kennedy Room and the reading room further enhanced the living standards of the boys. The colors, lights, safas, the singing brought the Rajasthani culture alive during the Pagal Gymkhana celebrations.

Mr Gurdayal Singh, Ex-Housemaster and Ex-Deputy Headmaster, fondly know as “guru” was the Chief Guest of the 75th year celebrations.

The House also set up the “Bond Fund” which was formed as a result of donations from Old Boys in order to commemorate the 75th year celebrations.

The School recognized the contribution of Jaipur House boys by awarding Shivaan Seth, Ritesh Shinde, and Karan Kairon School Colours.

They say it is the journey that counts and not the destination. The journey for Jaipur House took a sentimental and heart touching turn when we bid farewell to not only our SC-form boys, but also to our beloved Housemasters, Mr Sanjiv Bathla and Mr Rashid Sharfuddin.

Dr Vidhukesh Vimal

House Colours

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Kashmir House

Housemaster Mr Anjan Chaudhary Assistant Housemaster Mr Manu Mehrotra

House Captain Madhav Dutt

Prefects Kunal Kanodia Rishabh Tusnial Abhishek Kakkar

Sitting (L to R): Harshil Aggarwal, Mr Aditya Sharma, Mr Partho Roy Chaudhary, Mr Philip Burrett, Mr Ashad Quezilbash, Aahan Menon, Mr Kamal Ahuja, Abhishek Kakkar, Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui, Madhav Dutt, Mr Anjan Chaudhary, Rishabh Tusnial, Ms Purnima Dutta, Kunal Kanodia, Mrs Sarabjeet Sandhu, Namanshree Jain, Mrs Anez Katre, Apekshit Goel, Mr Ramesh Kumar Bhardwaj, Mr Chit Ranjan Kagdee, Mr Mohit Sinha Standing 1st Row (L to R): Malini Malviya, Jai Singh Yadav, Arnav Goyal, Yash Malhotra, Orijit Chatterjee, Shubham Agarwal, Diksha Makhija Standing 2nd Row (L to R): Shivam Sharma, Sanjeet Suhag, Aashim Bansal, Mihir Kiran, Pranjalya Shukla, Sarthak Gupta, Aditya Bhattacharya, Kunal Srivastava, Suhel Karara, Vatsal Agarwal, Nihal Sharma, Raghav Bansal, Anmol Jain, Devesh Sahai, Jai Ahuja, Sabhya Katia, Shubham Sikaria, Ritvik Kar, Digvijay Gupta, Ayuushman Aroraa, Gopalji Bhaiyya Standing 3rd Row (L to R):Pratyush Bharati, Shrey Aryan, Vivan Sharma, Codanda Cariapa Chengappa, Madhav Agarwal, Dhruv Ahuja, Sabir Singh, Samarjeet Singh, Amal Agarwal, Azan Brar, Naman Lodha, Saksham Garg, Akhil Ranjan, Ishmaam Chowdhury, Rishabh Agarwal, Arnaav Bhavnani, Devansh Agarwal, Laksh Sharaf, Aditya Mahehswari, Omar Chishti, Rishank Kala, Jaivir Puri, Rudra Srtivastava, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Das, Chinmaya Sharma Standing 4th Row (L to R): Vijay Bhaiyya, Udai Nath Behl, Anant Mohan, Nikunj Agarwal, Ajitesh Gupta, Siddharth Jain, Sarvagya Dhiman, Shreyansh Agarwal, Madhav Bhardwaj, Raihan Vadra, Kartik Malik, Siddhant Kumar, Tanay Agarwal, Aviral Garg, Vivek Vishwanathan, Ashvin Solanki, Arpit Chaddha, Vedant Mehra, Vathsal Kumar Gupta, Smrithi Nair, Aterya Guruprasad, Sunil Bhaiyya Standing 5th Row (L to R): Ashwath Madhok, Anirudh Popli, Savar Khanna, Abhishek Pande, Advait Ganapathy, Bharat Choudhary, Mihir Gupta, Ishaan Vaish, Tanishk Saha, Tanya Makhija, Nalini Malviya, Kartik Mohan, Rushil Goyal, Aryaman Saluja, Saatvik Chaudhari, Prakarsh Gupta

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Every House has its own character and Kashmir House once again lived up to its name “The House Of Gentlemen” this year. The House performed in all fronts this year and this was primarily possible because of the congenial relationship of the seniors and the juniors. The Year began with the appointment of the new prefectorial body: Madhav Dutt (House Captain), Kunal Kanodia, Rishabh Tusnial and Abhishek Kakkar.

Some of the highlights of the year are mentioned below.

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The School Football team, after a two years gap, had three boys from the House and Aahan Menon was selected for the Nationals.

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The boys in the Badminton Team brought back the Inter House Cup.

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Kunal Kanodia and Rishabh Tusnial were awarded the Scholar’s Blazer.

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The publications have been a great feature of this House and this year was no exception with the introduction of a new publication called the “Grandslam”.

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Social Service is at the core of The Doon School education and after our state was hit by the devastation in the Kedarnath Valley, the boys of Kashmir House had worked during midterms in the villages of Uttarkashi beginning a long-term process.

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Another very important development in the House has been the initiatives that the boys have taken in the School. This year we have seen a number of activities where boys have showcased their talent of good leadership in the Model United Nations, The Young Entrepreneur’s Conference or involvement in the Founder’s Day programme in various capacities. It was heartening to see that many of the Chairpersons during DSMUN 2013 were from Kashmir House, apart from the fact that the largest numbers of delegates were from this House. I must add that the involvement of students in Founder’s day program was also at an all time high.

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The performance of the Music team in the House needs to be commended. Namanshree Jain was awarded the Best Musician Award which exemplifies his passion for music.

Facilities in Kashmir House have constantly been upgraded and the conference room is ready and functional.

House Colours

I would like to thank Mr Manu Mehrotra for his contribution in shaping Kashmir House. I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Mr Manish Pant-Assistant Housemaster, for all his support in running the house. The Dame, along with her team has played her part and the house has looked in great order. The SC form played a big part in mentoring the boys of the House and the performance of the House was one of the best I have seen in a decade. I always stick to my principle of “not winning at all cost and rather focusing on the process”. The reason I say this is that it is important to hold on to the performance for a long time and not just have one great year. The tutors of the House play a significant role and I want to thank them for all their efforts. The role of the adults in pastoral is always important and primarily handling adolescence today is a challenging task. Finally, I want to acknowledge the efforts of the boys who have played their part together and once again validated my vision of remaining a House over individuals.

Mr Anjan Chaudhary

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Oberoi House

Housemaster Mr Manu Mehrotra Assistant Housemaster Mr Nitin Chauhan

House Captain Nipurn Dutta

Prefects Nakul Talwar Vishal Tummala Suraj Bishnoi

Sitting (L to R): Mr Arnab Mukherjee, Mr K P S Tomar, Varun Michael Pais, Mr Devender Kumar Mishra, Vatsal Goenka, Mr Sudhir Thapa, Arihant Arora, Mr Shrey Nagalia, Vishal Tummula, Mr Nitin Chauhan, Nipurn Dutta, Mr Manu Mehrotra, Suraj Bishnoi, Mrs Anuroop Jouhal, Nakul Talwar, Mr Deepak Sharma, Rishabh Chadda, Mr Praveen Dwivedi, Divyant Sapra, Ms Priya Chauhan, Siddharth Bhardwaj Standing 1st Row (L to R): Sudhansh Agarwal, Armaan Imam, Ashish Verma, Kartikeya Jain, Ritesh Devnani, Pranjal Bhatt, Lanka Adarsh, Abhijit Kejriwal, Himanshu Poddar, Anshul Tibrewal, Shreshta Khetan, Vinayak Chaudhary, Shreyansh Chheda, Prabnur Bal, Sarthak Katiyar, Arjun Kamdar, Sai Swayam Samal Standing 2nd Row (L to R): Siddharth Pahuja, Vrindam Nagpal, Vishesh Khetan, Tanishq Agarwala, Aditya Mallik, Dhruv Johri, Tejveer Kohli, Sarthak Choudhary, Nachiket Jain, Shourya Kishorepuria, Ruhaan Dev Tyagi, Harshvardhan Singh, Sabharsh Sidhu, Akshay Sarawgi, Rishavraj Das, Madhav Gurtoo, Adhiraj Choudhary, Shiven Kumar, Salman Malik, Vansh Aggarwal, Sikandar Suri, Aditya Gupta Standing 3rd Row (L to R): Ayush Sarawgi, Siddheshwar Hans, Agastya Shetty, Karan Sethy, Mukul Goyal, Parth Khanna, Ishaan Kapoor, Yogesh Agarwal, Madhav Singhal, Yugvansh Chawla, Arya Karnal, Samrath Bal, Arunabh Uttkarsh, Rishith Agarwal, Yashvansh Cawla, Mukul Goyal, Lakshay Varshney, Manan Pradhan, Vedant Agarwal, Varun Singh, Atrey Bhargava, Kartavya Nagpal, Vallavi Shukla Standing 4th Row (L to R): Rishi Choudhary, Naman Agarwal, Chaitanya Gulati, Utsav Dutt Sharma, Angad Singh Trehan, Vihaan Bhatnagar, Rahul Garg, Parth Aggarwal, Arhant Khullar, Madhav Goel, Samarth Juneja, Tanmay Nautiyal, Saksham Bhalotia, Ishan Garg, Aaditya Shah, Samarth Bhardwaj, Atharva Shukla, Anvay Grover, Ananay Sethi, Vaibhav Chandak, Shreshth Mehra, Yash Killa, Kunal Verma, Talin Aggarwal, Krishna Goyal, Dhruv Neil Pais

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The year 2013 was an extremely successful one for Oberoi House. It began with the appointment of the House Captain Nipurn Dutta and the prefects, Nakul Talwar, Vishal Tummala and Suraj Bishnoi. The first event of year was the Inter House Cricket Competition, in which the House prevailed thanks to some inspiring performances put up by Rishabh Chaddha and his team. This victorious start to the year helped set the wheels in motion for the year forthcoming.

We won the Inter House Poetry Competition under the leadership of Anshul Tibrewal, before clinching the Inter-House One Act Play Trophy.

The One Act Play was perhaps one of the defining moments of the term for Oberoi House, as we swept all but one of the categories in the competition. It was a fine reward for the work that had been put in by Himanshu Poddar, supported in the technical area and stage managing

by Varun Pais and Vinayak Chaudhary. While our performance in hockey might have left something to be desired, there was certainly no question of the boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dedication toward the sport or their will to improve.

The House delivered commendable performancse on the academic front as well. In the ICSE examinations Kanishka Dev Tyagi and Kartikeya Jain secured and aggregate of 95.4, while Vidit Sidana was the ISC topper with a magnificent 97%. Vidit certainly set an example for the rest of the House, one I hope they will follow for many years to come. All these achievements had a cumulative effect, and Oberoi House was up and running for the Dosco Cup. We continued the second term with the same zeal and vigour that had characterized Oberoi Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spring Term. We won the Inter House Chess Competition, for which credit is due to Parth Khanna who despite being in A-Form managed to secure the Chess Cup. The House also did well on the debating front, with the juniors reaching the final round.

It would be fair to say that even though Oberoi House did not win many laurels in the Autumn Term, it was the most consistent house of all.

The versatility of the residents of our House shone through, as we always managed respectful and creditable performances in each of the events. This versatility ultimately led to the House winning the Doon School Cup, a definite validation that Oberoi has been consistent during the year. I am sure that each of the house members must have been full of pride when the House Captain went down to collect the trophy.

Moreover, we won the Academic Cup, demonstrating that Oberoi House truly excels across all fields of activity at Doon, be it academics, sports or co-curricular events. This certainly bode well for the future of Oberoi House as we know that there are many truly capable students here.

Running a House is not an individual event; there is always a team behind and I am blessed with a very good one! I would like to thank everyone who has been associated with the House over the past year; all the tutors, Assistant House Master Mr Nitin Chauhan, the Dame Mrs Jouhal and of course, the flesh and blood of the House, the boys.

The plan for the forthcoming years is to continue in the same vein, and to develop kind, courteous, reliable and resilient gentlemen as we have been doing over the previous years.

Mr Manu Mehrotra

Nipurn Datta Vatsal Goenka Divyant Sapra

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Himanshu Poddar Suraj Bishnoi Rishabh Chadda Nakul Talwar Varun Pais Pranjal Bhatt Vishal Tummala Anshul TIbrewal 147

Tata House

Housemaster Mr Skand Bali Assistant Housemaster Mr Ashish Dean

House Captain Zorawar Singh

Prefects Jai Khanna Vikramaditya Kapur Chaitanya Fatehpuria

Sitting (L to R): Mr Vivek Kumar, Agasthya Bellad, Mr Rahul Luther, Udbhav Agarwal, Mr Michael James, Raghav Kothiwal, Mr Shadeep Adhikari, Vikramaditya Kapur, Mr Ashish Dean, Zorawar Singh, Mr Skand Bali, Sidharth Sethi, Mrs Ranjit Kaur, Chaitanya Fatehpuria, Dr Mohan Chandra Joshi, Jai Khanna, Mr Ambikesh Shukla, Kushagra Singh, Mrs Meeta Sharma, Mr Arvind Dethe, Mr Ankur Khare Standing 1st row(L to R): Sayuj Dhandhania, Arjun Sharma, Shaurya Agarwal, Eshaan Bhardwaj, Harsh Singhania, Rishikant Sharma, Arjun Rao, Ishan Sandhu, Sehaj Singh Jouhal, Shivan Tandon, Kartikey Luthra, Jairaj Sadana, Kartikey Pandey, Sidharth Sarin, Farhan Anis Standing 2nd row(L to R): Shrey Kapoor, Paramdeep Singh, Yuvan Kumar, Dhananjay Bansal, Amartya Bhowmick, Krishan Dadu, Naadir Singh, Sidhraj Tomar, Shiv Cheema, Yash Meel, Mrigank Khemka, Madhav Khirwar, Yasser Iqbal, Rishi Raaj Khan, Prakhar Bhanu, Rishabh Sharma, Husain Haider , Aditya Dhingra Standing 3rd row(L to R): Arnav Kumar, Raghav Gupta, Ujjwal Maheshwari, Shubham Dhiman, Laksh Saraf, Pranav Kothiwal, Rahul Agarwal, Suryansh Agarwal, Nikhil Fatehpuria, Nirvan Dogra, Shashank Mittal, Samarth Makhija, Aryaman Panwar, Angad Singh Shergill, Shikhar Trivedi, Nitin Sardana, Krishna Lohiya, Jairaj Lamba, Karan Dhillon, Nasir Iqbal, Siddharth Mishra, Kanav Agarwal, Kartikey Kardam, Anuvrat Choudhary, Kshitij Goel, Anirudh Batra, Jagjit Singh

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The ethos of Tata House has instilled in the boys an empowering sense of responsibility and aptitude for determination. The ‘warriors’, as we are commonly known, were true to their essence this year. As the year began with great fortune, after a gap of ten years we had an elected school captain from our house in the form of Sidharth Sethi. The appointments to the prefectorial body were Zorawar Singh as the House Captain, Jai Khanna, Vikramaditya Kapur and Chaitanya Fatehpuria as School Prefects. The boys of the house also lead the school in other capacities as well. Ashish Rao was School Hockey Captain, Ishan Sandhu was School Squash Captain, Sidharth Sethi was School Athletics Captain and Raghav Kothiwal the School Table Tennis Captain. Udbhav Agarwal was elected as the School Library Council Secretary and was also appointed as the Editor in chief of the Infinity magazine.

Like in the past, this year the boys have brought laurels and good name to the House. Our warriors have excelled in almost every field. Their performance on and off the field has been commendable. As a housemaster I take pride in enlightening you about all the successes of the house this past year. With much hard work and effort the seniors won the Inter House Table Tennis and the Physical Training Competitions.

Despite the effort, we narrowly lost the basketball, debating and football competitions. With the guidance and co-operation of seniors, the juniors won Inter House Football, Basketball and English debating competitions and came second in Athletics. The Athletics mediums team won their category in the Inter House Competition. At the house level, the combined effort of our juniors and seniors won us the Basketball, English Debating and Squash House cups. This very same effort also helped us achieve the second position in the Dance, Choir and Instrumental Solo competitions.

After massive amounts of hard work and great determination, Udbhav Aggarwal, Shaurya Aggarwal, Raghav Kothiwal and Chaitanya Fatehpuria were awarded the Scholar’s Blazer. On ther other hand, for their passion and skill Raghav Kothiwal, Ishan Sandhu, Ashish Rao and Shivan Tandon were awarded the Games’ Blazer. As a Housemaster I awarded the Housemaster’s Appreciation Letter to Devansh Sharma, Shubham Dhiman, Nikhil Saraf and Rishikant Sharma for their outstanding contribution and commitment towards the House.

For their further studies, the boys received some exceptional offers from universities such as Lancaster University, London School of Economics and Political Science, Cornell, Columbia, Durham University, Bath, Kent, Warwick, York, St. Andrews, Southampton, HKU, Pomona, DePauw, Knox, Tufts and many more reputable institutions. Academically the boys have produced excellent IB, ICSE and ISC results this year. Raghav Kothiwal has topped ISC in School, with a 97.25% and Udbhav Agarwal topped IB in School with 43 grades. With a considerable number of boys securing above 90% in both the ISC and the ICSE examinations.

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Mr Ashish Dean, our Assistant Housemaster is a man of no sleep and only hard work. He is always there for the boys, teaching them, counseling them, and helping them and most importantly with a smile. I would like to acknowledge Dr Dean for all that he has done for the boys and the house. Along with sir, completing my team is our House dame Mrs Ranjit Kaur. She has been a mother away from home for the boys. Mrs Kaur’s efforts in the smooth running of the House cannot be explained in words. We are indebted to her for all her support and care. The tutors of the House have been a great support throughout the year. I have no hesitation in saying that our tutors are putting in tireless efforts into grooming the young boys. I have always found them standing by the boys and me in every hour of need. I thank them all for their love for the house. Last, but by no means the least, I want to appreciate all the boys of the House. They all have made me proud as the Housemaster. They have all put in a great effort to make this year a memorable one for the House. I would like to convey to all my boys that as the Housemaster I am immensely proud of them and I can say with great belief that our House will move from strength to strength and touch greater heights in the years to come.

Mr Skand Bali

Zorawar Singh Jai Khanna Shivan Tandon Agastya Bellad Udbhav Agarwal Sehaj Singh Jouhal Raghav Kothiwal 149

Foot House

Housemaster Mr Debashish Chakrabarty

Sitting (L to R): Mr Inderjit Singh, Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya, Mrs Amrit Burrett, Anant Jain, Mr Debashish Chakrabarty, Kriti Luther, Mrs Abia Quezilbash, Mrs Kanchan Shukla, Mr Pankaj Joshi Standing 1st Row (L to R): Aayush Choudhry, Kishan, Dhruv Jindal, Yadhuraj Rathi, Armaan T Verma, Paarth Agarwal, Ojas Kharbandha, Mahip Agrawal, Darsh Garg, Ratnaditya Sinh Chavda, Shivendra Pratap Singh, Siddhant Singhania, Shishpal, Sparsh Agarwal Standing 2nd Row (L to R): Deepchand, Yatharth Gupta,Divyansh Pandey, Eshaan Bhardwaj, Hamza Hussain, Rohin Agrwal, Aviraj Singh Macchre, Riyan Aggarwal, Siddhant Jain, Devang Laddha, Shashwat Bansal, Rajendra Standing 3rd Row (L to R): Deepak Dhiman, Kushagra Kar, Abhiraj Lamba, Pritish Dugar, Raghav Grover, Devansh Rawat, Dhruv Garg, Amogh Tiwari Standing 4th Row (L to R): Kanav Agarwal, Rishabh Dev, Kunal Gupta, Gunit Mittal, Kushagra Bansal, Prabhav Maheshwari, Kanishk Kanodia

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I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

-Arne Jacobsen Only the father of Architectural Functionalism could have spoken in such pragmatic terms about boarding school life. The Doon, of course, is a lot more than a functionalist paradigm; it became the cradle of creativity for the Batch of 2019 who joined us in 2013. The boys were mentored

by Ms Namrata Pandey, Mrs Abia Qezilbash, Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya, Mrs Amrit Burrett , Mr Pankaj Joshi and Ms Inderjit Singh. Ms Kanchan Shukla mothered them in her role as the dame of the House.

April saw the induction of 39 students joined the House in April 2013—38 boys and one girl (Kriti Luther). The students went for their midterms to The Himalayan Adventure Institute, in the Spring term. The boys did a 24 km trek, rock climbing, river crossing, and associated adventure activities. The first few days of D form of 2013, saw 8 boys participating at various levels in the inter-House hockey competition and 10 boys participating in inter-house swimming competition. Special mention is already due to Ayush Chowdhary for badminton and tennis; Kushagra Kar, Rohin Agarwal, and Kanishk Kanodia for their efforts with the School Swimming Team.

A special initiative of Armaan T Verma and Devang Laddha along with Ojas Kharbanda saw the Foot House start a House Library from 2013 Spring. The students ran all aspects of the library from accessioning, maintenance of the borrowing register to stock taking. Most critically, the batch took initiative and twice donated from their Boys’ Bank account to purchase books for the House Library.

The House piloted a Social Service initiative with the Bajaj Institute of Learning. All the boys were trained in the Indian Sign Language (ISL) system by a teacher who came from the Bajaj Institute twice a week. The boys interacted with children of the Bajaj Institute, who are hearing impaired, using the ISL. We are looking for avenues to begin other collaborative learning and service projects with the Bajaj Institute.

Given the heavy rains and landslides in Uttaranchal, in the Autumn mid-term, the entire House went to nearby to a camp run by Indo-Ganga Holidays at Shivpuri, Rishikesh escorted by Ms Pandey, Mr Joshi and the Housemaster. The students did various activities like rafting, flying fox, daily trekking , rappelling, etc. The House also played a quick Inter-House beach football tournament. The nights were spent in inter-dormitory drama presentations.

Every batch that goes through Foot House develops a particular flavor and style. If the batch of 2013 is to be remembered, it will be for their fabulous efforts at bringing out three editions of the Foot House Wall magazine, Footprints; presenting two fully rehearsed plays on Golden Night’s eve, based on Armaan Verma’s book on Greek Gods, to which the Headmaster was invited; and, starting an in-House Library with a handsome donation of books by Ojas Kharbanda. In the House, every boy had specific responsibility and was given SUPW hours for his work.

The responsibilities ranged from record keeping activities (e.g. House Good Chit register, Social Service register, etc.) to disciplinary (Dorm monitor, Toye monitor, etc.) and creative (Editors and Producers of The Footprints Wall Magazine).

On the academic front, in the Spring term the house aggregated 81.41% and in the Autumn term with 79.86%. In the Autumn trials, the House had 13 distinctions and 21 commendations. There was a record 24 Asset test Distinctions this year. Armaan T Verma did the House proud as the student-author who was also House representative in the Library Council while Kushagra represented Foot House in the School Study Council. While both Armaan Verma and Kudhagra Kar won the Gold level in the Junior Reading Awards, Shashwat, Devang Kaishk and Parth achieved the Silver level of the Junior Reading Awards; and Riyan, Kanav, Ayush and Dhruv achieved the Bronze level. 24 boys got distinction in the Duke TiP, 10 of them were invited to the Level 3 workshop and Summer Study group. Ayush Chowdhary and Anant Jain topped the National creativity Olympiad. All boys participated in the three editions of the Footprints. Shashwat Bansal received a Merit in the Trinity Grade 3 Drums exam. There were 23 Merits and 3 Distinctions in LAMDA this year.

In sports, Ayush Chowdhary won the Gold medal in the IPSC Tennis Tournament U-14 category. Rohin Agarwal and Kushagra Bansal played inter-School squash, Rohin was also selected for Squash Nationals. Rishabh Dev represented the School at the District level in athletics. Virtually all boys represented either the Foot House or their respective House’s Junior squads in some sport or the other.

February 2013 saw the 12 new C-form boys joining the House. The students moved on to their respective main houses on the 25 March, 2013.

The Batch of 2013 Foot House would certainly have us believe that there is a brilliant student locked inside every child, one just needs to know the right combination to open the locks. Cheers to the Batch of 2019 on a fruitful journey to become the rightful heirs to the Dosco mantle!

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Martyn House

Housemistress Ms Stuti Kuthiala

Sitting (L to R): Mr Jitendra Tiwari, Mrs Priyanka Majumdar, Aditya Kapoor, Mr Avijit Chattopadhyay, Mahir Kasewa, Ms Stuti Kuthiala, Ishan Roy, Mrs Priya Chaturvedi, Abhyanshu Utkarsh, Mrs Malvika Bhatt, Dr Mona Khanna Standing 1st Row(L to R): Rajveer Singh Kochar, Milind Khemka, Aditya Saboo, Rishit Thakur, Aditya Vikram Singh, Gaurav Bhandari, Tarush Bansal, Aakash Mohan, Shiven Dewan, Raghav Sanjiv Dalmia, Mubaraq Jay Mehta, Sanidhya Mittal Standing 2nd Row(L to R): Anuman Goel, Abyudaye Gupta, Kabir Singh Kochar, Yash Gupta, Lakshman Santhanam, Zoraver Mehta, Viksit Verma, Stanzin Deskyong Namgyal, Dhruv Gupta,Ribhu Raj Khan, Aru Vashisht Maratha, Ranvijay Singh, Ishaan Mauli Mishra, Siddharth Dwivedi Standing 3rd Row(L to R): Aaditya Gupta, Anish Bhide, Dhairya Rastogi, Yash Dewan, Ravi Bhayya, Samarvir Singh Mundi, Harrsh Dewan, Shaurya Jain, Agastya Bhargava

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Years from now, when these fresh-faced young boys, having grown older and wiser, will turn the pages of this Yearbook and see this photograph of themselves, I wonder what memories will be rekindled for them? Good ? Bad? Incredible?

That their first year at Doon was a life-altering one, will certainly be a common one. Many of them will have an indelible memory of that first parting from family. That first meal eaten in spotless white kurta-pajamas in a dining hall teeming with fierce looking seniors. That first night of either an all out bawling session or stifling sobs into their pillows. Of course, there are many who could barely contain their excitement and were raring to go!

The tutors of the House and I are agreed that we have had a great year with this batch. There was a wonderful mix of characters and personalities which added a richness to every experience. On midterms, day and night outs, at meals, toyes, during House matches, on routine days and on myriad other occasions, the group was always a cohesive unit. Along with having fun, they learnt the necessary skills required for a healthy community life. There were some cases of homesickness, of academic and sporting setbacks, adjustments to be made in friendships, anxieties and upheavals that sometimes accost eleven year old lives. But nothing held this lot back for long. They tried their best to open their innings in School with every talent that they possessed. So, we saw some budding musicians, chess players, photographers, sportsmen, artists, actors, debaters and scholars step out to represent themselves and their Main Houses in a variety of foruMs Most gained recognition and are continuing to pursue their passions as they course through C form.

It is always heartening to hear words of praise regarding the boys of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House from those who interact with them on various levels. So when several Masters in School, on separate occasions, commended these boys for being well-mannered, punctual, polite and well-spoken, it made all of us, who take care of their character development, feel very satisfied.

The tutors of the House ABC, PCH, MAK, MLB, DNJ, JTR and myself along with the Dame, PMR, are relentless in inculcating gentlemanly ways in the boys as we all regard it an essential part of their education here at Doon. Whether at meal tables, in the dorms, on the playing fields or in the corridors of the School, no breach of decent conduct is allowed to take place. Not only did this batch progress on the academic and co curricular fronts but also took heed of developing finer sensibilities and improving their personalities.

With every new batch that one receives each April, one hopes for a happy and productive year ahead. We had similar expectations from this D form batch of Martynis that moved on to the Main Houses in March,2013, and I can declare with complete conviction that they all did us proud.

Ms Stuti Kuthiala

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Headmaster’s Speech Dr Peter McLaughlin

Looking back over the past twelve months, despite wider anxieties about the state of the economy in particular and the nation in general, it has been a good year for the rising generation of Doscos. The common feature of that period has been that we are bucking a number of national and international trends.

For a start, just in our continued existence we are defying a global trend. Boys’ boarding schools are either disappearing across the world or becoming coeducational or not being built at all, so our sector is a rapidly diminishing proportion of the global educational pie chart – no-one is building boys-only, fully boarding schools for the 12-18 age group on large, beautiful campuses.

There is no money in it, it seems, so we are an increasingly rare species: in the UK, there used to be hundreds like us; now there are only six schools of this nature.

In academics, we are bucking the worldwide trend of boys’ underachievement. Everywhere, including India, girls are outperforming boys in admissions and attainment at school and university levels. At Doon this year we had record levels of attainment at ICSE and ISC, as well as at the IB level. We are one of thefew IB schools, and the only major one anywhere in India, offering a dual curriculum with the same teachers delivering the two systems for the same fee.

Our university and college placements at home and abroad are going from strength to strength, with two of our ISC boys going to IITs straight from Class XII under the new rules for admission.

Yet, in general, all around the world, while girls’ results are improving, boys’ results are lagging.

We are also bucking the trend towards a narrower and narrower education for boys and girls; never have there been so many sports and activities at Doon, and for those who have been here over the past two days or in this Rose Bowl last night, you will have seen that the standard is excellent and even outstanding – the latter is a much overused word, but true of a great deal of what our masters and students do in and out of the classroom. There is a good deal of lip service paid to the importance of co-curricular and extra-curricularactivities in many schools, but fewer and fewer boys and girls are being given a genuine all-round education simply because most educational systems around the world seem to have ceased to believe in it as a vehicle for human progress. Oh, they will talk and talk about it, but do they actually deliver it?

There is a tragic obsession with statistical measures of attainment, often for the good and sad reason that attainment in the past was and still is too low for too many children around the world, but it is quite swiftly strangling what I and most of you here today would call a genuinely good education. If you look at what the increasingly widespread model of education around the nation and the world is actually telling us, a huge amount of what we do at The Doon School is a colossal waste of time when the students could be mugging up their books and going for tuitions in the pursuit of marks.

But the question then remains, if much, if not most, of the world of education is turning its back on a Doon School education, does that not mean that what we do here is increasingly irrelevant?

Does it not mean that the Doon model of education – satisfying and edifying as it might be – is like our tigers: majestic, beautiful, but ultimately doomed?

To answer that question, I would like briefly to examine an odd phenomenon.

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There is a strange paradox loose in the world today, and that is, the more we know, the less we seem to understand, and the more knowledge we accumulate, the less we behave in alignment with that knowledge. “How did this happen?!” seems to be on everyone’s lips, whether it is the financial collapse of 2008 or disasters afflicting the human habitat, or the political upheavals and turmoil across the globe. We have vast oceans of what we call knowledge in the form of “big data” and digitally stored material, but the more we have, the poorer we seem to be at using it. Not only are we asking, like the stunned survivors of a plane crash, “How did this happen?”, but we are also still asking, “How on Earth do we get out of this mess?” – this mess that we endlessly discuss and debate and analyze.

The more we know about industrial pollutants, the more we poison the oceans and pump sewage and toxic chemicals into the Yamuna and Ganga and the waves of the Indian Ocean we sing so respectfully about in Doon School’s Song No. 1, the national anthem; the more we know about sharks and their vital importance in the health of the oceans and know that only 15-20 people around the world are killed by sharks a year, the more our irrational fears and greed make us justify killing over 100 million of them a year; the more we know about the delicate ecology of the Himalaya, the more we blow them up and blast them and build inappropriately in them; the more we know about the harmful effects of junk food and the addictive nature of sugar, the more we stuff into our faces; the more we know about the serious physical and mental effects of sleep deprivation, the less sleep we take. The more we know about economics, and the more complex are the computer models we create, the more we and the markets lurch around like drunken sailors on the deck of a ship wallowing in stormy seas. Do we ever stop to think how often we see business news that states: “US economy fails to meet forecasts”, “Indian manufacturing sector falls short of forecasts”, “unemployment figures exceed predictions” running across the bottom of our TV screens? Who is making these predictions and forecasts? There should be a permanent ticker tape at the bottom of the TV screen saying: “Economic analysts got it wrong again today” – that’s the real story. I have a simple, what I think is a creative solution to a big problem. Have you noticed that every time someone appears on TV these days, a little sign floats on the screen telling you how smoking can kill you? Well, every time an economist appears, there should be a little floating sign saying, “Warning: Economists have a lot of data but can be dangerous to your financial and economic health” - and no economists should be allowed to appear on TV without an extra-large T-shirt printed with their previous predictions on it so that we can see how good they are at forecasting.

The problem, in my view, lies in the rapidly deteriorating quality of the education we are offering, which is largely driven by what it takes to get into the most sought after universities and colleges. Most of you will be aware of the forgery scandal in the admissions office at Delhi University in 2011, and we are all too aware of the cutoff culture which dominates admissions. But even when the students get to institutions which have become the object of worship and almost universal desire, the education on offer can be seriously deficient. Anyone who has spent any time making a detailed enquiry into the Harvard cheating scandal of last year, in which 125 students were accused of cheating on an exam, and what led up to the incident, will be shocked and dismayed by the low academic and ethical standards of those involved on both sides, and how debased undergraduate education has become in some of the world’s universities. Before getting carried away about elite universities, every parent should read Tom Wolfe’s novel I am Charlotte Simmons; it is set at Dupont university, a fictional blend of Ivy League universities which examines a student culture which focuses on acquiring material wealth, on the hedonistic pursuit of physical pleasure and acquiring social status, with academics a mere incidental in achieving those goals. Professor Allan Bloom, a philosophy professor at Cornell, wrote a searing critique of the poverty of modern college education in The Closing of the American Mind in the 1980s, but, like most prophets, he was initially a sensation, and then dismissed and forgotten as a crank.

Our own National Knowledge Commission Working Party on Engineering Education reported in 2008: “Engineering education consists of three well-defined aspects knowledge, knowhow, and character…Character is perhaps the most important component but character building processes are difficult to define and implement.” Now, I have selected engineering because conventional wisdom suggests that engineers need technical competence most – but read the report and you will discover a different perspective. So, we know from the Knowledge Commission what our main educational objective should be, building character but guess what we have been doing with this knowledge – and more studies and reports like it? There they are, piling up all over the world, millions and millions of digitally generated words in report after report about creativity and innovation and what it takes to be an effective leader. Guess how most children in the world are spending their days in classrooms and grades factories and tuitions?

My academic studies as a professional historian and professional career in education have directed me to seeing two huge human deficits: foresight and “joined up thinking”. F. Scott Fitzgerald of The Great Gatsby fame once opined that intelligence is the ability to hold two apparently contradictory ideas in your head simultaneously. I agree with that up to a point, but I also see intelligence as the ability to go beyond that and to be about thinking in multiple dimensions.

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We educators and policy makers, for the most part in the world, are trapping our students in a narrow two dimensional world of simple memorization – and even then the predominant teaching methodologies make the remembering forgettable within hours. Even at the highest level, I interview science PhDs who have no clue about how to answer the simplest questions one of our boys might ask about the application of knowledge, never mind the rest. So what if you are a topper in what is essentially a memory test? Spelling bees are even worse.

Why memorize bizarre and arcane words which the vast majority of normal human beings will never use in anything they do? We talk about the “knowledge economies of the twenty-first century” – but all economies have been knowledge economies since the dawn of human history. What we really mean is “creativity and innovation economies”, and I would add that the most urgent problem of the twenty-first century is to create “wisdom economies”. But instead, unless they are lucky to go to a school such as Doon, we are condemning our children all across the world to educational processes which have turned off the tap of creativity and originality in the pursuit of two-dimensional judgments, which we also know as grades, percentages, marks and cutoffs, on our students. This is what education has become, and I shall tell you two true stories: The American Mercury space programme of the late 1950s and early 1960s had sent flies, mice, dogs into space, but did not know what effects space would have on hominids. So they chose the one closest to us, the chimpanzee, which shares 98% of its DNA with us, to see what the effects of space flight and weightlessness would be. The training programme sought to find out what would happen to our ability to think and react in space. Sequences of lights were flashed on the console in front of the chimps and they had five seconds to react by flicking a certain switch for a particular colour of light. The method used was positive punishment; if the chimp got it right, he was given a banana pellet, if wrong little steel plates strapped to his feet - (are you listening boys, this is coming to a classroom near you?) – gave him electric shocks through the soles of his little chimpanzee feet. Not surprisingly, these little fellows became faster than an adrenalin-fuelled company CEO jabbing at his Blackberry keyboard, they were like mad organists on a Casio keyboard the way they played the switches on the console. The problem was that they became depressed and started to have high blood pressure and generally show symptoms of stress. The first one blasted into space was Ham, and he did the business like a champion. His reactions were a little slower. When he came back and the scientists opened the space capsule, there was our tiny hero sitting relaxed in the capsule with his little crash helmet on his head. But when they tried to get him out, he went crazy and tried to bite and kill the white-coated scientists with clipboards who thought he would be glad to see them. Now, you have to have a pretty negative view of your education, training and teachers to prefer being in a tiny metal capsule blasted into space on top of 1,000 tons of highly explosive rocket fuel, whizz round the Earth in weightless conditions, flick the switches like a wizard, and go through re-entry through the Earth’s burning atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour.

Boys and girls, this is what we call “Science”.

Meanwhile back on earth…Within the past week, I have heard of a school in this region in which the students have completed their syllabuses and are now mugging up and being tested on past examinations papers every week from now until March. The Principal is known for the liberal use of his hand for slapping boys and girls who get it wrong, but don’t tell him about the electric plates on the soles of the feet. So, the question I am asking is, how is that different from the way chimpanzees were trained to flick switches?

I also read an article in The Hindu this week about students cramming for the UPSC examinations. “Food, health and recreation are trivialities that UPSC aspirants cannot spare time for”, says the article. The psychiatrist dealing with casualties of these “trivialities” states: “Preparing for civil services affects the students emotionally, socially and psychologically as they are disconnected from the outside world…many of them turn to drinking and smoking.” Like Ham with the scientists, they seek escape from their tormentors, but since they do not have their own little space capsules, they find their peace by plugging in the iPod, drowning their sorrows in alcohol and blissing out on drugs ranging from nicotine in cigarettes to ketamine to crack cocaine. It is no mistake that last year the population of the United States consumed an estimated $67 billion worth of illegal drugs, never mind all the legally prescribed Xanax and Valium prescribed by doctors.

All across the world, I would opine, we now inhabit an intellectual two-dimensional world. The missing dimensions are reflection, deep thinking and imagination that form the basis of genuine creativity. This is reinforced by the way in which we increasingly interact with the world and with each other. Think about it: I recently saw a picture of an aboriginal man from Australia sitting looking contemplatively out across the world and at a beautiful vista. That is how we once saw and thought about the world, and this contemplation led to a huge intellectual revolution 5-6,000 years ago; then, later, there were Greek amphitheatres like this Rose Bowl, then the Romans put a roof on, then theatres with proscenium stages were made; then came the film screen; then TVs; then desktops; then laptops; then iPads, the iPad mini, and the not very well named “smartphone”. So now see the world through a screen this big; it is no wonder we walk into lamp posts and trip over , literally 158

and metaphorically.

Am I against progress, technology, innovation? Is this about going “Back to the Future”, a nostalgia for a bygone world we shall never revisit no matter what we do? Is The Doon School really just a museum to a type of education that has outlived its usefulness, a tranquil and beautiful sanctuary for boys to wander around in in pursuit of a dead ideal of holistic education?

Quite the opposite! I am against regression and for revolution. I believe we need an “Arab Spring of the Intellect” in our classrooms and lecture halls, a revolt against the mediocrity of a two-dimensional education system. I would not go as far as philosopher Professor Alan Bloom of Cornell in the 1980s, when he said that we could and should close down the entire liberal arts education system of the United States for a generation and start all over again, but we do need an educational revolution that gives every child everywhere the kind of educational opportunities our boys have at The Doon School. In this sense I am a radical progressive, while at the same time believing that education should take place in as timeless and traditional an environment as Chandbagh. I am trying to live out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s concept of intelligence and to hold two apparently contradictory ideas – a progressive education in a traditional setting – in my head at the same time.

The debate on what kind of education our students need to become what we want them to be – leaders who are ethical, creative, autonomous, original and wise - urgently needs some intellectual rigour, but above all it needs action. Leadership is something far deeper than a skill set; it is about self-development and a willingness to enter into the deepest thinking. And to do that, of course you need to study, but you also need to be in a place such as The Doon School.

Is there any hope? Of course, I came into education because I am an optimist and an idealist. As I said earlier, our boys have never been so busy with activities, and also never under so much pressure by the demands of employers and the university system around the world. Is Doon still relevant in this two-dimensional world we inhabit? More so than ever, I would argue. Those things we need so desperately, such as creativity, innovation, originality and collaboration, are all around you at Doon, and this is what we have tried to showcase this Founder’s.

And, our boys and masters are producing the grades as well: we have had a world topper at IB, boys into IIT, AIIMS, BITS, the colleges of Delhi University, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and on and on. This year for the first time we have had the data on the performance of all schools offering the ISC examination and one publication ranked schools by their results. There is a ranking for the percentage of students gaining above 90% in English and best three subjects. The school I referred to earlier did quite well with violence and endless boring repetition, but, and here is the revelation, who were the top two in the whole country out of all ISC schools? They were two fully boarding schools: Welham Girls and The Doon School! We also offer the IB, so those boys who took that are obviously not in our ISC figures, but I think it is safe to say that Ujjwal Dahuja with his 45 points and a scholarship to read Maths at Princeton would have managed a 90% +! We also had the same IB average points score per student as HMC schools, a club of the top schools in the world to which we belong, and at IB it is the highest achieving group of schools in the world.

So, the message I have drawn from this is, not surprisingly, boarding schools rule, and are not a relic of the past but a signpost to the future!

I spoke earlier about the need for an “Arab Spring of the Intellect”. This is an urgent matter for a very simple reason. If we do not have an “Arab Spring” in the way we carry out the education of our young people in and out of the classrooms and lecture halls in our schools and universities, then we are going to have an “Arab Spring” of a very different kind – and recent events show exactly where that can lead… I shall not wear this prediction on an extra-large T-shirt, but I am quite happy and prepared for you to hold me to it in the years ahead.

Thank you.

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Chairman’s Speech Mr Gautam Thapar

Thank You, Peter and good evening Ladies and Gentleman. Let me start this evening by saying that the school has had an excellent year. The performance of the boys has been exemplary, academically, in sports and in social services. All this has been achieved despite coping with changes in the daily calendar, the devastating floods in Uttarakhand and the usual other challenges the boys face in their daily lives in school. My congratulations to the headmaster and his team for this achievement.

Let me introduce the board, we have a number of new faces on stage, so let me just start on my right. Mr Moin Quireshi, who is the President of The Doon School Old Boys Society. Mr Arjun Malhotra, who joined the board last year, this is his first year. Mr Vivek Pandit. We of course have our chief guest Mr Ravi Katari next to him, Mr Indresh Narain and Mr Shashank Vira. And last but definitely not the least, the parent member of our board Mrs Nita Agarwal. In his farewell speech last year, the chairman Mr Analjit Singh had well told a number of important issues pertaining to the working of the school. The policies highlighted were the school’s financial performance, which in his tenure had improved considerably.

The competition for place in school which had increased considerably over the years, the school’s academic performance both in the IB and the ICSE which had shown major improvement. Our boys continue to get better and better offers from universities in India and the world as an option in where to pursue their further studies. I’m pleased to announce in all these fronts the school has performed well and in certain areas we have major improvements. This achievement would not have been possible without the plethora of changes that have been brought about in the governance of the school, the long term focus and visions and most importantly the ability to execute and deliver that vision. I must thank Anarjit for his drive in creating this platform which is allowing The Doon School to bring about these improvements. While the gains and achievements in the past five years have been impressive, my concern as Chairman and indeed the concern of the entire IPSS and the board is now on the stainability of this performance.

Necessarily, the key to this stainability has to be focused around the boys in school. Their are all round development cannot be cut short in any way. There are no short cuts to stainability.

The changing environment around us demands that we continue to invest in the schools academic and physical infrastructure and most importantly remain focused on our goal which is not turning away any boy selected to enter The Doon School for financial reasons. In this regard, I’m pleased to say that the school will disburse this year, In excess of rupees three crores in term of bursary support and scholarship to needed boys. I believe this is unique in schools in India and I hope in the coming years we will be able to increase the amount of support we provide to boys who come to The Doon School. This would not be possible without the support of the Old Boys of the Doon School, the parents so I thank you all. I’d like to focus on three areas which concerns the board and the concerns the working on the school. Academics, the board recognizes in a interactive and interconnected world we cannot continue to teach our students in the same way that they were taught in the recent past. The boys have far greater access to information.

However, we also recognize, maybe they don’t, information is not knowledge but information certainly can be used to challenge masters in class which most certainly leads to poor outcomes in the teaching environment. Additionally, the school offers both the ISC and the IB programmes.

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Both these programmes, as educational programs, differ vastly from each other, both in terms of course content and the way they are taught. This puts an enormous amount of challenge and stress on the teachers who have to teach both the programmes. Recognizing this approximately eighteen months ago, the school engaged with the Institution of Education in the UK to review our entire teaching pedagogy and bring it into the 21st century. The review involved our teaching pedagogy, methodology, classroom interaction between masters and students, lesson preparations, learning outcomes, peer-to-peer evaluation and many other areas. Post the evaluation, a small group of masters, ten in number was selected to go through the IOE training program and then come back to school and implement what they had learnt in the training back in the classroom. The evaluation, the subsequent training and its implementation has produced the results we had hoped for when we engaged first with the IOE. Encouraged by the visible changes the board has therefore approved a far deeper engagement with the IOE that will cover all teachers in the school currently and in the foreseeable future.

We are confident that the changes being brought about by this program will lead to better learning outcomes for the boys and greater satisfaction for the masters teaching them. Most of you has seen the school campus devoid of construction activity in the past year. Sadly, this is about to change. It has been the concern of the board that the school has not been able to house a number of masters on campus.

For a boarding school, the masters are a continuous part of the boy’s life in the house, in the class and on the playing field. To overcome this shortage the board has sanctioned construction of new master houses near Tata House lines, Jaipur House lines and the Hathi Khanna area.

The school has the funds, the master plan has been prepared and accepted, work will commence soon and we should soon be able to offer on campus housing to all teachers teaching at the Doon School.

While there will continue to be minor upgrades on the campus and these will happen on a continuous basis as we continue to improve our facilities. The other major project the school needs to undertake is the construction of an indoor sports and recreation center. The center will go a long way in providing year long sports facilities for the boys, dormitory facilities for visiting teams and a number of other sports specific requirements which the school currently is unable to offer. We have started the drive for fund collections and I’m pleased to inform you that a donor who wishes to remain anonymous has already pledged half the cost of approximately eight crores towards the cost of this building.

The school intends to begin work on the sports center once we have collected the balance funding. I know this may not be appropriate, but I urge each and every one of you parents, old boys and everyone else to find it within yourself to contribute so we can begin construction at the earliest. Finally, I know that each and every one of you parents receive a pack when your sons are admitted to school. The pack contains the essays by Arthur Foot on what is a Doon School boy. I hope all of you have read these essays. They are an ethos that dries everyone of us who has been to Doon and continues to act as beacon that guides the board. It is what has kept the school at the forefront of all round education in the country. While the world around us maybe changing continuously the value in education we wish to provide a boy at the Doon School has not changed. The Doon School is not an academic school but it is a school that does academics well.

The Doon School is not a sports school or a cultural school but it is a school that does sports and culture well. And it is in the combination of all of these things that we do well that we do produce this unique product called the Doon School boy or in parlance a ‘ Dosco ‘. You have given to this school your sons, they come here as young boys and they will leave as young men. If your focus while your son is at school is purely on his academic achievement then this is the wrong school for you son. The focus of the board for the foreseeable future will be on the all round education development of your boy in school and not his academic achievement. Please do keep this in mind you interact with both your children and the teachers in school. The vision we have for this school would not be achievable without the leadership and the focus of our Headmaster Dr Peter Mclaughlin. He and his team have got tremendous focus and credibility to the job. We have gone some way down our ten year goal, we have a long way to go. Peter will be completing his engagement with the school next year. Before any of you panic, I am pleased to announce he agreed to stay on for a further period of five years.

All change is difficult, when we started the process of change at this school four years ago it would not have been possible to get to where we are today without Peter and his team. We certainly want to make sure as a board and as an IPSS that these changes that we have brought about in school are sustainable and that stainability very much depends on the work Peter and his team will be putting in over the next six seven years so Thank You Peter. This year the board will see the retirement of Dr Dipankar Gupta. Dr Gupta has served the board tremendously with great conscience, great deliberation and very very valuable input. I would like to place on record our deep appreciation for the six years that he contributed to the school and wish him well in this retirement. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome Mr Sumanjit Chaudhry who will be joining the board this year and will serve for the next six years on board. Finally, it only remains for me to thank the board. They have given much of their time, which is all pro bono or free. They are hugely involved in the change process in the school, driving them. We have three critical committees on the board, which we depend upon for driving the change process; the education, which is the heart of the boards functioning today is headed by Mr Shashank Vira who sits out there. We follow a process of consultation with first the old boys, with the IPSS and then the parents in terms of the changes we want to bring about to this school. We have the head of treasury, Mr Indresh Narain 161

and we have the head of the Campus Development Committee Mr Ravi Katari. I would like to personally thank each one of these three for the hard work they have put in this year without which we would not be able to make progress we are making. So let me thank all of you for your patience, and for trusting us with your sons.

Please enjoy the rest of your stay in Dehradun. Thank you and good evening.

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School Captain’s Speech Sidharth Sethi

Good Evening, Ex-Air Chief Marshall Major, Chairman and members of the Board of Governors, Headmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen, and my fellow Dosco’s. It is indeed an honour to be addressing you on the occasion of the 78th Founder’s Day celebrations. My first encounter with Doon was through the flip of a coin. And it was ‘heads’ that sealed my destiny in Tata House and my twin brother Kabir’s in Hyderabad House (which happened to be my father’s old house). Even though I have cultivated enough T-House Spirit- not to begrudge Kabir -I now realize the merit of my father’s idea of leaving this decision to a coin toss. The fact that many of our destinies are shaped by chance is a part of the ethos that Doon acknowledges. And it attempts to annul this so as to create a fair and level playing field. Within these walls, what your birth has endowed you with means little. What matters is the strain in your muscles, the sweat on your brow, the spark in your mind, and your resolve to push your own limits. Like any human institution, Doon is no perfect society. Indeed, one of the inevitable outcomes of being a meritocracy is also excessive competitiveness, jealousies, peer and other pressures. Yet I believe that Doon today is much closer to the ideal society than it was when I set foot in Chandbagh 5 years ago. And like all healthy communities, it is dynamic and open to change.

An Old-Boy, who passed out 7 years ago, recently remarked to me that he was shell-shocked to see A, B and C formers sharing a table tennis table in a fair manner. Such an event was unheard of in his time. Many of you Old-Boys in the audience will remember the seemingly authoritarian rule of seniors in your time. We would like to believe that Doon today is a more welcoming place for juniors. At the same time, the senior continues to play a vital role in guiding juniors. Only a senior could spend patient hours teaching you to perfect a cover drive or play power chords on a guitar. Yet for all the ways in which the community has transformed, Doon retains some unique core values. I recently asked an Old Boy studying at an Ivy League college whether he missed something about Doon, something Doon offered that his university could not. I expected a wry smile and a shrug, but received a quiet but empathetic nod. He told me that the respect and genuine concern associated with the student-teacher relationship here is perhaps to be seen nowhere else.

We also spoke about the Dosco’s commitment to a cause greater than himself and his ability to collaborate with others to the best effect. The Dosco collaborates with his teammates during a football match, with his classmates on a school project, with his housemates during a music competition, and with his roommates to cook Maggi at night without the Housemaster noticing!

Truly, a Dosco knows how to mobilize large groups of people to work for a common cause, be it for the House or the School or for humanity through a community service program. A sense of service is one of the first things that a boy learns when he joins school. It becomes an integral part of his life and his value system. Recently, the Midterms for most of us were spent, as is traditional, in the mountains of the state, but with a difference. We associate Midterms with the beauty and peace that nature gives us, yet this time we came face to face with the terrible havoc that the natural elements can wreak. Parties of Doscos, up in the devastated hills, joined hands with villagers to begin the mammoth task of rebuilding what nature had destroyed. We put our heads, our hearts and our hands to the task. We tried to comfort the bereaved and reconnect their lives with the world they had been cut off from and, in doing so, we declared, in over a hundred unspoken ways, that we were ready and willing, to do our duty.

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It is a full life that we lead here at Doon. The peace of life at Doon is anything but slow. In a day, a Dosco may juggle activities ranging from P.T , classes, visiting the Panchayat Ghar, football practice, getting a fake hospital chit to avoid cheering, preparing for an upcoming debate and, of course, studying. Yet I would like to draw your attention to the words that loom forth each time one crosses the campus gates. ‘Slow Down’.

It was only this semester that it struck me that this simple-sounding caption is laced with metaphor. For within these gates lies a community that urges one to slow down and rethink the meaning of words such as ‘educational establishment’, ‘learning’, ‘mentor’ and ‘camaraderie’. The caption ‘slow down’ prompts a moment of introspection and awareness. Indeed, as Doscos we are forced to introspect through the feedback we get from masters, peers and seniors. As a community, we reflect on ourselves through the Weekly and School Council. We reflect, and at every front in our school life, we learn. One of the primary lessons I have learnt from Doon is to not be buoyed by the thrill of victory nor be crushed by the humiliation of defeat. One of my favorite poems, ‘If’ by Kipling, says it best: “If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat those two imposters just the same.” These were also the words that one of my form-mates gave me when he caught me sobbing uncontrollably after I had lost the badminton championship. ‘You’ll win it next year,” he said, with a reassuring nod. I slowed down, washed my face, and went my way. Even as I hit the winning shot next year to clinch the championship, the belief in my form-mates’ eyes remained firmly imprinted in my mind. Certainly, the ideal man is he who remains unperturbed by the fleeting joys and sorrows of life, and through facing obstacles and defeat I learnt that challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

As the time draws near for my batch to leave Chandbagh, we have, each one of us, not only gathered memories to last us a lifetime, but also developed , in these six years within this nurturing environment, a vision of what Doon should be in the future. We are the emotional stakeholders in this vibrant venture that is the Doon School. My own vision for this institution is a simple one: to send forth into the world (a world, I need hardly add, of style and conflict), young men who will shine the light of their goodness, young men who have the capability to dispel the darkness, ignorance, hatred and prejudice that they will encounter. My wish for The Doon School is that it has as its foremost priority the creating of such luminaries through every aspect of the education it provides.

It is, ladies and gentleman, a simple, perhaps too idealistic a vision. But then, that is what a Dosco is supposed to do, isn’t it? Aim for the highest and the best things possible? On this Founders day, I think I can be permitted also to express my deep gratitude to all those who have enriched my journey at Doon: the Head Master, Dr Peter McLaughlin, my Housemaster, Mr Skand Bali, my teachers and many friends. It is said that behind the success of every man, there is a woman, but there’s no such luck for me! In my case, it has been my brother, Kabir, who is my best friend my constant support and my greatest strength.

Thank you, and have a good night!

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Chief Guest’s Speech

ex-Air Chief Marshall Fali Homi Major Chairman of the Board of Governors of the IPSS Mr Gautam Thapar, The Headmaster Dr McLaughlin and of course the young School Captain who’s sitting here, the old students who have gathered in large numbers this evening here, distinguished guests, students, ladies and gentlemen.

It’s indeed a pleasure to be here this evening in these lovely surroundings of Dehradun all the way from down south and Bangalore. It is quite ironic that the last time I had come to Dehradun I stayed here, this was way back in 2008, exactly for about 45 minutes because the previous night 26/11 had taken place and I’d come here for the RIMC Founders day function. As soon as I landed here I was informed that I need to get back to Delhi in the next one hour and I was back again. After that visit to Dehradun I say it is ironic because I am here on a school visit and peace prevails in the country. After arriving here this afternoon, I was taken around the school by some masters and of course the school captain to some exhibitions and of course the school premises for about an hour, hour and a half and I must say and I must complement students past and present, the Board of Governors and everybody whose been involved in the school, that you have a crucible of excellence in Dehradun. And let me also say that this great school is almost as old as the Indian Air Force. We started off in 1932 and your school in 1935.

Your Headmaster in his very prolific way explained to you and in some very lovely terms as to where the world is headed and where education is headed. I am not an educationist so I dare not venture into the subject of education. But let me just say that having given the reputation of the school, given the high traditions, given the fine history, all you students here are perhaps in one of the finest institutions, I wouldn’t only in the country but in the world. And the headmaster brought out that there are very few boarding schools left today, and boarding schools of the caliber and capability of The Doon School. But let me also tell you all the students that till such time you graduate here, you’ve been very closely shepherded in all that you do, form the time you get up in the morning, you go through the day till such time you go back to sleep. The more that you graduate from school and you go into this wide-open world, like we say in The Air Force you will be flying solo for the first time. And all that you have learnt, all that you have imbibed in the great school is actually going to come into play only then. You have a school motto, you have a school flag, the symbols which actually must be speaking to you each morning when you get up. Because these mottos and flags create great significance because of the history that they have gone through. There will be effort put in by all the past students, you masters, your teachers and everybody else who has guided you through your years in school. Also remember the day you leave school you must have the courage, as you headmaster brought out so clearly to start an independent track if you find that the examples set in front of you do not measure up to your requirements. And my advice to you is, for God’s sake, don’t follow the herd, be a man.

And also remember that whenever you are in a dilemma or doubt while doing this, just do the right and honorable thing and you’ll never ever go wrong.

Also after school what is required is your professional competence and to remember always that not to aim for a solitary acclaim as you go along but to be absolutely diligent, proper, straightforward and courageous in you routine day to day work. That is what will take you miles ahead that just waiting for occasions to excel. So like Captain Spock says, ”Stretch yourself to the 165

limits, go where no man has gone before.” Because that is where you will realize and understand that life is not all about just education and work but it is about values, morals and your courage of conviction. Whenever an educational institution, one thinks about leadership as where does the basis of your leadership in the future come from?

Now, boys, ladies and gentlemen, leadership in today’s environment has its own very unique imperatives. Surely, future leaders as in the past will most definitely have to be competent and proven professionals. This is the most essential requirement in leadership today because credibility, a demonstrable credibility, in you will always remain as a hallmark as a leader and nothing else. Over the years, the subject of leadership, has been studied and analyzed in great detail and many seemingly authoritative lists of traits and qualities have been identified, published and distributed. But may I very humbly suggest to you all, specially all the aspiring leaders, that true leadership is not a simply a combination of these traits and qualities but needs to be tempered by your experience, the circumstances and is usually exclusive to a specific moment in time. Many may debate this issue, but I firmly believe that this is what leadership in today’s world is all about, because fundamentally hey say leadership is all about leading and managing people but I will go a step further and say that good leadership, besides doing these, needs a very simple thing, and that is common sense, because you recollect that history is replete with examples, wherein weaker sides have triumph by inspired leadership, and more often that not this was done with simple common sense and not by some great traits within the person.

Ones character, integrity, intelligence, hard work, vision and decisiveness will always remain the essential ingredients for success. The emerging vagaries of society are what is going to pose a challenge to you as you go along in life. Changing aspirations, higher aspirations of people, the complex demands of technology, new emerging equations around the world and many more happenings which are very evident in today’s world will certainty be a challenge to all our leaders in the future. But, having seen and having heard what you boys do in The Doon School, this challenge should be overcome by you very simply and very easily. Aim for it.

Now ladies and gentlemen coming back to me. After having spent over 49 years in the Indian Air Force, I would like to say what impacted my life the most and I’ll take a little time on this and that is I’ve spoke about mottos and flags earlier. The motto of the Indian Air Force, as most of you would know, is ‘Touch the sky with glory.’ But please remember that this is just not a motto or a line that everyone speaks about. To touch the sky with glory is an entire philosophy. It contains a distinct, distilled singularity of a human drive to achieve things. It consists of three very primary elements. The first for me is perhaps the most powerful, in the Indian Air Force we say touch, not reach, not push, not stretch, not gain but touch. I remember that sometime back even Steve Jobbs was most influenced by this idea of touch. In fact in his unfortunate demise his very best friend Jonathon tweeted ‘ Thank You Steve, you’ve shown me in life and technology that you don’t need to push, just touch.’ If you understand the very heavy context of the statement and below it all a humble admiration of people who can change the world by touch. And it has been touched and changed. There are also people like Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and even Michelangelo whose greatest mural on the roof of the Vatican is centered on a single touch of fingertips. And this to me as I said is the most important beginning of the motto ‘Touch ‘. The second element in the Indian Air Force motto, which is our philosophy, our guide to greatness is of course the sky. And in this context that is the literal as well as the figurative, as air warriors of the Indian Air Force we the Indian Air Force actually inhabit the sky. It is the battleground on which it trains, it learns, it grows and it breeds. And it is the mother that nurtures and trains the Indian Air Force. Figuratively speaking it encapsulates what every air warrior of the Indian Air Force strives for and that is greatness. Reach even higher, strive for greatness and always remember that the sky is not the limit. And the final coup de grace comes from the word ‘glory‘.

This is crucial because in the pursuit of glory is the journey and finally the destination. It is both internal as well as external. Unless we internally believe in our own glory nobody else will see that within us, and glory can never be achieved if the journey there has not been honorable. And to reach glory or the sky you must touch upon it on your journey there else it shall forever remain just out of your reach. The air warriors of the Indian Air Force not only live by this motto but many have given their lives for it. Now I ask you boys is there too much to expect from you, I’m not here to tell you to join the Armed Forces or whatever. I’m not here to tell you how to lead your lives, what to expect from it or even why it special. I’m here to tell you with great humility that these are the principles on which I have lived my life. These are the principles on which the Indian Air Force has built its life. And if nothing else inspires you at least let me request you no matter what you consider the highest limit, no matter what you define as glory and no matter what touches you always remember that if you want to, if you choose to and if you really, really want to you will always be able to touch the sky with glory in whatever you do in life.

And finally to all the boys of Doon School, to all the students may love, adventure, luck, determination, grit, honesty, integrity and outstanding professionalism be your constant companions now and always.

Thank You very much.

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The genre that is the Broadway musical is a sparking, edgy combination of clever melodic treatment, a quick changing harmonic idiom, and pithy lyrics that entertain, amuse and shock in equal parts. Frank Loesser, composer and lyricist of ‘H2S…’, was a master of this genre: though quintessentially ‘Broadway’, his artistic style was unique and complex. The unfolding of this urban fable of how to rise up to corporate ladder with an absurd ease is replete with cheeky and satirical songs; wonderfully versatile, with surprise-a-minute. Our orchestra and choir had the daunting task of understanding and delivering this music with its punch and panache intact.

None of us quite knew when the struggle with melody and rhythm, harmony and tempo, segued into the finished product: but when it came together, performing the catchy tunes with their upbeat rhythms became pure enjoyment.

M u s i c D i re c t o r ’s Note

From the tongue-in-cheek romantic ballad ‘Rosemary’ with its inspired musical quotation from the virtuoso piano concerto by Grieg, the holy-roller style of ‘Brotherhood of Man’, to the Loesser trademark of the conversational duet, ‘Company Way’, it was a voyage of musical discovery for our ensemble of young musicians.

Though we have remained faithful to the fifties-style jazz, the big band swing feeling, spiky chordal dissonances, soft-shoe tempi, slow blues and other musical devices, we have also taken a fresh orchestral approach, incorporating some special effects to support the humour and quicksilver quality that permeates the play. Throughout it all, from the painful initial stages of `learning the notes`, through playing some technically and rhythmically challenging passages with fluency to coordinating the music to produce a solid orchestral sound, the School`s instrumentalists and singers put in some punishingly long hours with enthusiasm, good humour, and only a minimal amount of grumbling.

Getting the `non-musicians` ( the actors!) to learn to sing while dancing, emoting and doing some strenuous movements across the stage made the orchestra dub that part of it `How to succeed after really, really trying`, but try they did- and succeed they certainly did.

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How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying D i re c to r ’s N o te What the audience witnessed last year was not just a Founder’s production, well at least not for me. Rather, it was the fruition of some grand ideas that I developed for a Founder’s show three years ago. Walking down Broadway in 2011, I chanced upon a brightly lit hoarding of Daniel Radcliffe wearing a business suit and a blue bow tie. And beneath his giant, smiling image was the title “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying”. Now whether it was the magic of Broadway or simply the desire to do something big, but I carried back with me the idea of one day putting up this show in the Rosebowl.

In many ways, H2S (as it came to be fondly called later) was exactly the kind of production I had always wanted to put up. It was a period musical with a fair share of acting to go with foot tapping jazz scores, and most importantly, it was a production that both boys and a slightly more mature audience would have thoroughly enjoyed. Among many other things, the 21st century Dosco dreams of making it BIG in the corporate world, something that I knew would form an instant link between those watching the musical and the lead character of the musical: J Pierrepont Finch.

From finding the perfect student to play a certain role to arriving at the perfect lighting combination after a series of imperfections, from finding props in the most improbable of places to losing actors and musicians to injuries, the musical saw quite a bit. And it survived. So yes, fate was kind, but kinder were the masters who gave up their valuable time to help a director with no previous experience of putting up a Founder’s production, let alone a musical.

While there were times in the course of preparing the show when I thought that taking on a musical had been a particularly bad decision, in hindsight I can say that working on H2S was one of the best and most enjoyable things I have done. Moreover, when I hear people talk about the musical even a year after its performance, I feel that we were able to put up something truly amazing and memorable, and that makes all the hard work that went into the making of H2S worth it.

Mr Shrey Nagalia

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Prize Giving 2013 School Colours

Gentleman Sportsman of the Year

The Doon School Cup

Madhav Dutt

Kabhir Sethi

Oberoi House

Kunal Kanodia Shantanu Kabhir Sethi Karan Pratap SIngh Kairon Shivaan Seth

General Proficiency Cup Madhav Dutt Junior Proficiency Cup Tushaar Sharma

Ritesh Shinde

Headmasterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Award for Outstanding Contribution

Udbhav Agarwal

Samarjit Singh

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From the rising bell for Chhota Hazri, to the fading conversations after Night Toye, a Dosco embodies many avatars each day. Each studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique exploits in this time lead alumni of the School to redefine proficiency in the fields that they venture into.

To remember the legacies of these Doscos, The Yearbook 2013 presents to you an avatar of the Dosco that we are all proud of: The Pioneerâ&#x20AC;Ś 172

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First Dosco to be appointed Foreign Secretary Mr Ram Sathe was the Foreign Secretary of India from 9th November 1979 to 30th April 1982. He also served as ambassador to Germany, China, Iran and France, and as a diplomat in Afghanistan and East Africa.

The Indian Foreign Secretary is the top diplomat for Indian foreign relations, appointed in the Ministry of External Affairs. Mr Sathe held this post for three years.

Mr Ram Sathe (ex-32-K) Batch of 1939

First Dosco to become a National Champion in a sport

He is also a recipient of The Jamnalal Bajaj Award, The St Andrews Prize for the Environment and The Robert Hill Award.

Mr Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy was the National Runner-up in squash in 1964, and participated in three world squash championships representing India.

Mr Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy (ex-125-J) Batch of 1962

He is currently an Indian social activist and educator. He was selected as one of Time 100’s ‘100 Most Influential Personalities’ in 2010 for his work in educating illiterate and semi literate rural Indians.

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First Dosco to become a Rhode’s Scholar

Mr Lovraj Kumar (ex-168-J) Batch of 1943

Mr Lovraj Kumar was an Indian civil servant who had a role in forming Indian economic policies from the late 1950s until the early 1980s.

He was not only the first Dosco Rhode’s Scholar but also India’s first for the same.

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for selected foreign students to study at the University of Oxford.

Established in 1902, it was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships and is widely considered the “world’s most prestigious scholarship”.

First Dosco to be awarede the Ramon Magsaysay Award Mr Boobli George Verghese received the Ramon Magsaysay award for outstanding contribution to journalism in 1975.

He is a senior Indian journalist, who has been editor of leading newspapers such as The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express.

Mr BG Verghese (ex-150-J) Batch of 1943

The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay’s.

It is given to personalities who exemplify integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society.

It is often considered to be Asia’s Nobel Prize.

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First Dosco to be appointed President of the DSOBS The First President of the DSOBS was Mr Arthur Foot.

Mr Surender ‘Charlie‘ Kandhari (ex-122-T) Batch of 1958

Mr Surender ‘Charlie’ Kandhari joined the teaching staff in 1955 becoming the first Old Boy to join the teaching staff. Mr Kandhari took over as the first ‘Old Boy’ President of the Society after Mr Martyn retired as Headmaster.

First Dosco to start a commercial broadcasting television network In 1988 Mr Prannoy Roy, along with his journalist wife Mrs Radhika Roy, launched a television production house called New Delhi Television.

From Doon’s very inception, Arthur E Foot, was extremely keen to initiate an Old Boys’ Society and it is to the credit of his vision that the very first Old Boy, on record, held an official position in the society Mr Uma Shankar Bajpai.

The DSOBS has been running strong ever since with the President spearheading the society.

New Delhi Television (NDTV) is among India’s top broadcasters and has offices and studios across the country. Its three national news channels NDTV 24x7 (English), NDTV India (Hindi) and NDTV Profit (Business news).

He also started India’s first 24-hour English news channel NDTV 24x7.

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This list is in no way exhaustive. The Yearbook apologizes in advance for missing out names for other â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;First Doscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC; as the information was unavailable at the time.

The information provided in this section has been taken from the Archives and/or from Internet Databases on the individuals.

The Yearbook also apologizes in advance for any factual errors.

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Every year The Doon School is fortunate to receive an interesting and varied group of speakers who enrich the clubs and societies and in some cases in talking to the whole school.

Here are just some of the speakers that visited the school in 2013: Brian Lara: As part of the IMA’s support to create funds for the devastation in Uttarkashi, caused by the floods in June, Brian Lara played with the school’s 1st X1 against the IMA. The event was organized by old boy and parent Dr Alok Ahuja and old boy Rakesh Goswami. Dr Ahuja is the President of the Indian Medical Association Derhadun. On 3rd October, the school team played against the Abhimanyu Cricket Academy. The School Cricket Captain Kabir Sethi, from Hyderabad House, opened the batting with Brian Lara, which for any player was a once-in-a lifetime opportunity.

Headmaster of Eton College: On Monday 11th February 2013, the School welcomed Mr and Mrs Tony Little to the School. There visit featured a tour of the School, meeting Heads of Department. Dinner and an overnight stay with the Headmaster were followed by his address to the School in the Rose Bowl. He spoke to the boys of the importance of the three E’s to each boy: Endurance, Enthusiasm and Excellence. Mr Little also had breakfast with boys past and present and future who have been part of the student exchange programme between the two schools.

But perhaps the most important message of the day was his wish that each boy would not spend all his time looking back at the School’s past achievements, but that each generation would leave their own legacy, and in doing so look to the future and embrace that future. The School’s highly successful founding Headmaster was a science master, Mr Arthur Foot. Much of the terminology from Eton was brought by Mr Foot to The Doon School. Mr Foot’s son and granddaughter have also visited the school earlier this year.

President of Iceland: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson took tea with the Headmaster on 2nd April 2013, when he paid a visit to the school and other places of interest in Dehradun which included addressing a conference on the environment. President Grimsson has been in post since 1996 and has been re-elected five times.

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall’s visit to The Doon School brought out the sunshine. Unseasoned rain showers did not spoil a royal visit to The Doon School by Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall. The Headmaster said The Duchess of Cornwall was especially interested in our girls’ education and women’s empowerment social service projects carried out by our boys. The Duchess spoke to women who had been given vocational training through the school, and micro finance and other support to start their own businesses, including food processing, clothes designing and tailoring, and to boys involved in drug rehabilitation, waste management and child education projects in and around Dehradun. At the conclusion of her tour, the Duchess enjoyed the music programme in the school’s Rose Bowl amphitheater, which featured “The Brotherhood of Man”, a song from the school’s recent production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and a Rajasthani folk song by the School’s choir and orchestra. The Duchess had earlier witnessed a mass Inter-House PT display held on the School’s Main Field, and at the end of the performances a commemorative cake and PT gong were presented by the Duchess to the winning House in front of a large audience of The Doon School boys and hundreds of underprivileged children. The Duchess told the Headmaster that she was very impressed with the courtesy of the boys, the discipline displayed in the PT display and the range and quality of the School’s music.

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Agni Raj Singh

38-H

He was the House Captain of Hyderabad House, the Editor-in-Chief of The Yearbook 2012, School Dance Captain, Secretary of the School Music Society and the Boy-in-Charge of the Royal Life Saving Society. He was also the Chief-of-Production of The DSIR, the House Dance Coordinator and the House Swimming and Quiz captain.

A fleeting moment when everything is beautiful and all is bliss.

He represented the School in dance, swimming, quiz and was a member of the cast of various Founder’s Day Musical productions in 2011 and 2013. He represented the House in basketball, athletics, swimming, quiz, dance and music.

Devesh Sharma

Agni left School with a bagful of varied achievements to his credit. House Captain, writer, editor, pianist and dancer extraordinaire, he worked determinedly to raise his own standards and performance in all these spheres of activity and responsibility. Articulate, mature, a responsible leader, he left his mark in so many ways, but, perhaps, most of all in his brilliant artistry and grace as a performer and choreographer.

-Mrs Priya Chaturvedi

63-H

He was the Head of the School English Dramatics Society and a Chairperson at the DSMUN 2013. He was the Editor-in-Chief of The Yearbook, Editor of the Echo and Editor of the Infinity.

An opportunity to find lifetime friends.

He was the winner of the Bakhle Memorial English Essay Prize test, was awarded School Music Colours thrice, the Ravindra Dhawal Cup for General Knowledge and the award for the Best Keyboardist in the Battle of the Bands 2012.

He attained Distinctions in the Trinity Music Examinations for Grades 2 and 6 and attained Merits for Grades 4 and 8.

He also achieved the standard of an RLSS Lifeguard twice, received a Gold Medal in the U-18 Districts’ Basketball Championship, was placed 6th in the Limca Book of Records Quiz, 3rd in the Rajeev Khanna Scholar’s Home Quiz and was awarded House Colours.

He represented the School in HMUN Boston, DSMUN, CMUN, MCGSMUN, RSC Singapore and Malaysia, dramatics, western band and orchestra. He represented the House in music, dramatics, debating, athletics and Shanti Swarup.

He was awarded the Scholar’s Blazer and the IAYP Blazer.

He was re awarded School Dramatics Colours twice and received the Kendall trophy for Best Actor of the year 2012. He was the best Drummer in the Battle of the Bands Competition 2012 and was awarded Best Actor in the 2012 One-Act Play 2012. He was awarded distinction in the Gold level of Lamda and 1st position in the Historical Circle Essay Writing Competition. He was nominated for Best Delegate in the DSMUN 2012 and was awarded Honorable Mention in the MCSSMUN 2012. He was also awarded House Colours.

He was awarded the Vimal Bhagat Trophy for excellence in English Drama.

“Courteous and helpful, Devesh’s talents are wide-ranging. He has been an actor, an editor, and an MUNer. Most of all, he has been the perfect gentleman who always warmed the hearts of all who knew him with his warmth and good humour.”

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Sidharth Sethi He was awarded the Games’ Blazer. He was awarded House Colours. He was also awarded Full Colours in Cricket, Athletics and Badminton and Half Colours in Squash.

“Sidharth earned a lot of good will and trust from everyone around him.

Sidharth was a role model for many in the School. Sidharth was a great sportsman and made his presence felt on the field. I wish him all the best for his future.”

-Mr Skand Bali

He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for IB Math and IB French. He was adjudged the Best Speaker at the RIMC Debating Tournament, the Most Promising Speaker at the Slaters’ Debates and the Most Promising Speaker at the Gibson Memorial Tournament. He was also adjudged the Most Promising Speaker in the Inter-House Debating Competition Finals. He attained distinctions Gold, Silver and Bronze levels of the LAMDA Examination.

“Armed with intellectual curiosity, a quick wit and a sound work ethic, Vikramaditya is an unstoppable force that the world will have to reckon with!”

-Ms Stuti Kuthiala

8-T

He was the School Captain. He was the School Athletics Captain. He was also the House Cricket Captain and the House Squash Captain.

He represented the School in cricket, hockey, athletics, badminton and squash. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, badminton, athletics, squash and PT. Luminaries who will shed the light of their goodness, who will dispell the darkness, ignorance, hatred, prejudice that they will encounter and fill the world with the glow of their goodness.

Vikramaditya Kapur

51-T

He was a School Prefect and Boy-in-Charge of the LAMDA STA. He was the House English Debating Captain. He was the Head of Media at DSMUN 2013.

He represented the School at the Slaters Inter-School Debates, The Frank Anthony All India Debates, The RIMC Debates, The Gibson Memorial Debates and IISPSC, Vancouver. He also represented the School at the Mayo Girls and the Cathedral MUNs.

Being a Dosco means never giving up. Even when it seems that you’re at your lowest, you pick yourself up.

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Ashish Rao

87-T

He was the School Hockey Captain. He was the House Football Captain and the House Athletics Captain.

The sixremember years are like I will Doon changes-in-break; the it for the various things first one doesn’t get has taught me over the over enoughthe and years.fast However, most the final one doesn’t important lessons will last enough. belong the ones that I have

He represented the IPSC Football team at the 2012 Indian National Football Tournament.

He represented the School in cricket, hockey, football and athletics. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics, PT and basketball.

He was awarded House Colours. He was awarded Full Colours in Football and Half Colours in Athletics.

“Ashish had his ups and downs in School but he learnt something from each moment. Ashish was a great sportsman and made his presence felt on the field. I wish him all the best for his future.”

-Mr Skand Bali

learnt on the field- that of humility, teamwork and the will to win.

ShivaanKothiwal Seth Raghav

4-T 37-J

He was the School Table Tennis Captain. He was the House Table Tennis Captain and the House Cricket Captain. He was also the House PT Leader and the House Council Secretary.

He was awarded the Games’ Blazer. He was awarded Full Colours in Table Tennis and was also awarded the PT Jersey. He was also awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for English and Mathematics. He was awarded House Colours.

He represented the School in squash, cricket and table tennis. He represented the House in cricket, squash, PT, hockey and table tennis.

It is a period of six years where all people share precious moments of their lives with the ones they know, never to be forgotten.

“Raghav knows and understands his true abilities. A talented sportsman.

He is an excellent academician and Table Tennis player. I wish him best of luck for his future.”

-Mr Skand Bali

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Mahanaaryaman J. Scindia 632-J 82-T Chaitanya Fatehpuria He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for Economics. He was also awarded House Colours.

He was a School Prefect. He was the Boy-in-Charge of the Design and Technology STA. He was the House Boxing Captain.

He represented the House in PT and marching.

“Self – disciplined and trustworthy, Chaitanya was a source of great support for me as School prefect. He has achieved a great deal in School and I am confident that he will achieve much more in life too.”

-Mr Skand Bali

Doon has taught me that the fight isn’t over till it’s over, and that I must give in my hardest, even after I appear to have outdone my ability to fight.

Sehaj Jouhal He was awarded Full Colours in Basketball. He was awarded the IAYP blazer.

92-T

He was the House Athletics Captain.

“An honest and well mannered boy who never let setback affect him. A brilliant basket ball player and a very fine sportsman.

He holds very high level of discipline, punctuality, respect and dignity. I strongly believe that he will make his School, us and his parents proud of him always.”

-Mr Skand Bali

He represented the School at the National Basketball tournament in 2013. He represented the School in basketball and athletics. He represented the House in PT, athletics and basketball.

From the courts to the classroom, and from the trigonometry to the tracks, Doon shall always remain in my heart as the place where I became a man.

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Kushagr Singh

10-T

He was the House Basketball Captain.

Something extraordinary.

He represented the School in basketball and football. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics and basketball. He was a part of the House dance troupe. He also represented the House in the OneAct Play.

Shivaan Seth Jai Khanna

41-T

He was awarded Full Colours in Basketball. He was a member of the team that won gold in the U-16 Sate Championship.

“A strong boy and a good all rounder. He was admired for his talent in Cricket, Hockey, Football and Basketball. I wish him good luck for his future.”

-Mr Skand Bali

37-J

He was a School Prefect and Boy-in-Charge of the Science Society. He was the House Shanti Swarup Essay Captain and the House Athletics Captain. He was also a member of the School Technology Council.

I believe a Dosco is a responsible and considerate individual with a blend of a sense of personal ambition and global responsibility.

He represented the School in football and athletics. He also represented the School at the Sanskriti MUN and DSMUN conferences. He represented the School at the International Student Science Conference and the Earth Day Youth Conference and was a part of the Founders’ Day English production for 2011.

He attained a distinction in the LAMDA Examination in the Gold Level. He was a member of the football team that was awarded the trophy for the Most Outstanding Achievement of the year and the JS Chowdhary trophy for the Best Aero-modeller of the year. He was awarded the trophy for the Best Idea at the Earth Day Youth Conference. He was awarded the Bronze Reading Award in the senior category. He won the Councils football gold in 2012 as part of the School team. He also won the IPSC football gold as part of the School team. He was awarded the Headmaster’s cup for IB Physics.

“Three words sum up Jai-- suave, diligent, disciplined. Whether it was the football field or the House Band or the class, Jai was always there putting his best foot forward.

You knew that in football the cross would come in, in the band the guitar would pluck the right notes and in any free School, there would always be Jai Khanna working on his IB assignments. Jai’s greatest gift was that he was gentle to the core, loved by all who knew him. I will always remember Jai as the 100% boy-- a rare gentle gem for his age.”

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Shivan Tandon He was awarded the Games’ Blazer.

He was awarded Full Colours in Tennis and Table Tennis. He was also awarded House Colours.

He was the House Tennis Captain.

“Shivan has all the qualities that one would desire. He is polite, courteous and a true gentleman. What I am most pleased is about his honesty. This is quite a rare virtue. Shivan has been a good leader. His legacy in many areas shall remain in the House for a long time.”

-Mr Skand Bali

He represented representedthe theSchool School in football. in table He tennis represented and tennis. the House He represented in football, the swimming House in and boxing. hockey, PT, tennis and table tennis.

Zorawar Singh He was awarded House Colours.

632-J 2-T

It has been a tremendous journey, full of highs and lows, but one which, if given the chance, I’d choose to undertake once more in a heartbeat.

7-T

He was the House Captain of Tata House. He was the House PT leader and he was the director for his House’s One-Act Play.

“Zorawar was a friend, a leader, an inspirer for all the boys. Working with him in the House was a great time. He was a good conversational person, with a remarkable sense of humour and high regard for moral values. His affection for the House and involvement as a House Captain will always be remembered.”

-Mr Ashish Dean

He represented the House in cricket, hockey and football.

A legacy that will never end.

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Kartikey Luthra

44-T

He was the House Quiz Secretary.

My time in Doon has taught me a lot of valuable lessons, but perhaps the most important one has been that others might come and go, but true friends are forever.

He was awarded various art prizes.

He represented the School at the 2013 Harvard MUN Conference in China. He represented the House in the Inter- House Quiz. He also represented the House in PT and was a part of the House Marching Squad.

ShivaanAnis Seth Farhan

15-T

“Kartikey is a bright, straight forward and affectionate boy. He is polite and humble to everyone. I wish him all the success in life.”

-Mr Skand Bali

37-J

He was the President of the Udaan initiative. He was the House Social Service Secretary and the House First Aid Captain.

The word Dosco is a symbol of excellence. It not only brings pride, but at the same time a sense of responsibility in us towards our society as the leaders of tomorrow. For me, a Dosco is a complete man.

He represented the School in football and hockey. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics, basketball, PT and badminton.

He was also a part of the House One-act play and the House First-aid team.

He was awarded the Best Designer award. He was also awarded the First-Aid Label.

“A natural sportsman, Farhan was the back bone of House hockey and football teaMs He is polite and humble to everyone and holds very high level of mannerism.”

-Mr Skand Bali

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He was awarded School Colours. He was awarded the Scholar’s Blazer and House Colours. He was awarded the Gold Reading Award in the seniors category. He was adjudged the Best Speaker at the International Independent Schools’ Public Speaking Competition. He was adjudged the Best Delegate at the Mayo College Girls’ School MUN and the Most Outstanding Delegate at WEMUN. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for IB English.

Udbhav Agarwal

632-J 67-T

He was the Secretary of the Library Council, Joint Secretary of the Science Society and Senior Representative of the School Council. He was the founder of the Doon School Journalism Expo. He was Editor-in-Chief of The Infinity, Editor of The Echo and Editor of The DSIR. He was also the chairperson of SPECPOL at DSMUN 2013. He was the House Debating Captain.

“Udbhav is a boy who always gives everyone around him an opportunity to admire and compliment him. He holds very high level of discipline, punctuality, respect and dignity. He is someone who has not at all deviated from his character despite being great achiever. He is polite and humble to everyone. I strongly believe that he will make his School, us and his parents proud of him always.”

-Mr Skand Bali

He He represented represented the School School in in various football. He English represented and Hindi the debate House and in football, several swimming MUNs. He represented and boxing. the House in various debates, recitation competitions and the Shanti Swarup Science Essay Competition. He also represented the House in PT and swimming.

Harsh Singhania He was awarded various prizes in art and music.

“I enjoyed his music compositions thoroughly. He is going to be remembered in School for his politeness and courteous behaviour.”

-Mr Skand Bali

Doon, for me, will always be a landmark in my life. It is the place where I learnt the importance of dialogue in getting my point across, but most importantly it taught me to always follow my heart.

16-T

He was the House Music Captain.

He was a part of the School Choir. He represented the House in PT and was a part of the House Marching Squad.

He also represented the House in football.

Doon has been a lesson in learning, trusting and succeeding, but above all, it has been a lesson in building an unbreakable bond of friendship.

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Shaurya Aggarwal

76-T

He was the House Chess Captain.

Doon shall be one place which I will always keep close to my heart. The successes and the failures will fade into irrelevance over time, but the friendships will remain.

He was awarded School Chess Colours. He was awarded House Colours. He was also awarded the Scholars’ Blazer. He was adjudged winner of the Senior Math Colloquium Prize Test.

He was a member of the School Chess Team. He represented the House in PT and chess and was also a part of the House Marching Squad.

“Shaurya knows and understands his true abilities. A talented Chess player. He is an excellent academician. I wish him best of luck for his future.”

-Mr Skand Bali

Shivaan SethSadana Jairaj Singh

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He was the Boy-in-Charge of the Aeromodelling STA.

He represented the House in basketball. He was also a part of the House dance troupe.

Being a Dosco doesn’t just give me pride but also honour. It means a lot to me and I hope to give pride back to it.

He was awarded various prizes in art and aeromodelling.

“Jairaj was a focused, cheerful and quite boy. He was a heartfelt and a conscientious boy whose hard work paid off towards the end. He will be remembered for his contribution in Aeromodelling.”

-Mr Ashish Dean

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Kartikey Pandey

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He was the House Social Service Secretary.

He won various art prizes.

“A wonderful musician and a highly committed boy. He holds very high level of discipline, punctuality, respect and dignity. He is someone who has not at all deviated from his character despite being great musician. He is polite and humble to everyone.”

-Mr Skand Bali

He represented the House in PT. I shall always remember Doon as the place where I truly found myself, amongst my best friends and my most influential mentors.

Agastya Bellad He was awarded various art prizes.

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He was the House Hockey Captain, The House Boxing Captain and the House Swimming Captain.

“Agastya was a quiet, calm and affectionate young boy, who had a good sense of humoru. Not a very assertive person but still contributed positively to the House. He will be remembered for his gentle looks.”

-Mr Ashish Dean

He represented the School in athletics. He also represented the School at the Earth Day Youth Conference, Dehradun and the Science Conference at Hutchins School, Australia.

He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics and boxing. He was also a part of the House dance troupe.

A Dosco defines true grit and the determination to persevere.

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Karan Pratap Singh Kairon 1-J He was the Secretary of the School Council, the Secretary of the Historical Circle and the Secretary of the Quiz Society. He was the Boyin-Charge of English Public Speaking. He was the Chairperson of the Security Council in DSMUN 2013. He was the School Senior PT Leader. He was House Senior PT Leader, the House Swimming Captain and the House Quiz Captain.

The Thesix sixyears yearsare arelike like changes-in-break; changes-in-break; the firstone onedoesn’t doesn’tget get first over over enough fastfast enough and and the the final doesn’t final oneone doesn’t last last long longenough. enough.

He represented the School in swimming, quiz, drama and MUN. He represented the House in hockey, football, swimming, athletics, basketball, debating, quiz and the One-Act Play.

Shivaan Seth

“Karan’s impish smile and almost wicked sense of humour belies the extremely sensitive person that he really is. Ready with a laugh to see him through the odds, Karan the PT leader with his leg in a cast was a familiar sight through his entire SC Form. But that plaster has not been able to bog him he is out of it, he will go many, many miles more. “ -Ms Purnima Dutta

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He was the House Captain of Jaipur House.

He was the School Football Captain. He was the House Football Captain and House Tennis Captain.

To use Doscomail, to eat in the CDH, to wear shorts with buttons and still turn out to be the best damn people there are out there.

He represented the School in football, hockey, basketball, athletics and swimming. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, swimming, athletics, basketball, dance and Tennis.

He was awarded School Colours. He was awarded the PT Jersey. He was awarded the best delegate in WEMUN, the most outstanding delegate in SMUN and MCGSMUN. He was awarded the third place in the All India PG Miller Quiz at Daly College, Indore. He was awarded House Colours and Quiz Colours. He was awarded various awards in the Inter-School and Inter-House swimming competitions.

He was awarded School Colours. He was awarded the Games’ Blazer. He was awarded Full Colours in Football and Hockey. He was awarded the Ravindra Dhawal prize for the highest marks in the IPSC GK test (seniors).

He was awarded House Colours.

“Shivaan personified the character and grit of a Doon School boy. One of the finest sportsmen and House Captains I have seen for some time, he exemplified dedication, hard work, integrity and an ability to perform extremely well against odds. Well done and keep in touch!

The awarding of House Colours and School colour – the highest honour is testimony of Shivaan’s contribution to the overall life in School.”

-Mr Rashid Sharfuddin 192

Mahanaaryaman JJ.Scindia Mahaanaryaman Scindia 632-J He was awarded Half Colours in Football.

He was a School Prefect. He was the House Boxing Captain. He was appointed a chairperson in DSMUN 2013.

“Mahaanaryaman’s sincerity and passion towards the cause he believes in and his ability to enthuse a wider audience has set him apart from his contemporaries. A very sensible and extremely courteous boy, Mahaanaryaman set new standards in boxing, football and leadership in School.

His ability to bounce back from personal setbacks and failures inspired his peers and earned respect from his juniors and his friends alike. Here is wishing the future politician the best of luck!”

-Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya

He was awarded the School PT Jersey. He was awarded Full Colours in Football.

He represented the School in football. He represented the House in football, swimming and boxing.

Zahaan Qureshi

A Dosco to me is a fighter, a leader and a revolutionist.

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He was the School Golf Captain. He was the House Basketball Captain. He was the Head of the Organizing Committee for the Chuckerbutty debates and was the Head of Hospitality for DSMUN 2013.

“Zahaan was a gentleman first and foremost, and always. I will always remember his good manners, and courteous ways. A lot of young people might imagine that being brash and “Do-I-Look- Like- I- Care “ is the height of cool, but a boy like Zahaan would have always proved them wrong! Also, you would have never heard him saying mean things about others in public. All the best, Zahaan! You’ll be always remembered for your mature and balanced ways. Wherever you go, your gentlemanliness will always be your distinguishing mark!”

-Ms Priyanka Bhattacharya

He represented the School in golf and football. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, basketball and athletics.

A place where you see a pianist painting, an artist playing football. It is where friends become brothers and boys become men.

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Uday Goyal

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He was the House Council Secretary and was the House Chess Captain.

A Dosco may not always be a man of success but he will always be a man of values.

He represented the School in Exchange to Millfield School, UK. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, PT and One-Act Play.

Utkarsh Jha

“Uday epitomises academic excellence.

He is also one of the few boys I know who see the lighter side of everything and with his sense of humour, there could never be any dull moments around him.

As the House Council secretary, Uday introduced many facilities in the House aimed at making life comfortable for everyone and ensured smooth running of the Common Room.”

-Mr Rashid Sharfuddin

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He was the Editor-in-Chief of The Doon School Weekly. He was the Secretary of the Technology Council. He was a Chairperson for DSMUN 2013. He was the Secretary of the Junior English Debating Society.

A Dosco is one who wastes no time defining.

He represented the School in InterSchool Debates including IISPSC and India Pakistan Debates, Model United Nations including HMUN, DSMUN, MCGSMUN, and WEMUN. He represented the House in Hindi and English Debating, Shanti Swarup and First Aid.

He was awarded House Colours and was awarded the First Aid-Label. He was awarded the Headmasters Cup for Accounts.

He was awarded the Outstanding Delegate award at WEMUN and MCGSMUN. He won various art and photography prizes. He was awarded Marker’s Cup for Computer Science.

“Utkarsh gave his best to anything he did in School. His passion for literature and creative writing set him apart from most of his friends.

As the Editor –in – Chief of The Doon School Weekly, Utkarsh led a bunch of budding editors and correspondents with much enthusiasm and vigour.

His contemporaries speak highly of his ability to motivate his team mates and juniors. I wish him the best of luck for his life ahead.”

-Mr Rashid Sharfuddin 194

Waseefullah Khan Sherwani He was awarded the Games’ Blazer. He was awarded Full Colours in Cricket and Basketball.

He was the School Basketball Captain. He was the House Table Tennis Captain and the House Cricket Captain.

“A word comes to mind when I recall Waseef and this word is cricket. Always passionate about cricket since his D-Form and has always contributed eagerly towards the sport. Apart from his cricketing ability he was a true ambassador to the sport. A true gentleman.”

-Mr Manish Pant

He was awarded Half Colours in Hockey. He was awarded House Colours. He was awarded the Mahindra Search for Talent Scholarship for scoring the highest marks in S form. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for Accounts in S form. He was awarded a trophy for winning the Inter-School Wynberg Allen Hockey Tournament in 2013.

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He represented the School in cricket, basketball and football.

He represented the House in cricket, football, basketball, table tennis, drama and athletics.

Marut Garg

It is a place that I shall always remember, not just for the memories I acquired here, but for the incredible people I grew up with.

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He was the House Hockey Captain, the House Athletics Captain and the House PT Leader.

“Marut has been a very organised and disciplined boy in his work and habits. A very good sportsman and a much loved team man, Marut played an important role in popularising athletics and hockey in the House. Here is wishing him the very best for his future career.

-Mr Rashid Sharfuddin

He represented the School in cricket, hockey and athletics. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics and PT.

Dosco is a term defined only by the heart.

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Hamza Khan

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He was the School Music Captain and the House Social Service Secretary.

A Dosco is the condiment which gives success its flavour.

He represented the School at Izhaare-Hunar, Woodstock Battle of the Bands and Virasat Cultural Festival.

He represented the House in the Inter-House music competition as a part of the western band, conductor of the choir and as a solo instrumentalist.

Divij Batra

“Hamza made the most of his years at Doon, and his many gifts included the invaluable one of making friends.

He reached out to people with his gentleness and genuine goodwill.

As School Music Captain, he not only nurtured and honed his own talent but shared his gift and time with young musicians. One of my most cherished memories will be of playing in accompaniment to his violin.”

-Mrs Priya Chaturvedi

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He was the House Squash Captain and the House Senior PT Leader. He was the producer of the House One-Act play in 2013.

Being a Dosco means to be a part but still be apart.

He represented the School in football and cricket. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, PT, squash, basketball and athletics.

He was awarded the Best Musician award for B, A, S and SC forMs He was the winner of the Inter-House Instrumental Solo in S-Form. He was awarded Music Colours in SC Form. He was the North India Topper for Trinity Guild Hall Grade 4. He was awarded the D.N. Verma Cup for Chemistry. He was awarded the Vaman Shirodkar Trophy for the Best Musician of 2013.

He was awarded House Colours. He was awarded the P.T. Jersey. He was awarded Half Colours in Cricket. He was awarded the First Aid Label.

“Very sincere, very hardworking student always striven for excellence whether it is in sports or in studies.

He was always ready to listen to suggestions and many genuine efforts to rise up from his weaknesses.

His commitment on and off the field is always of very high standards. He has always been a role model for his juniors and his formmates.”

-Mr Manish Pant

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Saumil Agarwal He was awarded a Distinction in the Trinity Guildhall Examinations Grade 2 and a Merit in Trinity Guildhall Examinations Grade 4 and 6 in Piano. He was awarded the highest marks in the School in the Trinity Examinations in B form. He was the winner of Junior and Senior Math Colloquium Prize Test.

He was the House Music Captain and the House Badminton Captain.

“Shy and withdrawn, one doesn’t have to know Saumil closely to see the gentle person that he is. His occasional, brilliant smile endeared him to everyone around him. His sensitivity was evident in the music he was so passionate about.”

-Ms Purnima Dutta

He was awarded the Bronze and Silver awards of the IAYP. He was awarded the Best Junior Gymnast.

He was awarded the Silver Award for Reading. He was awarded a distinction in grade 6 of the Trinity Guild Hall Exam. He was also awarded a distinction in grade 8 of LAMDA.

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He represented the School at the International Student Science Conference at Hutchins School, Australia.

He represented the House in cricket, badminton and music.

Harshvardhan Bansal

It is a launching pad for success.

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He was the Boy-in-Charge for Trinity Guildhall Examinations. He was the House Athletics Captain. He represented the House in the Technology Council.

“Remarkably modest about his musical talent and achievement in completing all eight grades of the Trinity examination, Harshvardhan fulfilled his aspirations in his own quiet, but highly motivated way. He was keenly engaged with both technology and the arts in School, and made his mark in both. And through it all, he never lost his smile or his good humour.”

-Mrs Priya Chaturvedi

He represented the House in football, hockey, cricket, gymnastics, swimming and athletics.

To me, the word ‘Dosco’ means a complete individual who is well versed in the working of the world and is ready to take on society’s challenges.

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Ritesh Popat Shinde

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He was a School Prefect. He was the Secretary of the Hindi Debating Society. He was the Boy-inCharge of the Hindi Dramatics Society. He was the Head of the Print Media in DSMUN 2013.

He was the Director of the Founder’s Day Hindi Production 2013. He was the Hindi Editor of The Doon School Weekly. He was the House Hindi Debating Captain and the House One-Act Play Director.

Can’t find ‘Dosco’ in the dictionary. That’s exactly what it is - nothing can define a Dosco.

He represented the School in hockey, hindi debating and Chandbagh debates. He was part of the expedition to the Everest Base Camp and the Thar Desert. He took part in various Founder’s Day plays and represented the school on an Exchange Programme to Groton School, USA. He represented the House in hockey, hindi and english debating and the one-act play.

Ritesh is one of the most inspiring young men I have ever come across. His contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the school, his academic endeavour, his work ethic, and his talent in Hindi and English debating and dramatics, were truly outstanding. And all he accomplished was without fanfare and done with an exemplary humility. He was for me the paradigm of the gentleman Dosco.

-Dr Peter McLaughlin

Sumer Sehgal 42-J He was the School Swimming Captain and the House Music Captain.

He represented the School in swimming. He represented the House in football, swimming, hockey, cricket, debating and PT. Someone who doesn’t fit into any stereotypes and likes himself that way.

He was awarded School Colours. He was awarded the Scholar’s Blazer. He was awarded School Debating Colours and School Dramatics Colours. He was awarded the Best Debater’s Cup 2011.He was awarded the Mahindra Scholarship for highest marks in ICSE 2012 and the Nikhil Gupta Scholarship for highest marks in Mathematics and Sciences in ICSE 2012. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cups for Economics, Hindi, English and Commerce. He attained a Distinction in LAMDA Examinations for Grade 7. He was awarded various prizes in Creative Writing and Best Speaker awards in Hindi and English Debating. He was awarded the Superama Scholarship and Award for contribution to Hindi Drama for 2013.

He was awarded Full Colours in Swimming. He was awarded the Bronze award in IAYP. He was awarded the bronze award in LAMDA. He was awarded the first aid label and the Best Musician award in C form. He gave the Trinity Guildhall Music Examination for Grade 5. He achieved the standard of an RLSS Life Guard.

“Sumer will be remembered as an extremely focused and hard working boy. He is shy and quiet, but still waters run deep I guess! Here is wishing this ‘extremely large hearted’ boy who sold off his Harley to buy a golf cart for the School best of luck for a wonderful and successful career and life ahead in the coming days.”

-Mr Rashid Sharfuddin 198

Bipasha She achieved a Merit in the LAMDA Examinations for Grade 6.

She was also awarded various art prizes.

“I called her the oxymoron-- the one with the ‘silent fire’. Timid to the core and yet occasionally fiery, Bipasha took School life and the ‘boys’ with a huge pinch of salt. There were, however, many things she was extremely vocal about. One always needed to kindle the fire for her to become the comet that she truly is. I am certain that she will be remembered by all who knew her as this quiet and sensitive being, full of surprises.”

-Mr Debasish Chakrabarty

He was awarded the Nikhil Gupta Scholarship for highest marks in Board Examinations. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for Excellence in History and Political Science. He was awarded the Markers Cup for English and Environmental Education. He was awarded the First Aid Label. He attained a Merit in the LAMDA Examinations for Grade 7.

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She was Student-in-Charge of the Panchayat Ghar. She was the senior editor of the DSAM.

She represented the School in various Founders’ Day plays. She represented the House in the Inter-House One-Act Play 2013.

Raniz Bordoloi

An incredible experience, the memories of which I will cherish forever.

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He was a School Prefect. He was a Deputy Chairperson for DSMUN. He was the House Shanti Swarup Captain and the House First Aid Captain. He was an Editor of The Doon School Weekly and the Editor-in-Chief for the Jaipur House Publication.

“An epitome of simplicity - downto-earth, upright and honest, quiet and soft-spoken - some of the outstanding traits that will always remain synonymous with Raniz. I wish him all the very best.”

-Mrs Jasbeer Kaur Anand

He represented the School in HMUN, WEMUN, DAIMUN and MCGSMUN. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, athletics, music, drama, Shanti Swarup Essay Writing Competition, and first aid.

A way of life embodying the highest values. A privilege of a lifetime.

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Abhijit Kejriwal

He was awarded School Art Colours and the First Aid Label. He was also awarded an Honorable Mention at HMUN, China. He was also awarded the Best Artist Award in the Inter-House One-Act Play Competition 2013. He was also awarded the 3rd Prize for German Language in C-Form. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for Commerce.

He was awarded theShri Gulab Singh Memorial Sculpture Trophy for 2013

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He was the Editor-in-Chief of The DSAM. He was the Captain of the School Art IPSC Team. He was the House Squash Captain and the House Art Captain.

A boy of talent and a man of virtues.

He represented the School on the Student Exchange Program to Deerfield Academy, USA. He represented the School in various MUN’s, the IPSC Art Competition and various art competitions. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, athletics, PT, squash, music, art and dramatics.

Vishal Tummala

“Abhijit was a rare blend of creativity and discipline. His tireless effort to every work is phenomenal. A gentle, determined young man with great ideas and thoughts.”

-Mr Arnab Mukherjee

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He was a School Prefect and the House English Debating Captain. He was also the House Journalism Expo Captain.

Being a Dosco has taught me the intricacies of life and has made me wellversed with what society expects of us today.

He represented the School in debating. He represented the House in athletics, football, hockey, swimming, PT, marching and debating.

He was awarded House Colours.

“You were silent but full of expressions. Your presence in the House will be missed. All the best for your college life and I am sure that you will do very well in life.”

-Mr Manu Mehrotra

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He was awarded School Dramatics Colours and was awarded the Best Director in the Inter-House One-Act Play, 2013.

He attained merit in the LAMDA Examinations for Grade 5 and 7. He achieved the standard of the RLSS Lifesaver and RLSS Lifeguard. He was awarded the First Aid Label. He was awarded the award for the Best Metal Work in D-Form. He won multiple medals in athletics and swimming. He was also awarded House Colours.

“Himanshu was a quiet and reflective young man. He was always open to ideas and his strength lied in his ability to adapt to his surroundings.

He was a sincere and hardworking pupil. He will be remembered for his humble and respectful nature. I am confident that he will achieve a lot of laurels in the years ahead.”

-Mr Kamal Ahuja

He was awarded School Music Colours for Dance.

He was awarded the bronze, silver and gold levels of the IAYP and the IAYP Blazer. He attained merit in the LAMDA Examinations for Grades 6,7 and 8.

He was awarded the First Aid Label and was also awarded House Colours.

Himanshu Poddar

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He was the Director for his House’s One-Act Play. He was the Head of the Organizing Committee for the Kamla Jeevan Hindi Debates, 2013. He was an Anchor at the World Book and Copyright Day, 2013.

He represented the School at the SRCC Business Conclave, 2013. He was also part of the School Choir. He was a part of the Founder’s Day Hindi Production for 2013. He was also a part of the Junior Hindi Summer Production. He was also the Director for the Founder’s Hindi Street Play in B-Form. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, swimming, athletics, boxing, dramatics, music and debating.

Vatsal Goenka

The word Dosco to me is an inherent bond of brotherhood and a never-die attitude of cooperation, amongst each other.

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He was the House Dance Coordinator.

“Hard working and very focused!

You exceled in whatever you chose to do. I will remember you for your cheerfulness and your sincerity.

Good luck in all your endeavors. “ -Mr Manu Mehrotra

He was a part of the Founder’s Day English Production for 2013. He represented the School in various dance competitions. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, dance, PT, debating, athletics and in the One-Act Play.

I cried when I entered and I will cry when I leave, but it is the memories in-between that I will cherish forever.

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Divyant Saprra

He was awarded Full Colours in Swimming. He achieved the standard of a RLSS Life Guard and was awarded the First Aid Label. He won a Gold Medal at the Doon School Aquatic Meet 2013. He also won two Silver Medals at the St George’s Swimming Meet 2012 and won two Bronze Medals at the St George’s Swimming Meet 2013. He also won all his events in the Inter-House Swimming Competition in 2013. He attained Distinctions in the LAMDA Examinations for Grades 6, 7 and 8. He was nominated for the Best Delegate Award at the DSMUN 2013 and he received a commendation in Sanskriti MUN 2013.

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He was the Editor of The Blueprint. He was the House Swimming Captain and the House Council Secretary. He was also the House Junior PT Leader.

The word “Dosco” to me is a journey, significance of which can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards.

He represented the School at the DSMUN 2013, Sanskriti MUN 2013 and Dhirubhai MUN 2013. He represented the School on the Student Exchange Program to Stowe School, UK. He represented the School at the IPSC Swimming Tournament, the Council’s Swimming Tournament, the Doon School Aquatic Meet, St George’s School Swimming Meet, The Delhi State Swimming Tournament and the National RLSS Swimming Tournament. He also represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, basketball, PT, athletics, boxing, debating and dance. He was also his House’s representative to the School Council.

Rishabh Chadda

“Cheerful, friendly and ever-smiling, Divyant will be missed by all those who knew him. With his contagious giggle, his hilarious comments and his sense of humour, Divyant made himself popular amongst his peers. But the greatest qualities that I remember Divyant for are his simplicity, honesty and humility. I am sure that with such sterling qualities that make a good human being, he will be very successful in life. I wish him all happiness and success.”

-Ms Purnima Dutta

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He was the House Cricket Captain, the House Table Tennis Captain and the House Junior PT Leader.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

He represented the School in cricket and table tennis. He represented the House in cricket, table tennis, chess, badminton, PT and athletics.

He was re-awarded Full Colours in Table Tennis.

He was awarded three IPSC Silver Medals and the Best PT Leader award. He was awarded the PT Jersey. He gave the LAMDA Examinations for Grades 6, 7 and 8. He was awarded House Colours.

“Rishabh is a very sensible and hardworking boy. He is a natural leader who inspired his peers as well as his juniors to give in their best for a cause. Best of luck Rishabh for a wonderful life ahead.”

-Mr Rashid Sharfuddin

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He was awarded Full Colours in Football. He was awarded the First Aid Label and also achieved the standard of a RLSS Lifesaver. He was also awarded House Colours.

“Your skills in football can be beaten only by your beguiling baby looks! I will miss your sense of humour and your passion for quadi football. All the best for all your pursuits. “ -Mr Manu Mehrotra

He was awarded Full Colours in Swimming and was awarded the Standard Test Gold Badge in Swimming. He was also awarded Art Colours. He was awarded the Bronze and Silver IAYP awards. He also achieved the standard of a RLSS Lifeguard. He was also awarded House Colours.

Suraj Bishnoi

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He was a School Prefect. He was the Boy-inCharge of the Entertainment Committee.

He was the House Football Captain and the House Badminton Captain.

He represented the School in football, hockey and badminton.

He also represented the School at the Under-19 Football National Tournament. He represented the House in football, hockey, badminton, swimming, basketball and in the OneAct Play.

Pranjal Bhatt

Doon is like a permanent tattoo; you cry when you get it, but boast about it forever.

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He was the House Athletics Captain. He was an Editor of The DSAM and the Boy-in-Charge of the Art STA.

“Ever smiling and cheerful! I will remember you for your softspoken nature and your passion towards your pursuits. Your hard work in swimming and in athletics will be remembered. All the very best for everything in life. “ -Mr Manu Mehrotra

He represented the School in athletics, basketball, swimming and cricket. He represented the School at the Districts Tournament in athletics and swimming. He also represented the School at the RLSS Swimming National Competition.

He was a member of the School Choir. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics, swimming, basketball, PT, dance and music.

My journey from a nobody to a somebody.

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Anshul Tibrewal

80-O

He was the Boy-in-Charge of the Doon Stock Exchange. He was the Co-Founder of the Waste Management Initiative and the Sai’s Bakes Initiative. He was the House Hindi Debating Captain, House Poetry Recitation Captain and the House Boxing Captain.

I have found motivation in the most vapid of all places only to learn not to splurge it for similarly unremarkable intents.

He represented the School in debating, quiz, MUN and public speaking. He represented the House in football, hockey, boxing, Shanti Swarup Essay Competition, debating, quiz, athletics, PT and the Journalism Expo.

Arihant Arora

“Anshul Tibrewal had the element of critical thinking and looked for solutions to challenges thrown at him. His consistency of temperament was commendable and he believed in achieving his goals through the sweat of his brow. I wish him all the best in life.”

-Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali

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An individual who exemplifies humility, selfesteem and class.

An individual who exemplifies humility, selfesteem and class.

He represented the School in basketball. He represented the House in basketball, hockey and quiz.

He was adjudged first in the Inter-House Hindi Poetry Recitation Competition. He won the Best Video Journalists in the Inter-Houe Journalism Expo, 2013. He was awarded the Gold Badge for Reading in the Seniors category. He was placed second in the BG Pitre Science Short Story Competition. He was placed third in the Eureka Science Quiz. He attained a Distinction in the LAMDA Examination for Grade 8. He was awarded a scholarship for achieving the highest aggregate marks in Science in ICSE, 2012, and was also awarded various Marker Cups. He was awarded House Colours.

He was awarded the Ravindra Dhawal Cup for General Knowledge.

“Arihant was an extremely sharp student and the most endearing quality about him was his positive attitude towards life on the whole. He followed the principle of ‘work hard, play hard!’. He was always by the House, encouraging the team; be it on the games field or on quizzing on stage. However, the one moment when the entire House misses him is at our House Feasts which were characterized by his music! We look forward to DJ Arihunt accomplishing his dream in the coming future!”

-Mr Nitin Chauhan 204

He was the National Topper in Economic Applications in ICSE, 2012. He was awarded the Most Outstanding Delegate at DAIMUN, 2012. He was awarded the 3rd Prize at the Eureka Science Quiz. He was also awarded House Colours.

Nakul Talwar

47-O

He was a School Prefect. He was the Founder of the Waste Management initiative. He was a Chairperson at the DSMUN, 2013. He was the Editor-in-Chief of The Blueprint, and the Senior Editor of The DSIR. He was the House Athletics Captain.

Nakul Talwar has always been an ideal figure among the Sc form. His positive and never giving up attitude made him achieve the impossible.

A holistic personality with lots of patience and immense strength. I wish him all the best and his presence will always be missed in my class. If you dream, you can do it.

-Mr Ashish Dean

He represented the School at various MUN’s and quizzes. He represented the School in football and athletics.

He represented the House in football, athletics, hockey and basketball.

Varun Michael Pais

He was awarded House Colours.

Our war cry.

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He was the Boy-in-Charge of the Audio-Visual Squad.

He was the House Basketball Captain.

“Can’t imagine you without also imagining speakers, wires, leads, etc.! Your work in the AV Squad was amazing and your dedication towards it has inspired the boys working with you. I am sure that you will put the same passion in making your career. Have a good one!”

-Mr Manu Mehrotra

He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, swimming and basketball.

‘Dosco’ comes with a sense of responsibility. The moment you call yourself one – you’re in the limelight.

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Nipurn Datta

62-O

He was the House Captain of Oberoi House.

He was the Editor-in-Chief of Yuv Arpan. He was the House Hockey Captain and the House Senior PT Leader.

A person capable of succeeding in any condition.

He represented the School in athletics. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, swimming, football, swimming, athletics, PT, dance, music and in the One-Act Play.

Shreshta Khetan

“Your turnout was impeccable, your behaviour was exemplary, and your personality was worthy of emulation. You were a hard-tofind combination of politeness and firmness. With your hard work and perseverance I am sure that you will go a long long way in life!”

-Mr Manu Mehrotra

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He was the House Music Captain, and the House Social Service Secretary. He was also the Founder of the Poster Removal Campaign.

He represented the House in music, PT, marching, dance and athletics.

The Doon School transformed me into a harmonious note; from the discordant note I was before.

He was awarded the Most Well-Behaved SC Former Award.

He was also adjudged the Best Aeromodeller for 2012.

He was awarded the Bronze IAYP award. He also gave the LAMDA Examinations for Grades 6, 7 and 8. He was also awarded House Colours.

He was adjudged first in the Instrumental category of the Inter-House Music Competition in his D, B and A forMs

“One of the most loving and respectful students in the House. You will be remembered for your contribution to music and for your very pleasant personality. I am sure that we will hear about your music album release soon from the media!”

-Mr Manu Mehrotra

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Lanka Adarsh

He was awarded the King Constantine Award for contribution to Round Square Ideals. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for Mathematics in S-Form. He was also adjudged as the Best First Aider in the Inter-House First Aid Competition. He was also placed second in the Dipanker Sen Science Quiz in B-Form. He was also awarded the Mahindra Sen Talent Search Scholarship and the Best Musician Award in C-Form.

He was the School First Aid Captain.

He was the Boy-in-Charge of the Doon School’s Poet Society and the Round Square Society.

“It is rare that a teacher comes across such an exceptional student like Lanka Adarsh. His presence in the class takes the standard of the class to new heights. I wish him success.”

-Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj

He represented the School in various Round Square Service Projects and Round Square Conferences.

He represented the School at the Biotechnology Fest, Lucknow. He represented the House in PT, athletics, cricket, hockey, first aid and music.

Siddharth Bhardwaj

He was awarded Full Colours in Tennis.

64-O

An identity who’s potential is still to be realized.

19-O

He was the House Hockey Captain and the House Tennis Captain.

He represented the School in tennis, and he represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, tennis, PT and marching.

“Always smiling and laughing and always found in Tata House! I will remember you for your hairdo and for your very respectful nature. I wish you all the best in life!”

-Mr Manu Mehrotra

The Doon School is a site of personal development.

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Madhav Dutt

35-K

He was the House Captain. He was a chairperson in DSMUN 2013. He was the Boy-in-Charge of IAYP and Paper Recycling. He was the Secretary of the Art Society. He was the Editor-in-Chief of The Echo, Editor of The Doon School Weekly and the Senior Editor of The Econocrat. He was the House Athletics and English Debating Captain. He was the Chairperson of DISEC at DSMUN, 2013.

Everything

He represented the school in the Annual Memorial Hugh Catchpole Debates and the International Individual School’s Public Speaking Competition. He represented the School at HMUN Boston, Sanskriti MUN and DSMUN. He represented the School in art, athletics and debating. He represented the House in hockey and football.

Aahan Menon

78-K

He was the House Council Secretary.

He was a Chairperson at DSMUN 2013. He led his house in Athletics and Football.

It’s a whole world in 70 acres.

He represented the School in football and the IPSC team at Nationals football. He represented the State of Goa at multiple football tournaments.

He represented the School at various MUNs. He was a Senior Representative of the House in the School Council. He represented the House in hockey, football and athletics.

He was awarded School Colours, House Colours and School Art Colours. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for General Proficiency. He was awarded a Special prize in the Scholar’s Home Art Competition. He attained the 2nd place in BG Pitre Science Essay Contest. He was awarded the bronze, silver and gold awards and the IAYP Blazer. He won first prize in the Hopetown Art Festival and second in the IPSC Art Festival. He won the Most Outstanding Delegate’s awards at Sanskriti MUN and WEMUN. He was awarded the Bonalata Das Tahmina Salim Ali Trophy for 2013.

“I shall never forget Madhav’s artistic contribution to The Doon School.

From his insightful, probing and gently mocking but always kind-hearted cartoons to his epic installation in the quadrangle at Founder’s 2014, for me he was the exemplar of the risk-taking but intelligent, civilized and cultivated Dosco who will set the world – and not just the South Garden – alight with admiration.”

-Dr Peter McLaughlin He received awards at various MUN conferences. He was chosen to represent Goa and the IPSC team at the national level in Football. He was awarded the Most Outstanding Contribution to School along with the School Football team. He was a part of the winning team at the IPSC Football Tournament. He was awarded Half Colours in Football.

“A thorough gentleman through and through known for his impeccable manners and turnout. Aahan will be remembered for his passion for football and for the way in which he trained the children from the Basti in the sport.

Aahan was determined to make it to the college of his choice in New York because he saw himself as a Wall Street banker and he managed to achieve at least half of that already. Always gentle yet firm with juniors, he could be relied upon to do a task that was set for him.”

-Mr Philip Burrett 208

He was awarded the Scholar’s Blazer and House Colours. He was awarded Best delegate in WEMUN, Most outstanding delegate in MCGSMUN and was a part of the Best delegation in MGSMUN, DSMUN, WEMUN and SMUN. He was placed Second in the Headmaster’s Cup for History. He attained merit in the LAMDA examinations for Grade 6.

Rishabh Tushnial

He was a School Prefect. He was the President of the MUN Club and Chairperson at the DSMUN 2012. He was the Editor-in-Chief of The Circle, Chief-of-Production of The Yearbook and Editor of The Econocrat and The Infinity. He was the House Hockey and Table Tennis captain. He was the Senior representative in the School Council. He was the Founder of the Koshish Initiative and Co-Founder of the iVote Initiative.

“Lurking behind his gruff and couldn’t care-less demeanour, there is a truly affectionate and caring person in Rishabh. All who have known him closely will miss Rishabh for his sense of humour, his ready repartees and ready laugh.”

-Mrs Purnima Dutta

He won the Weaves Tennis Open in 2013 in Kanpur. He was awarded the Bronze IAYP award. He received the First Aid Label. He was also awarded House Colours.

17-K

He represented the School in various MUNs, hockey and table tennis. He was a part of the Founders Day English Production in 2012.

He represented the House in cricket, hockey, basketball, table tennis, debating and in the One-Act Play.

Yash Malhotra

An amalgamation of unique identities who you’ve proud to call family

45-K

He was the House Tennis Captain. He was the head of the Fund Raising Committee of DSMUN 2013.

“Most of my conversations with Yash used to begin with the Macs and iPhones! Then of course the conversations used to turn to more serious stuff life in and beyond School. Yash or CNN / BBC as I used to call him because of his habit of producing news headlines, was a very focused student. He could always be found either studying for the SAT or for his ISC exaMs Rarely did I see him wasting his time away, and no wonder he got through Cornell! I am very happy for him and wish him all the luck for his future endeavours.”

-Mr Manu Mehrotra

He represented the School in tennis at the state level.

He represented his House in tennis, cricket, hockey, table tennis, badminton, athletics, marching, PT, first aid, and football. He also represented the House in the One-Act Play.

A Dosco wants to run before he can walk.

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Shubham Agarwal

88-K

He was the House Swimming Captain and the House Junior PT Leader. He was the Boy-in-Charge of the Motor Mechanics STA and Boy-in-Charge of the Nanda-ki-Chowki Slum Development Project. He was the Junior School Council Representative and a House Council Representative as well. He was the Editor of Yuv Arpan.

A ‘Dosco’ is a person who cannot be dissuaded from doing what they believe in.

He represented the School in various Founder’s Day Hindi Plays and the Harvard MUN. He was in the organizing committee of DSMUN and Kamla Jeevan InterSchool Debates. He represented the House in PT, swimming and athletics.

Abhishek Kakkar

“A very lovable and likable boy. It was always a pleasure to interact with him. I will remember him for his tenacity and for the respect that he accorded to everyone around him. All the very best for everything in life!”

-Mr Manu Mehrotra

70-K

He was a School Prefect. He was the House Dance Coordinator and House Basketball Captain.

Don’t know whether to be proud or aghast or both.

He was awarded the bronze, silver and gold IAYP awards and the IAYP Blazer. He gave the LAMDA Examinations for Grades 6,7 and 8. He was reawarded the First Aid Label. He achieved the standard of a RLSS Life Saver and RLSS Life Guard.

He was awarded the Best Motor Mechanic of the year. He also signed the Headmaster’s Book of Good Conduct.

He represented the School in dance at various events. He represented the House in hockey, basketball, swimming and football. He was a part of the House’s One-Act Play and represented the House in dance. He was a part of the School Founder’s Play.

He won various art prizes.

“A real mentor for junior boys, Abhishek’s simplicity and openness is still fondly talked about in the House. I will remember that he always carried on his task amidst all adversities and the smile was never missing. His achievements will inspire many in the years to come and I value his responsibility as a prefect. I wish him all the best in his endeavours.”

-Mr Anjan Chowdhary

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Jai Singh Yadav He was awarded the First Aid Label. He was nominated for Best Delegate in DSMUN 2013. He attained a Merit in the LAMDA examinations for Grade 6.

He was the Boy-in-Charge of Cycling and the Boys Bank and Tuck Shop. He was the Co-Founder of the Young Entrepreneurship Conference and he was House First Aid Captain.

“I will never forget your farewell speech, which you gave in Hindi. Your contribution to the cycling STA too was remarkable. The regularity and commitment with which you handled the STA was impressive. In the House you had a very good presence and were very likable. I am sure that you will flourish in all your pursuits.”

-Mr Manu Mehrotra

He represented the School at various MUN’s. He represented the House in swimming, athletics, cricket, hockey and football.

Apekshit Goel He was awarded the Kanwar JB Singh medal for community service. He won various art prizes.

31-K

To me a Dosco means a person who can go into any situation, easy or tough, and come out on top, or pick himself back up with the same ‘josh’.

11-K

He was the School Social Service Secretary. He was the Boyin- Charge of Archives. He was the House Cricket Captain and directed his house’s Inter-House One-Act Play.

“Apekshit was a silent worker. He was dedicated, honest and hardworking.

One could sleep in peace after assigning work to Apekshit, a very trust worthy person. Social service saw new heights under his leadership. He kept the team together, and kept everyone working and moving very calmly. He did not believe in displaying authority and thus managed to work comfortably across the forMs” -Mrs Amrit Burrett

He represented the School at various social service projects. He represented the House in hockey and cricket.

It was a place which filled a whole life worth of time in six years.

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Diksha Makhija

93-K

She was the Editor of The DSAM.

She represented the School in badminton for Districts and in Round Square Projects in Uttarkhashi.

She won various art prizes including Sculptor of the Year in 2013.

“Very likable and hardworking girl.

Holds a lot of promises.”

-Mr Piyush Malviya

The word ‘Dosco’ to me is an independent, hardworking person and at the same time very down to earth.

Malini Malaviya

58-K

She was the Producer of the Houses OneAct Play.

She represented the House in PT, swimming and in the One-Act Play.

A person who has discovered himself or herself.

She was awarded School Dramatics Colours in Hindi and English. She received many art prizes and was awarded the trophy for Best Supporting Actress in Hindi and English plays. She has also achieved the standard of RLSS Lifesaver. She was awarded the Vimal Bhagat Trophy for excellence in English Drama.

“Ever smiling and graceful, Malini has achieved much in School. She has been active in a wide range of activities - from theatre and music to RLSS at the swimming pool.

Her unforgettable performances in How to Succeed Without Really Trying and Jesus Christ Superstar will be talked about for a long time to come. May she continue to blossom.”

-Ms Purnima Dutta

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Orijit Chatterjee

He was awarded School Art Colours. He won the Young Photographers Award and the National Photographer Award.

He was the Boy-in-Charge of Photography. He was the Chiefof-Production of the DSAM.

“Best known for his excellence in photography, Orijit will also be remembered for his cheerful smile, his gentle ways and his readiness to help. A true artist, he loved to paint as much as he enjoyed his photography and his contribution to The Yearbook will be remembered by all.”

-Ms Purnima Dutta

He represented the School in the Art IPSC Competition.

He represented the House in athletics and cricket.

Doon was truly amazing as it has transformed me into a true gentleman and it has taught me how to live.

Namanshree Jain He was awarded School Music Colours. He was adjudged the Best German Student in C and D forms and Best Musician in A form.

57-K

32-K

He was School Orchestra Leader. He was House Music Captain and House Western Band Leader.

“Determination, diligence, focus and seriousness of purpose: Namanshree applied all these to music, as he did to every aspect of his life at Doon. An exceptionally versatile musician, who led the orchestra on his sarod with flair and distinction, he also enriched many School concerts with his bass, classical and electric guitar playing.

One such performance that stands out is his powerful opening of the rock opera ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at the Founder’s Day production.”

-Mrs Priya Chaturvedi

He represented the School as a part of the part of the Western Band at DSMUN, Earth Day conference and as a member of the School Orchestra in Hopetown School Cultural Festival “Izzar-E-Humar”. He represented the House in the music, One-Act Play, PT and marching.

Being a ‘Dosco’ means that you have been given the responsibility to make the world a better place.

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Kunal Kanodia

77-K

He was a School Prefect. He was the Secretary General of DSMUN 2013. He was the Editor-in-Chief of The Econocrat and The Chinar. He was the Senior Editor of The Doon School Weekly and he was the Editor of The Circle and DSIR. He was the President of the Udaan Club. He was the House Hindi Debating Captain, Shanti Swarup Essay Competition Captain and the Journalism Expo Captain.

He was a Chairperson in DSMUN 2012.

Doon taught me to live as if I were to die tomorrow, but to learn as if I were to live forever.

He represented the School at various MUN conferences. He represented the School in various Debating competitions including the India-Pakistan Debates.

He represented the House in debating.

Arnav Goel

“Kunal has been a diplomat and organizer par excellence. He challenged himself to his limits and never settled for anything less.

Here is wishing him a wonderful career and life ahead. Best of luck!”

-Mr Rashid Sharfuddin

68-K

He was the Executive Director of the Young Entrepreneurship Conference. He was the House Boxing Captain and House Cross-Country Captain.

‘Dosco’ to me is more than just a word. It defines me.

If I were to put it in one sentence, I would just like to say, ‘There are two ways to live life. There’s the normal way, and then there’s the Dosco way.

He was awarded School Colours. He was awarded the Scholar’s Blazer. He won Best Delegate at DSMUN, NAIMUN and SMUN. He was awarded the Most Promising Speaker at the RIMC Debates. He was a part of the winning team of the Chuckerbutty Debates. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for IB History and Hindi. He was awarded the Gold Reading Awards at Senior, Medium and Junior levels.

He was placed second in the Historical Circle and the S.D. Sharma Essay Contest. He won the BG Pitre Science Short Story Essay Competition. He attained the Bronze award in LAMDA and was awarded the Bronze award in IAYP. He was awarded the First Aid Label. He was also awarded the Best Speaker in Inter and Intra School debates.

He represented the School in DSMUN 2013 and HMUN Beijing 2013. He represented the House in boxing.

He won various art prizes. He also received prizes at various Model United Nations.

“As House boxing captain he did his best to raise the standards of boxing in the House. Hailing from a small industrial town in Punjab, Arnav took time to settle in but despite all the odds he faced during his early years he turned out to be an encouraging and supporting senior. For Arnav his books and grades were his prime focus.”

-Mr Philip Burrett

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Pranay Raj Kapoor He was awarded the Scholar’s Blazer and the Headmaster’s Cups for IB Mathematics and Economics.

He was awarded Best Delegate at DSMUN 2013 and Honorable Mention at WEMUN and DAIMUN. He attained Distinctions in LAMDA Examinations for Grades 5 to 8. He was the Runner Up in the Vikram Seth Junior Statesman Poetry Recitation Competition and received a Silver Reading Award.

72-H

He was the Secretary of the School Study Council. He was the Boy-in-Charge of HAM Radio. He was the head delegate at DSMUN 2013. He was also an Editor of The Infinity.

“Pranay prioritized his time well and focussed mainly on his academics throughout his time at the school.”

-Mr Biren Chamola

He was awarded Half Colours in Boxing. He was also the Best Loser in the Inter-House Boxing Competition 2013.

“The happy-go-lucky guy with a great sense of humour. His presence will be sorely missed. I wish him the best of luck in the future.”

-Mr Ashad Qezilbash

He represented the School at HMUN Boston, WEMUN Expo, DAIMUN and DSMUN. He represented the House in debating, PT and cricket.

Chirag Mittal

Something that will be by my side throughout.

56-H

He was the House Boxing Captain.

He represented the School in cricket and boxing. He represented the House in cricket, boxing, hockey, football, basketball and dance.

An experience to cherish and treasure.

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Kabir Sethi

5-H

He was awarded School Colours. He was awarded the Games Blazer.

He was awarded Full Colours in Cricket, Badminton and Hockey.

He received a Distinction in Grade 7 LAMDA Speaking of Verse and Prose. He was also awarded and re-awarded Full Colours in Squash.

He also received various awards in IPSC for Badminton. He was also awarded House Colours. He was awarded the Trophy for the Gentleman Player of the Year 2013.

He was a School Prefect. He was the School Cricket and School Badminton Captain. He was the Prefect’s Representative to the School Council.

He was also the House Badminton and Squash Captain. He was A Deputy Chairperson in DSMUN 2012.

One of the six things to experience before you die.

“Kabir has been a versatile sportsman with enormous skill and talent. He was academically proficient as well - responsible, thoughtful and mature - led by dedication and intelligence. He was very reliable and responsible student and his conduct never gave any reason to complain. A good citizen in every way.”

- Mr Deepak Sharma

He represented the School in Cricket, Hockey, Football, Badminton, Athletics and Squash. He also represented the School in various MUN Conferences and the Edwin Baker Conference on Sports Science in Singapore. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics, badminton, squash and basketball. He also debated for the House.

Vedant Khanna

89-H

He was the House Cricket and Chess Captain.

A great individual as well as a team player.

He represented the School in cricket and athletics.He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, chess , athletics and Shanti Swarup.

He came second in the Discus Throw Event for two years.

“I knew Vedant to be organised and efficient. His strong power of analysis and reasoning differentiated him as an individual.

His affable company will be missed.”

-Mr Mohammad Istemdad Ali

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Aamir Salim Shah

12-H

He was House Football Captain and junior PT leader.

He was awarded Half Colours in Football and Hockey. He was the runner up in the Inter-House Boxing Competition in the Super-Heavyweight category.

“Aamir was a balanced student and a strong academician. He was humble, well mannered and decent. I had a great time with him on and off my classroom. I always admired his readiness to stretch amidst all odds and this was noticed by me in his journey of the curriculum with me. He will be remembered for the respect that he accrued in this community.”

-Mr Anjan Chaudhary

He represented the School in boxing, football and hockey. He represented the House in football, hockey, boxing, athletics, basketball, swimming and debating.

Dhruv Prasad He was awarded the Games Blazer. He was awarded Half Colours in Football and Hockey.

Doon is a place where the bonds are so strong that the obscure turns into something meaningful.

29-H

He was a School Prefect. He was a Chairperson at the DSMUN 2013. He was the House Hockey Captain.

“Friendly , polite and versatile and a delightful young man. As a prefect , he was a constant source of support to me in managing the lives of the boys in the House. A top notch sportsman, he was instrumental in helping the House win in virtually all the sports.”

-Mr Biren Chamola

He represented the School in cricket, hockey, football and athletics. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics, swimming and basketball.

He represented the School in various MUNs.

Doon is about making mistakes and learning from them.

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Rahul Srivastava

48-H

He was the Secretary of the Senior English Debating Society and he was the House Debating Captain. He was the Chairperson in the DSMUN 2013 and was the Founder of the iVote initiative. He was the Editor-inChief of The DSIR and was a Senior Editor in The Yearbook. He was also a School Prefect.

A Dosco loves to shine under the lights; but when the stage is folded, the props are packed up, and the audience has left the building, he knows he’ll always have a friend waiting to take him home.

He represented the School in the IISPSC Debates 2011, Chuckerbutty Debates 2012 and 2013, Indo-Pak Debates 2013, Harvard MUN, Boston 2013, WEMUN Expo 2012, Cathedral MUN 2012, DSMUN 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and basketball. He was the Lead Actor in the Founder’s Day English Play 2012 and Lead Actor in the InterHouse One-Act Play 2012. He represented the House in basketball, debating, dance, quiz and dramatics.

Sarvshrest Singh

He was awarded the Scholar’s Blazer and School Debating Colours. He was the winner of the Bakhle Literature Essay Contest 2012 and winner of the Vikram Seth Poetry Recitation Contest 2013. He was the Best Speaker in the Finals and SemiFinals of the Chuckerbutty Debates 2012. He was awarded the most outstanding delegate in Harvard MUN and WEMUN Expo, 2012. He was awarded the IAYP Bronze and Silver Medals. He was also awarded House Colours.

“Rahul usually was the “cool dude” as long as it was not the moment before Chucks finals or the return of the marked English scripts, then Rahul would be visibly nervous.

Yet, he always performed well despite his nervousness. Ever the child, Rahul tried hard to appear the cool cucumber and he took the School in his measured stride.

Rahul, for me, embodies poise, the gentleman that a Dosco is supposed to be.”

-Mr Debasish Chakrabarty

28-H

He was the House Table Tennis Captain.

He was the champion in the super heavy weight category in the Inter-House Boxing Competition.

He was also awarded House Colours. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for IB French.

He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics and basketball.

Six years of a person’s life that amount to a life of six years.

“One of the most humble and noble gentlemen I’ve come across, I wish him the best of luck for all his future endeavours.”

-Mr Ashad Qezilbash

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Imaan Pariat Mehta He was the North India Topper in the Trinity Guildhall Music Examinations for Grade 2 in Classical Guitar and was the Best Guitarist in the Battle of the Bands in 2011 and 2012. He was awarded House Colours. He signed the Honours Book of Good Conduct.

He was the School Popular Band Leader and the House Music Captain.

“He had the Midas touch on the guitar and his music entertained, enlivened and inspired the School community.

Imaan wore his remarkable talent lightly with his trademark laid-back style, and with a deprecating shrug and smile for all the accolades heaped on him after a performance. Music and football were his twin passions in School and he enjoyed both to the hilt.”

-Mrs Priya Chaturvedi

He was awarded Full Colours in Boxing and Hockey.

26-H

He represented the School in the School Popular Band and the Founder’s Day Orchestra.

He represented the House in music, football, hockey, cricket, athletics and PT. A ‘Dosco’, in my eyes, is simply a person who has spent six years studying at the Doon School. It is what the person accomplishes that defines him, simply being a ‘Dosco’ does not.

Durgesh Agarwal

81-H

He was the School Boxing Captain. He was the House Boxing Captain, PT Leader and House Monitor.

He represented the School in hockey.

“From a shy and unsure little fellow, it was a joy to see Durgesh leave school with so much poise and confidence.”

-Mr Biren Chamola

Once in a life time experience.

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Shantanu Singh

3-H

He was Boy-in-Charge of the Audio Visual Squad. He was the producer and technical director of the House One-Act Play.

He represented the House in cricket, hockey and football.

“Shantanu has been a silent, but a very hard-working boy.

His commitment to AV in School is highly commendable. It was worth giving him School colours.”

-Mr Ramesh Bhardwaj

Dosco is a way of living life wherever in the World you may be.

Suyash Bishnoi

50-H

He was the Boy-in-Charge of the Trophy Squad.

He was the House Basketball and Athletics Captain. He was the Stage Manager for the House One-Act Play.

Isolation, detachment, discrimination, fundamentalism and narrowness have no place in the true Dosco vision.

He was awarded School Colours.

He represented the School in basketball and athletics. He represented the House in cricket, football, athletics, basketball, hockey and dance.

He was awarded Half Colours in Basketball and Athletics. He was also awarded a Silver medal in the District Athletics Meet.

“Mature, composed and dignified - a gentleman to the very core, Suyash always conducted himself with dignity and poise. Goodluck and Godspeed.”

-Mrs Jasbeer Kaur Anand

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Yashraj Agarwal He was awarded School Hindi Debating Colours and re-awarded School Dramatics Colours. He was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Award and the Gold Reading Award.

He attained the level of Life Saver in the RLSS exam. He was also awarded House colours.

66-H

He was the School Hindi Public Speaking Society and the Boy-in-Charge of the Film-Cut Society. He was the House Debating Captain and House Social Service Secretary. He was also the House Council Secretary.

He represented the School on Student Exchange to St. Marks School, Texas, USA. He also represented the School in debating. He represented the House in debating and the One-Act Play.

“Always courteous and polite, it was a joy to get to know Yash. Over the years he proved himself in Hindi debating and plays.”

-Mr Biren Chamola

He was awarded the Scholar’s Blazer. He was awarded the Headmaster’s Cup for English, Headmaster’s Cup for History, Headmaster’s Cup for IB Chemistry and was awarded a scholarship for getting the Highest Marks in English in ICSE. He was also awarded a Medal for his contribution to Social Service in 2012.

Arnav Joshi

‘Dosco’ for me means a transformation. It is a changing attitude, personality and behavior.

That being said, it does not mean changing values but struggling and surviving with them.

74-H

He was Boy-in-Charge of the Yoga SUPW. He was the House Athletics and First-Aid Captain. He was also the House Shanti Swarup Essay Writing Captain and the Senior representative to the Library Council.

“In the six years that I knew Arnav, beginning with borrowing his storybooks (historical novels) when he was a Martyn House D former, to being his Extended Essay supervisor ( History again!) in his Sc form, I came to appreciate the many interests that lay under his quiet exterior.

Spanish poetry and French cinema , running and yoga were some of his wide-ranging passions. Arnav is, above all, an avid learner, who will continue to explore the world of ideas, and the world is, indeed, his oyster.”

-Mrs Priya Chaturvedi

He represented the School at HMUN Boston, DSMUN, Sanskriti MUN, MCGSMUN, WEMUN Expo, IISPSC Canada and WIDPSC Durban.

For me a Dosco is someone who can ace his science exam in the morning, participate in a national debate in the afternoon, run a marathon in the evening and still have time to enjoy his friends’ company at night.

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Shikha Kothari

60-H

She was awarded various art prizes and received a certificate for attending 5 Days Special Adventure Course, 2009. She was also awarded the Sushma Sharma Memorial Trophy for the Best Craftsman of 2013.

She was the Student-in-Charge of the Art SUPW.

A cloud with several silver linings.

She represented the School at a Round Square Social Service Project held in Uttarkashi. She represented the House in PT and music. She also took part in the Founders’ Day Hindi production.

Pritika Sandhu

91-H

She was the Student-in-Charge of the Art STA and was a correspondent of the DSAM.

She represented the School in badminton and IPSC Art Competition. She represented the House in music, art, dance and dramatics.

The term Dosco is not just a word but is a tag that we will hold with full respect and honour for the rest of our lives.

“It’s been a pleasure teaching you. You have within you everything you need to continue to be successful. You can move mountains if you want. I wish you the best of luck.”

-Ms Anamika Ghose

She was awarded School Art Colours. She was also awarded the Best Painter, Best Tapestry Work, Best Textile Work and the Best Craftsman awards.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Henry Stanley Haskins It was a joy to have you in my class.

Always keep your head up high.

Wishing you all the very best for your future endeavours.”

-Ms Anamika Ghose

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Nayan Manchanda He was awarded School Music Colours for Dance. He was also awarded various art prizes.

85-H

He was the House Badminton Captain. He was also the House Dance Coordinator.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A thorough gentleman, Nayan was much liked and respected by the entire community. His cheerful disposition and his willingness to help others will be sorely missed.â&#x20AC;?

-Mr Biren Chamola

He represented the School in badminton. He represented the House in cricket, hockey, football, athletics, badminton and dance.

A person who always Something worthfor living. comes through everyone.

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In the process of making such a large publication, we often overlook the pitch-perfect moments.

What we bring you here is just a small, yet important, part of a larger experience, which is The Yearbook.

We are family

To the good times gone by

The human touch that is brought to this publication through the board and every member of our School community is perhaps something that is without doubt what makes this publication special.

We thank you for making this journey so memorable. Without you all, there really is no Yearbook.

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Standing Tall

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CapichĂŠ

Early to bed. Early to rise.

On que

Firing Squad 226

The holy trinity

On a lighter note

TouchĂŠ

Shine on you crazy diamond

The missing piece

Where eagles dare

The kids are alright

The boys are back

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Scholarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blazer

The Fortiori

Sitting (L to R): Udbhav Aggarwal, Rahul Srivastava, Mr Vinay Pande, Kunal Kanodia, Devesh Sharma Standing(L to R): Pranay Raj Kapoor, Rishabh Tusnial, Ritesh Popat Shinde

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Gamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Blazer

A few good men

Sitting (L to R): Shivan Tandon, Ashish Rao, Sidharth Sethi, Kabir Sethi, Mr Deepak Sharma, Shivaan Seth, Dhruv Prasad, Raghav Kothiwal, Waseefullah Khan Sherwani Standing (L to R): Suhel Karara, Devang Mehra, Ishan Sandhu

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Prefectorial Body

Raisina Hill

Sitting (L to R): Rahul Srivastava, Kabir Sethi, Nipurn Dutta, Madhav Dutt, Agni Raj Singh, Dr Peter McLaughlin, Siddharth Sethi, Shivaan Seth, Zorawar Singh, Mahanaaryaman J Scindia, Ritesh Shinde Standing (L to R): Chaitanya Fatehpuria, Kunal Kanodia, Raniz Bordoloi, Abhishek Kakkar, Rishabh Tusnial, Suraj Bishnoi, Vishal Tummala, Jai Khanna, Dhruv Prasad, Vikramaditya Kapur, Nakul Talwar

School Captain Sidharth Sethi

House Captains Hyderabad House Jaipur House Kashmir House Oberoi House Tata House

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School Council

The Senate

Sitting (L to R): Mr Anjan Chaudhary, Dr Mohan Chandra Joshi, Mr Piyush Malviya, Mr Sameer L Katre, Kabir Sethi, Mr Prabhakaran Nair, Sidharth Sethi, Dr Peter McLaughlin, Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Mr Vinay Pande, Rahul Srivastava, Mr Deepak Sharma, Mr Ashad Qezilbash, Mrs Priyanka Majumdar, Mr Pankaj Joshi Standing (L to R): Mahir Kasewa, Sumer Singh Vaidya, Amol Pajni, Rudra Srivastava, Dhruv Madhav Johri, Codanda Cariapa Chengappa, Shivaan Seth, Rishabh Tusnial, Devesh Sharma, Madhav Dutt, Vikramaditya Kapur, Anshul Tibrewal, Sasyak Pattnaik, Mahanaaryaman J Scindia, Udbhav Agarwal, Vrindam Nagpal, Smayan Sahni, Dhruv Neil Pais

Chairperson Dr Peter McLaughlin Secretary Karan Pratap Singh Kairon 231

School Colours

Black and Gold

Sitting (L to R): Karan Pratap Singh Kairon, Madhav Dutt, Dr Peter McLaughlin, Kabir Sethi, Kunal Kanodia Standing (L to R): Shivaan Seth, Shantanu, Ritesh Shinde, Udbhav Agarwal

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Of perseverance and faith

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Editors-in-Chief Guruansh Singh Ritvik Kar Associate Editors Ishaan Kapoor Rudra Srivastava Tanmay Nautyal Tushaar Sharma Vansh Aggarwal

Photographers Mr Arnab Mukherjee Aditya Dhingra Amal Agarwal

Senior Editors Aditya Vardhan Bhardwaj Akarsh Tibrewal Ashvin Solanki Azan Brar Shlok Jain

Special Editor Vedant Mehra

Faculty Coordinators Ms Purnima Dutta Ms Stuti Kuthiala Mr Skand Bali Mr Arnab Mukherjee Dr Mohammad Hammad Farooqui Mrs Elizabeth McLaughlin

Chiefs-of-Design Mr Arnab Mukherjee Abhayraj Jain

Assistant Designer Udai Nath Behl

Cover Art Ritvik Kar

Chief-of-Production Sayuj Dhandhania Editors Divyansh Goel Jai Ahuja Suhel Karara

Special Thanks Dr Peter McLaughlin Mr Rishabh Sharma Mrs Abia Qezilbash Dr Vidhukesh Vimal The Doon School Old Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Society Photography Club Video Club

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