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Winter 2002
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| Hari Dang (Padma Shri), batch of 1970, recently published a book titled "Himalayan Environment -Issues and Concerns of Conservation and Development." The book was released by Mr. N. D. Tiwari, the Chief Minister of Uttaranchal on Tuesday, January 14th, 2003. The book has been released under the Indian Mountaineering Foundation International Himalayan Environment Programme. Email vedams@vedamsbooks.com to purchase a copy. |
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Prannoy Roy (66-J '66) also known as Tempest, was featured as one of the fifty most influential people in India in the January issue of India Today. Prannoy runs NDTV, a television production company in New Delhi. |
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| Chandrachur Singh (484-JB '87) has signed on for a film titled Agnipank, which is based on the Indian Air Force. The other members of the cast include Rahul Dev and Shamita Shetty. |
| The January 13th issue of India Today highlights global Indians that are doing India proud. Two Doscos feature in the list - Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh. Lets hope The Doon School continues to produce global success stories that do the country and the school proud. |
| The Economic Times has a front page article titled "Scramble for Dosco Teachers -For wannabe Doons, don from hills is a boon" that discusses how Doon teachers are in high demand as principals all over the country. The founders of the Doon school probably never realized that Doon would not only educate future leaders but also breed strong principals and teachers. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Tejeshwar Singh (354-T '63) read with his well modulated voice carefully selected excerpts from "Out of God's Oven - Travels in a factured land" by Dom Moraes and Sarayu Srivatsa at the book's launch at the Taj Hotel in New Delhi on December 23rd, 2002. Tejeshwar is the Managing Director of Sage Publications. |
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| The September 2002 issue of the Rose Bowl has been added to Doon Online. Be sure to read about the Class of 51 Golden Jubilee Anniversary in it. In separate news, Shaukat Pal Singh Sikand (718-HB '80) has been selected as the only Indian member of an International Rafting Expedition in Chile which is supported by National Geographical Adventure. |
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Fall 2002
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| ”Golf Bonanza” - The Doon vs Mayo golf fixture for the Gibson Goodwill Golf Cup will be held on Dec 1st, 2002 at Jaypee Greens, Greater Noida starting at 8am. Lunch, beer and prize distribution will start at 12.30 pm. Cost of lunch Rs. 350/- per head. Contact info@dsobs.org for more info. |
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The Doon School Weekly celebrated its 2000th issue on Nov 9th, 2002. Congratulations to all the managers and editors past and present. |
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Harry Gill (544-JA '93) ran the New York Marathon on Nov 3rd. He finished 14,902 out of 30,000 odd participants. |
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For the first time in its history, the INSEAD MBA program in France has four Doscos in its program at the same time: Vijayant Khosla(K '84), Asheesh Malaney (92-KA '89), Sanjay Pandit (127-HB '90), and Saurabh Saklani (378-KA '92).
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Television personality, Karan Thapar (238-JA '71) wrote an editorial titled "Of priests and presidents" about Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam's Founders Day speech. |
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| Malvinder Singh (136-JB '90) has been appointed Director of Ranbaxy India. Mani Shankar Aiyer (56-T '57) wrote an editorial titled "Two hung elections" and several Dehra Dun schools were raided by income tax authorities excluding The Doon School. Discuss accounting regularities around the world in Virtual Doon. |
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The President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, will be visiting The Doon School on October 19th, 2002 to attend the 67th Founders Day celebrations as the Chief Guest. View the Founders Day schedule for more details on when he is speaking. |
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| The batch of 1962 is celebrating its 40th Year of Leaving with a field trip to Mussoori. If you graduated in 1962 and did not get the circular, read it here. |
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| Get to know your fellow Doscos by joining a conversation in Virtual Doon, and inviting others to join. The batches of 1992, 1995, and 1999 have recently posted messages. To enter you'd need to use the forum username and password (Hint it begins with "c" and is the name of the Doon School estate). |
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| Anuroop “Tony” Singh was featured in an India Today article titled "Salad days in time and motion" Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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The Vikram Seth Spotlight now includes his 1992 Founders Day speech. Visit the Vikram Seth spotlight to learn more about one of Doon's most famous alumni. |
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| Devendra Singh, Dean of Studies (DVS) at the Doon School, was presented with the National Award for teachers on September 5, 2002, by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. |
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Samir Modi (602-TB '88) has produced a coffee table book on AIDS called The Positive Side. The book was launched by the Chief Minister of Delhi at an event at the Maurya Sheraton Hotel. Several Doscos including Mohit Jayal, Sharad Sheru Sharma, Robin Roy, Vivek Gupta, Gagan Sinha attended the event. More information on the book can be found at the Modicare Foundation website. |
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| Roshan Lal of M/s Mela Ram and Sons passed away on August 10th, 2002. Popularly known as Mr. Mela Ram he has been associated with the Doon School since partition. Doon Online extends its condolences to his family and friends. Post your memories of Mr. Mela Ram in the Memories forum of Virtual Doon. |
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Summer 2002
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| A new open source version of Virtual Doon (the Dosco discussion board) has been launched! Register and be one of the first to start a conversation. You will need to use the old username and passowrd to access it (Hint the username and password begin with the letter "c") Doon Online will be providing viewing access to the old discussion board soon. |
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| Naveen Patnaik the Chief Minister of Orissa and Anang Udai Singh Deo (42-T '62) Orissa Energy Minister were featured in an Economic Times article that discussed the power issues in Orrisa. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Jyotiraditya Scindia (632-JB '88) was interviewed by the Times of India on June 2nd, 2002. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Nikhil Nanda was featured in an Economic Times article on May 18th, 2002 titled "Nikhil Nanda: The business of life." Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Deepak Chandhoke (375- H '70) was killed by a bullet in an attack while on his way to work in Shillong in May. Vijay, his elder brother who was in the car with him was also killed. He is survived by his elderly mother, wife Rita and daughter Kanika. Doon Online extends its condolensces to his family and friends. |
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| The serial Jugalbandi, which was directed and produced by Gyan Seth (271-J '57) has been selected for screening at the Golden Rose Television Festival at the Montreux Palace Hotel in Switzerland. Jugalbandi was developed as a 13 serial Music series for DD - Bharti and featured leading exponents of different fields of music. |
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Spring 2002
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The Doon School student choir-orchestra put on its third major concert this time in Chennai on April 11th, 2002. The concert was a resounding success. Read its review "Raga meets rhythm" from The Hindu newspaper in the Press Coverage. |
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| Doon Online wishes all members of the Doon Community a prosperous and happy New Year. Watch for continuous improvements, updates and new features in 2002. |
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| Sandeep Khosla was featured in an article titled "Coffee, beer, food, but he's thinking of the building" in the December 23rd edition of the Times of India. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Outlook Magazine ranks The Doon School as one of the 10 best schools in India and talks of how Doon aims to be one of the ten best schools in the world. Read the article in the Press Coverage. The complete listing of schools can be found at OutlookIndia.com |
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| The December 2001 issue of Inside Outside magazine includes a feature story on Rahoul Bir Singh (312-JA '92) who has his own architecture practice in Delhi. Rahoul can be reached at rahoulsingh@hotmail.com |
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Winter 2001
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| Learn about Doscos who were in New York at the time of the terrorist attacks. Fortunately, no one was directly affected by the tragedy. Visit the Sikh Communications Council, an organization created to prevent discrimination against Sikhs in America in the wake of the terrorist attacks. |
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| Sarabjit Bhatia (518-JB '88) is a Vice President at Zurich Capital Markets in New York, NY (USA). He can be reached via email at sbhatia2002@yahoo.com |
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| David MacDougall will be showing the second Doon School film "With Morning Hearts" at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York (at the American Museum of Natural History) on Monday, 5 November, 2001. Visit the Doon School Chronicles section to learn more about David's work. |
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Fall 2001
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| Air Marshal Brijesh Dhar Jayal started his career by joining JSW (academy) where he won the Sword of Honour. He joint the IAF as a fighter pilot andwas sent to the Empire Test Pilot's School, England. After that he went on to become one of India's most accomplished test pilots with over 4000 hours on jet fighters like the Jaguars, Mig 21s, and Mig 29s among others. He retired in 1994 as an Air Marshal (Comander in Chief South Western Air Command) and now lives in Dehra Dun and is on the Dosco Board of Governors as well. |
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| Doon Online has just learnt that Sanjiv Sinha, a special correspondent with The Indian Express died in the plane crash with Madhavrao Scindia on September 30th. Sanjiv Sinha used to teach at the Doon School. Doon Online extends its condolensces to his family and friends. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Senior Congress Leader Madhavrao Scindia tragically died in a plane crash on September 30th, 2001. He was the father of Jyotiraditya M Scindia (632-JB '88) and was an active member of the Doon School Community having served on the Board of Governors of the school. Doon Online extends its condolensces to his family and friends. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Thank you for helping us track down Doscos in the New York area at the time of the terrorist attacks. Fortunately no Doscos were directly affected by the terrorists attacks even though several live or work near the World Trade Center. Our thoughts go out to those affected by the tragedy. Please update your contact information in the Dosco Finder so that it is easy for fellow Doscos to establish contact in case of emergencies. |
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| Mani Shankar Aiyer (55-T '57) wrote an artice in the wake of the terrorist attacks titled "Vajpayee terminates a century of Gandhi and Nehru." Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Mohit Dhar Jayal (572-JB '87) informed us at Doon Online that we had left out an important dosco from the dynamic doscos list - his father Air Marshal Brijesh Dhar Jayal (101-T '51). If you know of any dynamic doscos that are missing from the list please . |
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| Sandeep Dutt (627-KB '79) of has started a website on the schools in the Doon valley. Called , it includes prospectus and admissions information on 150 schools in the Dehra Dun and Mussoorie area. He can be reached at sandeep@ebdbooks.com |
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Summer 2001
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| Read the Business Standard profile on Analjit Singh (132-J '71) titled in the . |
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Captain Amarinder Singh (45-T '59) has just released a new book titled, "Kargil, A Ridge Too Far." It is the first accurate account of the Kargil war according to Army Chief General S.Padmanabhaiah, who released the book at a function on July 27th, 2001. Proceeds from the book will go towards a trust set up for soldiers who fought in the war. Visit Dosco Spotlights for more information on Captain Amarinder Singh. |
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| Read the Times of India article, "A park to give peace a chance" which covers the Doon School Trisul Peak mountaineering expedition. The article can be found in the Press Coverage. |
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| Interestingly, the Agra Summit between India and Pakistan which ended this week was hosted by the Jaypee Palace Hotel which is owned by Suresh Jain (622-JA '88) and was extensively covered in the media by NDTV (for StarTV News) which is owned by Prannoy Roy (66-J '66). Prannoy Roy himself covered the summit along with Shivraj Prasad (356-HA '92) for NDTV. Arun Singh (207-K '60) ex-minister of state for defence is currently a special adviser on foreign affairs to Minister for External Affairs Jaswant Singh. |
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Martand Singh (222-K '63) edited a coffee-table book titled Handcrafted Indian Textiles that was published a few months ago. This book is based on the Visvakarma series of textile exhibitions (1980-1990) which he initiated with the Ministry of Textiles. These exhibitions were a part of the Festival of India programmes in the UK, France, Sweden, and Russia. |
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| Shiv Kunal `Fauji' Verma (182-H '76) as President of Canvas media is releasing a CD-ROM on the Taj Mahal and Mughal India. Also, following up on the Kargil Film he produced, he is preparing to shoot a film on the IAF which covers the aerial aspect of the War. Cleared by the Prime Minister to fly in all types of fighters, this will be his second film on the Air Force after `Salt of the Earth', which was the history of the IAF. This is being done as a joint venture with media Transasia. He can be reached at |
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On June 22nd and 23rd, Dr. M. S. Gill, President of the Himalayan Club, inaugurated a Trisul Exhibition and released the book "For Hills to Climb", Edited by Aamir Ali, a tribute to the contribution made by the Doon School to early Indian mountaineering. This was in memory of the June 23rd, 1951 Indian expedition to the Himalayan peak, Trisul 23, 360 ft. The summit team consisted of Gurdial Singh, Roy Greenwood and Dawa Thondup. It is generally accepted that this achievement marked the beginning of Indian Mountaineering.
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| Read about two Doscos, both role models in very different ways that were featured in the Press recently. Sanjay (Bunker) Roy (125-J '61) in a Times of India article titled "Working Ghost" and Arun Malhotra (325-K '64) in a Business Standard article titled "Prawns Lamb and Infotalk." |
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| Read Rajiv (Bunty) Chopra's (221-K '55) letter about the in the Press Coverage and find out how you can help. |
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| Imran Ahmad (455-HA '75) is on contract to the Netherlands Government to help organise the largest governmental conference on fighting corruption(Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity II) at the Hague 28-31 May 2001. He can be reached at |
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| Congress Party General Secretary Kamal Nath (366-H '64) was featured in a Times of India article titled "" on April 29th, 2001. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Dr. Udai Banerji (72-HB '83) ran in the on April 22nd and finished with a time of 5hrs 55ms. He wore a T-shirt that read "Most charities ask you to examine your conscience, we ask you to examine your testicles - The Cancer Research Campaign." |
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| Harinder Singh Hassanwalia (339-H '65) is working for the Royal Bank of Canada as its Deputy Chief Economist. He can be reached at |
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| Sandeep Sahai (825-KA '81) is a Managing Partner at , a company he cofounded with Arjun Malhotra (325-K '64). Sandeep can be reached at sandeep.sahai@techspan.com |
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| Captain Ranthi Dev Rao (325-K'57) has retired as Deputy Managing Director of Indian Airlines. He has settled in Hyderabad and can be reached at |
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| Gyan Seth (281-J '57) is making a music serial called Jugalbandi for which he recently filmed the two living legends Ustad Vilaya Khan and Bismillah Khan at the Taj Hotel in Banaras. This serial will be aired on Doordarshan at a later stage. Gyan can be reached at |
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Spring 2001
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| India Today just published a very interesting on how The Doon School is becoming the "template" for new schools in India and how Dehra Dun is now playing host to a whole array of new education barons. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Read the DSOBS and an article on how earthquake victims. |
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| The has been upgraded to enable better searches. You can now find Doscos by house, number, year, name, city, country or even company name. Try it now and or your contact information as well. |
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| Dr Biala and two other guides, Dr Shukla and Mr Joshi lead a Doon School team that scaled Peak Kalidhang, an unconquered peak that the army has been unable to scale in two attempts. Read the in the . |
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| The Doon School was featured in an article titled "" in the March 25th, 2001 edition of The Times of India that asked whether the old schoolboy network of Doon has been replaced by the tie that binds students of Shri Ram College of Commerce. Read the in the Press Coverage and discuss it in the "" topic of . Vote in the new Doon Online poll on the same topic as well. |
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| Prannoy (Tempest) Roy (66-J '66) was profiled in an article titled "Same time, same place, next week" in the March 25th 2001 edition of the Times of India. Read the in the . |
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| Raghav Lakhanpal (343-TA, '92) has been elected to the U.P. Assembly from the Sarsawa constituency as an M.L.A. He is currently the youngest M.L.A. in the country. He can be reached at |
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| Mr.Shomie Das the former Headmaster of The Doon School was quoted extensively in The Hindu on March 10th, 2001. Read the article " in the |
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| Virender Singh Sikand (272-T '65) passed away on February 22nd, 2001, in New Delhi after suffering from cancer for almost 4 months. He will be greatly missed by family and friends and is survived by his wife Poonam, daughter Pallavi and son Arjun (372-TB '99). Doon Online extends its condolensces to his family and friends. |
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| With the help of David MacDougall, Doon Online secured the rights from the American Anthropological Association to publish "" on Doon Online. This article describes the theoretical underpinnings behind the video "Doon School Chronicles." View the information sheet on the video and photographs from it as well. |
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| Shivindar Mohan Singh (406-JB '93) was featured in an article in the Times of India on February 2nd, 2001 titled "." Read the in the Press Coverage. |
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| Ajai Lal (119-J '67) passed away suddenly on March 13th, 2001 in New Delhi. He is survived by his wife Indu. Condolences can be sent to C-467 Defence Colony, Ground Floor, New Delhi 110024. Tel: 4622300. Doon Online extends its condolensces to his family and friends. |
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| Sanjai Verma (959-TA '82) has published a book "" which contains frequently asked questions on Income Tax and TDS. He is currently the Deputy Commissioner Of Income Tax at Bangalore and can be reached at |
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| Vijit Ramchandani (225-JA '76) passed away suddenly on February 22nd, 2001 in Minneapolis, USA. His parents, Gulab and Ratna Ramchandani had a simple memorial service for him in their garden at Udyan village Jhajra, Chakrta Road, Dehra Dun on Sunday March 11th at 4:30pm. Doon Online extends its condolensces to his family and friends. |
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| Vikram Seth (250-J '68) the critically acclaimed author was live online at Guardian Unlimited on March 2nd, 2001 to mark World Book Day. Read the transcript of his conversation. |
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| Adnan Shaikh (442-HA '00) sent four official school photographs for . View them and send us or upload your photograhs as well. |
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| Madhavrao Scindia (former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors) was featured in a New York Times article on February 22nd, 2001 about the passing away of his mother the Queen of Gwalior. Read the article in the Press Coverage. |
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| Shubho Ghosh (472-OA '93) has joined Conexant Systems in California as a Sr. Business Analyst. He also recently authored a chapter on the Wireless Industry for the book "Communication Technology Update", Focal Press, 7th. Ed.. The book is widely used for US MBA courses and is an industry standard in the telecommunications industry. He can be reached at shubhog@hotmail.com |
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| More photographs have been added to Mela Ram's Photo Gallery. These were taken on a visit in March 1999. If you have interesting school related photographs email them to photos@doononline.net You can now also upload them directly in Mela Ram's Photo Gallery with the new upload feature. |
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