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Laudable Effort

The Doon School was represented by Kushagra Kumar, Aditya Ajmani, Rijul Kochhar and Shilavadhra Bhattacharjee at the IIPM Debate held in New Delhi. Aditya Ajmani was adjudged the Best Speaker in the first round of the debate and was among the top thirty in the country to qualify for the final round. At the same event, Kushagra Kumar took part in a Creative Writing Competition and was placed third.
Well done!

Basketball Brief

In the Golden Jubilee Basketball Tournament hosted in Welham Boys’ School, the School played again. The School lost in the first round to Sri Ram School, 42-43, and won against Blue Bells School, 45-17. In the quarter finals, we played The Kirpal Sagar Academy and won convincingly, 50-31. In the semi-finals, our match was against Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, where we lost, 62-39. Congratulations to our team on a well played tournament!

Unquotable Quotes

You are one times my size.
Sachin Batra being pummelled by his equal.
I’m the senior-most violinist player.
Vansh Bhatia, the maestro.
Right Now, Right Now.
Vinayak Paliwal borrows a tune from Bluffmaster.
Have you seen ‘Courage the Cowardy Dog’?
Vinayak Paliwal strikes again.
She is posting you.
Saksham Sinha effectively ‘machising’.
I went a surgery.
Sahil Jain, terribly injured.
No, that is wrong. He undergone a surgery.
Pratham Mittal attempts to correct his friend.
Which class did you have after this?
Yash Agarwal, back to the future
 

Career Call

The Careers’ Notice Board will focus on fashion design and career opportunities in related fields this week. All boys keen on fashion should check it out.

Baski Bonanza

Mansher Dhillon rewinds to the XVIth Afzal Khan Basketball Tournament, held from April 8 to 12
Everything was new about the Afzal Khan Basketball Tournament this year. New baski courts and even a new school team, The New Public School…OK! OK! I am getting a bit carried away.
The Doon School team (of which eight were A formers) had a lot to live up to from the last team’s performance which went unbeaten and who won every tournament they entered.
Surprisingly, our new team more than just lived up to our expectations by winning their first four matches comfortably. Chirag’s dribbling and passing, Eeshan’s jump-balls and Pranav Kapoor’s three-point shots made the Doon’s army’s adrenaline surge. Our team was young, but had this aura of invincibility about them, making it impossible to ignore their determination.

The BKSP semi-final match was a very close and nerve-racking encounter for us Doscos. Needless to say, the grit and fighting spirit displayed by our team was such stuff that heroes are made of. The jaws of defeat found us hard to chew, for we grabbed victory in the end and did it in style, with the last minute seeing us score six points.
Our stomachs, which were tied in knots finally let loose. Getting to the finals was as rewarding to us as being in the finals.
In the finals, we faced the New Public School team, whom we knew would be daunting adversaries and tough to beat. We played hard, they played hard, they won, but we won the hearts of those around us. In the end, the team members were consoled with the award of ‘Most Promising Player of the Tournament’ going to Rishabh Bir Singh. The team left the courts knowing they had more matches to play, skills to hone, and more tournaments to win.