REGULARS

The following appointments have been made in the Hindi Department for the year 2006:
Chief Editor, Srijan Prayas: Vishesh Goel
Chief Editor, Yuv Arpan: Vansh Bhatia
Boys-in-Charge, Bharat Vani: Amritesh Rai and Rituraj
Boys-in-Charge, Yuv Bharti: Aruj Shukla and Pranjal Singh
Boy-in-Charge, Hindi Dramatics: Alok Arora

Basketball: All Stars

The School Basketball Team won the Council Schools’ Basketball Tournament by defeating R.R.R. Academy by a score of 76–51 in the finals. It is worth mentioning that this year’s team has enjoyed a hundred percent success rate, as it has not lost a single competitive match.

Bunticks and Banking

Adil Boparai and Shubham Gupta have been appointed Boys-in-Charge of the Tuckshop and Boys’ Bank for the year 2006.

Welcome

The school community welcomes Mr. Rob McGuiness, Director of International Programmes for Appleby College, Canada. We wish him a pleasant stay on campus.
 

Historically Correct

The following are the winning entries of this year’s Historical Circle Essay Contest:
1st Position: Chetan Aggarwal
2nd Position: Pradyot Shahi
Congratulations!
 

Athletes Recognized

Nikhil Sharma, Nikhil Bector, Sahil Batta and Pinaki Misra were awarded School Athletics Full Colours while Chirag Hirawat, Syed Zain Ali and Nishant Ohri were awarded Half Colours. Well done!
 

Boxing Excellence

Prashant Negi and Jehangir Chinoy were awarded School Boxing Full Colours. Agrim Joshi and Pushparaj Deshpande were reawarded Half Colours while K.B. Ponappa and Raghav Khanna were awarded Half Colours for the first time.

Unquotable Quotes

There is no wet on my hands.
Rohanjit Choudhry protests.

Aren’t Fluoro Chloro Carbons CFC’s?
Uday Pratap Singh getting his EVE wrong.

Why is your shirt tucked out?
A very confused Indresh Pathak.

Start timing from the beginning of the seventeenth minute.
Adhaar Sharma is brainy indeed!

Do you have any self-respect for yourself?
Vishesh Goel chastises.
 

You are oxidising agents and I will reduce you.
BLA reaching critical temperatures.
 

You’ll fail crossy.
Jaspreet Singh warns.

School is almost over.
Suryajit Singh, what a surprise.

Why you broke my spectacles?
Prateek Jakhar twists his angry tongue.

You have improved from when you first spoke to when you second spoke.
Thus spake NRK.

Mirage
Rishiraj Neog

I walked around in the desert sand,
Bathing in the scorching sun;
Like in a reverie,
I was captured by the embrace
Of my subconsciousness.
As I passed by the bits
And pieces of life that were scattered around,
Like in a cloud burst of misery,
I felt that I, in the devastating calm,
Was the lone survivor of a
global crusade.
But then, on the far horizon,
There was a seemly city in its utmost years:
The lake beside which seemed resurrected
With blooming life and the sense of
Dissolving strife.
Captivated by the anxiety of probing
A new land,
A new culture,
And new people who make life worth living,
I cruised ahead to destiny’s call
With faith, which just a while ago
Seemed blank and dull.
But with every step I took,
The city perished fathom by fathom:
The lake dried and the people
Cried with fear, pain
And revived agony.
I realised that the solace of my life
Had been frozen down to a period,
Where Now is unexplained,
And Then is undesired.
Now every step of mine
Is a mistake, a threat
To myself and those innocent lives:
For this indifference, this pain,
And misery subdued by the fake elixir,
Is just a Mirage!