To be a Doon School boy is privilege enough, but to be invited to deliver the Founder’s Day Address – and that too on the Golden Jubilee of one’s Class, is surely indulgence in extremis. My grateful thanks to the Governor and the Board and to the Headmaster for this rare honour.

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This is to inform you that Col. C R Subia (212-J '50) passed away on March 24th, 2007 in Jamshedpur. He had suffered a stroke and was in coma for several days. His funeral was held in Jamshedpur on March 25th, 2007. The community extends its condolences to his family and friends.

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Mr. Vijay Handa (22-J '57) passed away on February 14th, 2007. The community extends its condolences to his family and friends.

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Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath (366-H '64) will lead a 100-member delegation to the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland beginning later this month. The delegation also includes Gautam Thapar (200-H '79) and Dhruv Sawhney (37-K '59).

Over 2,000 participants from around the world will discuss issues pertaining to economics, geopolitics, technology and society over the five-day meet on the theme — "The Shifting Power Equation."

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Deelip Surve (69-H '58) passed away on 1/10/2006. He is survived by my mother Mrs Fawzia Surve ( Ph+91-22-26414839) and his children Maiaasa and Imraan Surve.

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Ashok "Chicky" Ranganathan (33-T '51) passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 in New Delhi. He will be deeply missed by family and friends. A memorial service will be held on 30th December 2006 between 3.45 and 5.00 p.m. at the first floor, Chinmaya Mission Auditorium at 85 Lodhi Road for all those who knew and loved him.

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Ashoka "Chicky" Ranganathan (33-T '51) passed away on December 18th, 2006 while in Delhi. The community extends its condolences to his family and friends.

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Harprit S. Sandhu (279-K '57) is trying to get in touch with Vikram Bhide (18-K '57). If you can help, please email Harprit at harprit_sandhu@hotmail.com

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Lalit Nirula (142-K '59) and Deepak Nirula (165-K '68) have sold their Nirulas fast food empire to a joint venture between a Malaysian based private equity firm and an Indian hotelier. The newly appointed managing director of the chain is Samir Kuckreja (179-HB '84) who is Lalit's nephew. The chain, with over 60 outlets operating in five states, successfully caters to the Indian palate of over 50,000 guests every day.

Both Lalit and Deepak have done an immense amount for the school and the DSOBS over the last few decades.

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Mr. Shomie Das is a former headmaster of The Doon School and the grandson of the school's founder, Satish Ranjan Das. In a recent interview with Doon Online, he talked about his days at Doon, how Doon is evolving and education in India. When asked about his achievements as Headmaster of The Doon School, Mr. Das replied, "I think I was able to liberalise the general atmosphere greatly and also raise the academic standards without putting additional pressure on the boys. I was often accused of being too liberal!"

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Roshan Seth (186-J '59), Promod Chawla(280-J '58), Prem S Jha (84-K '54) and Tara Sinha (mother of Ravi Sinha, 813-JB '81) helped the Election Commission during the recently completed Bihar elections. Their support was a National Network for India intiative. Read Promod's article to learn more about the great work that the NNFI and the National Campaign for India are doing.

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Dhruv Sawhney (37-K '59) gets the highest civilian honour from the French government for furthering the relationship between the two countries.

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Indian Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar (55-T '57) thanks the Dosco community and the DSOBS for helping the Tsunami victims in his constituency.

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Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Panchayati Raj Mani Shankar Aiyar (55-T '57) on Saturday announced a highly ambitious project called Rural Business Hubs, which will aim to eradicate rural poverty. He is also the author of Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist.

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Triveni Engineering is strengthening its businesses of sugar and engineering to emerge stronger, finds out Dilip Maitra. IT needs a lot of guts to ask investors to buy shares of a company at a premium if it is in the commodity business like sugar which suffers from near stagnation in price, slow growth in consumption and no product differentiation opportunity.

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The Batch of 1955 will be celebrating their "Golden Jubilee" over Founders Day in Dehra Dun from Friday, October 21st to Sunday, October 23rd, 2005. To learn more email Ashok Mehta (295-H '55) at ashokruthmehta@yahoo.com

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Padmanabha Gopinath (154-H '54) is serving as the Counsellor to the Director-General of the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to that, he worked for the United Nations. He has been recognized by Kofi Annan for his contributions to the UN System.

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Mani Shankar Aiyar has set his eyes on the new kid on the block: Sania Mirza. The Petroleum Minister wants the state-run oil companies to take her under their wings so that the new tennis sensation can settle in her game.

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Captain Amarinder Singh is not being recognized here because he is the Maharaja of Patiala. Or because he is the Punjab State Congress President. But because he's recently written a book that chronicles some of the greatest but unfortunately almost forgotten battles that India has fought since 1947.
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