Regulars

Debating Circuit

The school was represented by Akshit Batra, Chetan Aggarwal, Ashish Mitter and Uday Pratap Singh at the Rev. Samuel Slater Memorial Annual English Debates held at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla, between April 27-30. The school reached the final round after seven years. However, we lost to St. James’ School, Kolkata and were placed second. Akshit Batra was the Second Best Speaker in the final round and, in total, won three Best Speaker awards. Ashish Mitter won two Second Best Speaker awards, while Chetan Aggarwal bagged the Second Best Speaker award in the quarter-final round. Uday Pratap Singh also won a Third Best Speaker prize in the same round.
The Doon School was represented by Rijul Kochhar and Aditya Ajmani at the Frank Anthony Memorial Debates held in Marshall School on Friday, April 28. Rijul was adjudged the Best Speaker of the debate and the School was placed second. The team has qualified for the final round of the debate to be held later in the year.
Well done!

New Librarian

We welcome Pankaj Kumar Das to the community. Mr. Das has been working with the Sagar School, Alwar before this and will be our new librarian. We wish him and his family a happy stay in Doon.

Creative Credits

The following are the results of the BP Chandola English Essay Writing Contest 2006:
First: Pranay Agarwal
Second: Anindya Vasudev
The following are the results of the Kanwar Rani Tara Devi Hindi Essay Writing Contest (Seniors):
First: Vishesh Goel
Second: Chetan Aggarwal
Third: Varun Khandelwal
The results of the Smt. Mirchandani Hindi Essay Writing Contest (Juniors) are as follows:
First: Aditya Vikram Gupta
Second: Pranjal Singh
Third: Chandra Narain Deo

Flying High

Pranav Matta, Harshit Tiwari, Dhruv Babbar, Shatrunjai Diwan, Vibhav Gaur, Ishaan Khanna and Aseem Balraj Sahini represented the School in an Aeromodelling Meet held at Welham Boys’ on Sunday, March 30, and were placed third.

Hockey Hungama

In the Council’s School Hockey Tournament, the School played its semi-final match against the GRD Academy and won, 2-0. In the finals, however, we lost to the Moravian Institute 1-3.
In the Kandhari Memorial Hockey Tournament held at Welham Boys’ School, the School team played against RIMC and won, 1-0. They lost to YPS Patiala, 2-5 and were defeated by St. George’s School, 0-2.
In the Oak Grove Tournament, the School Team drew against Wynberg Allen, 2-2 and lost to the Oak Grove ‘A’ team, 1-3.
Congratulations to the School team on a commendable performance!

Shuttling Success

Following are the results of the Inter-House Badmintom Tournament 2006:

House Positions
First: Oberoi
Second: Tata
Third: Hyderabad
Fourth: Jaipur
Fifth: Kashmir
 

Unquotable Quotes

I’ll cut your mind-flowing limit.
Aadhar Sharma, the violent intellectual.
Shut the lights on.
Vinayak Paliwal, confused as always.
I’ll make you into a two-cut fungus.
Yash Agarwal, the butcher.
I like cakeless eggs.
Angad Singh mixes it all up.
Don’t stain it. Let the water remain white.
NRK wants it clean.
The flu bird is killing people.
AKM identifies a deadly species.

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the race. An amazing effort by each and every one of the junior squad members highlighted their performance. The senior squad, led by Akash Maheshwari and marked by our very own School Captain, Avyay Jhunjhunwala, also put up a spellbinding display. The Kashmir House boys ‘sprinted’ on to the field with much excitement and the second they began their table, everyone knew that they were, potentially, contenders for the Gong. And, as Kashmir House left the field, they had certainly left an impression on the minds of the judges. Even though there are a few among us who find PT to be the most detestable and abhorrent activity in School, we can’t deny the fact that it is an integral part of the School’s traditions (although one can’t say for certain how long it will continue to survive). Both, the Chief Guest for the evening, Headmaster, Dr. Kanti Bajpai and School PT leader Shilavadra Bhattacharjee, felt that there is a need to uphold this tradition. When it was announced that the young Warriors had won the Junior Cup the Tata House squads erupted in huge outbreaks of elation and joy. The crowd fell silent once again. The announcer continued, “In the senior category: fifth…fourth…third…second…” and once again Tata House revelled in their success as the Senior Cup too, was won by them. PMV and PKJ, Housemasters of the victorious House exclaimed, “Honour regained! The Gong returns!” Of the other Houses some rejoiced, and some didn’t; but, at the end of the day, we were all part of this magnificent event, which, in itself, means a lot. Pranay Shah very aptly told our reporters, “Even though PT is one of the events we Doscos like the least, most of us do actually end up making an effort to win the competition.”