REGULARS

IAYP Awards

The following boys have successfully completed the IAYP award:

Well done!

Chess Masters

In the Inter-School Junior and Senior Chess Tournament 2006, held at Ann Mary School, Uday Sriram was the runner-up in the Junior section. Pulkit Baheti reached the semi-finals in the senior section.
Congratulations!

Starry-Eyed

The Doon School Astronomy Society has now been registered in www.skytonight.com as a member club pursuing astronomy as a special interest in Dehradun.

Bend It

In the Council Schools’ Soccer Tournament, the school team lost to Welham Boys School in the quarter-final stage of the tournament, after the match had gone into extra-time.

Chucks 2006

The following were the positions in the various rounds of the Annual Chuckerbutty Memorial Debates 2006:

Preliminary Round (Pool A):

Best Speaker: Kaushik Iyer
Qualifying Schools: Modern High, Dubai and Mayo College, Ajmer.

Preliminary Round (Pool B):

Best Speakers: Shikhar Singh and Arjun Rajkhowa
Qualifying Schools: The Doon School and La Martiniere Boys’, Kolkata.

Semi-final Round:

Best Speakers: Shrivats Iyer (JAM), Shikhar Singh (Turncoat) and Rushil Gambhir (Face-off).
Qualifying Schools: The Doon School and Modern High, Dubai.

Final Round:

Best Speaker: Ashish Mitter
Winning Team: Modern High, Dubai.

The Red Cross Heroes

In the St. John’s First-Aid Examination 2006, the following boys have cleared the exam:

In-House Hindi Debate

In the Inter-House Hindi Debates 2006, the following are the results:
Best Speaker: Vishesh Goel
Best Interjector: Saurabh Tewari
House Positions
1st: Oberoi House
2nd: Hyderabad House
3rd: Jaipur House
4th: Kashmir House
5th: Tata House
Congratulations!

Eureka!

The following are the results of the Dipankar Sen Individual Science Quiz 2006:

Congratulations!

Errata

In the Council Schools’ Swimming Tournament held last week, Arjun Gulati, Vivan Rai and Apoorva Joshi won silver medals in their respective categories. The Weekly apologises for not having reported this earlier.
 

Tiger Talk

Avanindra Singh reports on the presentation by Bittu Sehgal

When we D formers were told to be ready in our outing clothes for a visit to Scholars’ Home to hear a talk by the famous wildlife expert, Mr. Bittu Sehgal, on September 11, our first reaction was excitement at missing classes.
However, once we reached our destination and saw the number of students from schools all over Dehradun, and the big hall with students handing out posters and ‘Project Tiger’ cards, we began to appreciate the reason for our being there.
Mr. Bittu Sehgal held our attention from the moment he began speaking and presenting a slide-show to drive home his points. To our shock, we learnt that there are no tigers left in the Sariska Sanctuary, which was, till recently, a ‘Project Tiger’ reserve. We saw pictures of people in Tibet wearing cloaks made of tiger skin. We were told that almost half of India’s tiger population is draped on peoples’ shoulders. We saw pictures of the trap set by poachers and were told about how a tiger will be in agony and bite its own paw off to get free.
Tigers need peace; they need a quiet, green environment. But our sanctuaries have one animal that is the greatest danger to the tiger. Can you guess the name of that animal? The answer is: Man.
Mr. Sehgal gave us fascinating glimpses into the life of India’s national animal. We learnt how tigresses rear their cubs, teach them to hunt and how, when they are over a year old, they leave their mother. They are brought up in such a way that there is no in-breeding, and no weak babies survive. Truly, it is an amazing creature. Even its stripes are a gift of nature, so that it can blend into the tall grass to escape the hunter’s eagle eye. Where the tiger lives, there is water. That is why it is called paani ka devta. What really impressed me was how Mr. Bittu Sehgal made us feel that the safety of the tiger is in our hands.
We can start an ‘adult literacy programme’ – to teach grown-ups how to save the tiger. It is up to us to make people aware of the danger the tiger is in and it is up to us to act: now, today. There is no time to be lost.
We returned to school, with plenty to think about. We are really grateful to AKC, who organized this amazing learning experience for us.

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