In contrast, Doon's decision to expel a ward of Chief Minister Nityanand Swami of Uttarakhand in 2000 led to allegations of threats to disrupt power and water supplies; the difficulty was overcome by the prime minister's intervention. Mr. Jai Singh Gill . Singh) and Swaminathan Aiyar (brother of “neech” Mani Shankar Aiyar). His children include Yuvraj Raninder Singh and Jai Inder Kaur. In 1985 he nominated Sharif as Chief Minister of the Punjab, and Sharif went on to become Prime Minister of Pakistan. Even though Nath — who was in Hyderabad House — was not in the same hostel as Sanjay , their friendship is legendary and, in fact, is what brought Nath into the Congress. Pupils are known as "Doscos", a contraction of "Doon" and "school". Old boys of The Doon School are popularly known as Doscos, although the more correct term is ex-Doscos since within Doon itself current pupils are known as Doscos, and alumni are referred to as ex-Doscos or, more simply, as Old Boys.The term Dosco is a contraction of Doon and School.. The 3rd edition of Chandigarh Alumni Golf Invitational Tournament , featuring the alumni of leading all- boys boarding schools of the country, concluded with the same camaradrie at Chandigarh Golf Club on Friday . [3][4], Doon remains a boys-only school despite continued pressure from political leaders to become coeducational. The programme is open for all aspiring girls and boys in grades 9-12 who are passionate about making a positive impact on the world around them. Mr. Navin B Chawla ... Ex-Chief Election Commissioner of India. 3. These Doon ‘old boys’ had their own dictionary — nicknames like Nath’s ‘Roly’, and unique slang — which became the vernacular in many a Lutyens’ drawing room. Member, Planning Commission of India. Dear Naveen, Amarinder and Kamal Nath Season’s greetings boys and my best wishes to Kamal Nath on becoming the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh! After all, the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had studied there. ThePrint has the finest young reporters, columnists and editors working for it. Or the friendly banter between Purie and Rajiv when they came together for a batch photo on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the school in 1985. Other contemporary Doscos who rose to prominence in politics included Akbar Ahmad, ex-MP from Uttar Pradesh, and Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh from Punjab. Or take authors like Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth and historian Ramachandra Guha — all of whom passed out just a few years apart in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Pic: The Doon School. The old boys of Doon are known as Doscos, and the alumni body is represented by The Doon School Old Boys' … Along with a lot of fun and games, there was a serious touch to it as well with renowned old students like Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, Sunil Munjal and present headmaster Kanti Bajpai making speeches. Also read: Rahul Gandhi’s dream team is made of old people. ಕಮಲ್ ನಾಥ್ 'ಡೂನ್ ಸ್ಕೂಲ್' ನ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿದ್� Pupils. Admission to the school is based on a competitive entrance examination and an interview. Amarinder Singh, who led a Congress landslide in the 2017 Punjab elections and became chief minister." The Doon School Model United Nations (DSMUN) is an annual Model United Nations conference run by The Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, India.Founded in 2007, it is one of India's largest MUNs in terms of number of delegates and committees. The Doon School is a boys-only academically selective boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das The school's first headmaster was Arthur E. Foot, who had spent some nine years as a science master at Eton College, England. Besides Nath, who was close to Sanjay, former union minister and another Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar hailed from the 1957 batch, while former defence minister Arun Singh, who served in Rajiv’s cabinet, was from the 1959 batch. Rahul Gandhi is the only Doon School alumni from Congress, who despite being a Lok Sabha member, is not a minister. Nov 13 KBCliv. Since its foundation, the school has had a disproportionate impact on India and has produced many distinguished alumni in all walks of life, including Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, many chief ministers of Indian states, ambassadors and luminaries in the world of arts and letters such as sculptor Anish Kapoor and authors Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Ramachandra Guha. Justice (Retd) Mehtab Singh Gill. Under her visionary and dynamic leadership, the Doon International School, Dehradun which she founded in 1993, has been ranked the number 1. Sustaining journalism of this quality needs smart and thinking people like you to pay for it. It was the definitive anniversary cum reunion. Pupils. अगली खबर. One of the Doscos had won the ultimate trophy: the Prime Minister’s throne. L'admission à l'école est basée sur un concours d'entrée et un entretien [1], [2], [3].Doon a toujours été classée comme le meilleur internat en Inde par The Times of India [4 Paakhand aims to spread awareness about female foeticide and sex determination which is being practiced in many parts of India. Today, the ruling party features a handful of prominent leaders with the Dosco tag, such as former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje’s son and Jhalawar MP Dushyant Singh (1991 batch), Saharanpur MP Raghav Lakhanpal, as well as Uttar Pradesh MLA Bharatendra Singh. C. Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. Ruhi Tewari-19 December, 2018. Call @+91-135-2526400 for more details. Several senior BJP leaders have now chosen to send their children to the elite school, such as Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharamendra Pradhan, junior Home Minister Kiren Rijiju, as well as the party’s chief strategist in the Northeast and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Although Doon School has defined the country’s political elite for aeons, this is the first time that three alumni are CMs simultaneously. In your summary you forgot to mention one of the the most illustrious journalists – Inderjit Badhwar. [6][7] Although the total number of Doscos is relatively small (estimated at 5,000 since the school was founded in 1935), they include some of India's prominent politicians, artists, writers, social activists and businesspeople. A. Kamal Nath. Listed below are a selection of Doscos who have lead major enterprises, primarily in India: Armed Forces. It was established in 1936, a year after the school's founding, by the first headmaster Arthur Foot.The Weekly is the oldest and flagship publication of the school, and the newspaper's constitution grants it editorial independence. […] The role of its graduates in the professions, the military, the visual and print media, and the arts has been less pronounced but is still considerable. No sooner did I do that than Rajiv quipped: ‘See, I have the press at my feet’. The founders foresaw a school modelled on the British public school, but alive to Indian ambitions and desires. Patnaik, now a multiple-term CM, is from the 1963 batch, while Captain Amarinder was a batchmate of Arun Singh. Captain Amarinder Singh (born 11 March 1942) is an Indian politician, who is currently the 26th Chief Minister of Punjab. +91-(0)135-2526516 Email: summer.doon@doonschool.com T: +91 (0)135 2526400 E:summer.doon@doonschool.com. With ex-Dosco Aroon Purie then the editor of India Today, the Dosco joke went: “Rajiv and Aroon run India today, haw, haw, haw!”. There were forty three schools, six countries and over four hundred delegates produced great debate. A. Kamal Nath. Since its foundation, the school has produced many distinguished alumni in all walks of life, including Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, many chief ministers of Indian states, ambassadors and luminaries in the world of arts and letters such as sculptor Anish Kapoor and authors Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Ramachandra Guha. Journalists, civil servants, diplomats, royal family heirs and business family descendants also formed a part of the close-knit and select circuit. Bangalore, 23 March 2019 – The Doon School, India’s pre-eminent boarding school has announced its sixth residential ‘Summer @ Doon Leadership Programme’ from 21st May to 3rd June, 2019. C. Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. And now we know that Doon School, like Harrow, has produced not only cabinet ministers and chief ministers, but also men of letters, notably Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh. Rahul’s father, Rajiv Gandhi, remains the only prime minister to have attended Doon, and in a way, along with his brother Sanjay, brought this elite network of ‘Doscos’ into vogue in politics, the media and other spheres in the 1970s and 1980s. कमेंट देखें. In a first, 3 Doon alumni are CMs, all from the same powerful era Kamal Nath, Amarinder Singh and Naveen Patnaik | ThePrint.in Doon School students continue to dominate India’s politics as Kamal Nath joins contemporaries Naveen Patnaik and Captain Amarinder Singh as chief ministers. NDA में मान मनौवल के बीज RJD का दावा, नए साल में रामविलास तोड़ेंगे गठबंधन. Prominent graduates from The Doon School include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. But it was Rajiv and Sanjay — both of whom passed through Doon in the 1950s and early 60s — who made the ‘Dosco politician’ and the elite clique fashionable. The award was presented to the Chairman of the school, Mr. D.S Mann by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat at a glittering ceremony at hotel Sarovar Portico today. Ques : Which of these chief ministers is not an alumnus of the Doon School, Dehradun? Four MPs-- R P N Singh, Jitin Prasad, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kamal Nath-- all alumni of the Doon school, have been included in the Council of Ministers. [8], Note: The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category, Rajiv Gandhi, 6th Prime Minister of India (Class of '62), Rahul Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress (Class of '87), Jyotiraditya Scindia, Member of Parliament (Class of '89), Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab (Class of '60), Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha (Class of '64), Sunil Kant Munjal, Managing Director of Hero MotoCorp (Class of '73), Siddhartha Lal, CEO and MD of Eicher Motors (Class of '91), Sharan Pasricha, founder of Ennismore Hospitality, The Hoxton and Gleneagles (Class of '96), Aroon Purie, editor-in-chief of India Today (Class of '67), Vikram Chandra CEO of NDTV (Class of '85), Prannoy Roy, founder of NDTV (Class of '64), Rajiv Makhni, Technology journalist (Class of '84), Rakesh Wahi, founder of CNBC Africa (Class of '75), Ramachandra Guha, Historian and non-fiction writer (Class of '73), Ghulam Jilani Khan, founder of Chand Bagh School and former Defence Secretary of Pakistan (Class of '43), Kanti Bajpai, international affairs researcher and professor at National University of Singapore (Class of '72), Sandeep Khosla, fashion designer (Class of '81), Rohit Khosla, founder of Ensemble, fashion designer (Class of '76), Ashvin Kumar, film director (Class of '91), Tarun Tahiliani, fashion designer (Class of '80), Bunker Roy, Squash champion and founder of Barefoot College, (Class of '62), Nandu Jayal, Mountaineer and founder principal of Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (Class of '42), Abhinav Bindra, Olympic shooter champion (Class of 2000). 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B. Naveen Patnaik. 2. Google his name to find out about his achievenents. The alumni of this school have contributed to the political, economic and social life of the country. Since its foundation, the school has has produced many distinguished alumni in all walks of life, including Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, many chief ministers of Indian states, ambassadors and luminaries in the world of arts and letters such as sculptor Anish Kapoor and authors Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Ramachandra Guha. “Dosco,” the short form for “Doon School Boys,” was both the proud moniker and status symbol that denoted the worst (or best) of colonial British class … Also read: Dear troubled liberal, don’t fear the Congress party. Doscos a few batches apart took over as the face of the young, English-speaking cream of Indian politics. Ques : Which of these chief ministers is not an alumnus of the Doon School, Dehradun? Is Indian politics is All in Doon’s family? “On that occasion there was a photo opportunity for the class of ’60 with Rajiv. Since its foundation, the school has has produced many distinguished alumni in all walks of life, including Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, many chief ministers of Indian states, ambassadors and luminaries in the world of arts and letters such as sculptor Anish Kapoor and authors Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Ramachandra Guha. List of famous alumni from The Doon School, with photos when available. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. The popular alumni of the school include former PM Rajiv Gandhi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, actor Ali Fazal, Chandrachur Singh, historian Ramachandra Guha and economist Swaminathan Aiyar. The year 2010 was an extraordinary one for an extraordinary school: the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Doon School. Social Aesthetics and The Doon School [11/05] Social Landscapes ... among its alumni former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, several cabinet ministers, a long list of members of parliament, and major business leaders. Interestingly, Sanjay Gandhi’s son Varun, the BJP MP from Sultanpur, did not attend Doon — his mother and current union minister Maneka Gandhi sent him to schools like Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh, and The British School in New Delhi. For instance, at least four of the five ministers, Singh, Sibal, Khursheed and Pilot , are from distinguished families which would have given them a head start in a political career in any case. Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal also has another Dosco among its leaders — Bolangir MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, whom his batchmates knew as ‘Kally’. She was conferred with the award for ‘Distinguished Services in the field of Education’ by Honourable Chief Minister of New Delhi, Mrs. Sheila Dixit in the year 2001. La Doon School est une école pour garçons située à Dehradun dans le Uttarakhand, en Inde, fondée en 1935.Doon est un pensionnat accueillant environ 500 élèves âgés de treize à dix-huit ans. His Excellency, The Governor of Punjab and Chief Administrator of Chandigarh, Shri V.P. Designation . Mr. Rana Gurvirender Singh Talwar. Ghosh and Guha were together in Hyderabad House. Other famous and familiar alumni of Doon School include Tarun Tahiliani, Rohit Khosla, Vijay Prashad, Vikram Chandra (of NDTV notoriety), Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, B.G. Aiyar and Amarinder Singh — two batches apart — were in Tata House. कमेंट देखें. The passion for their school keeps the alumni associations alive. ನವದೆಹಲಿ: ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಹಿರಿಯ ನಾಯಕ ಕಮಲ್ ನಾಥ್ ಮಧ್ಯಪ್ರದೇಶದ 18ನೇ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಯಾಗಿ ಅಧಿಕಾರ ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. Since its foundation, the school has has produced many distinguished alumni in all walks of life, including Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, many chief ministers of Indian states, ambassadors and luminaries in the world of arts and letters such as sculptor Anish Kapoor and authors Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Ramachandra Guha. But it wasn’t just politicians. Ques : Which of these chief ministers is not an alumnus of the Doon School, Dehradun? Both Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi were in Kashmir House, as was Patnaik. Important Dates at a Glance - Spring Term 2021 Scholarship Form (FY 2021-22) - … This list of distinguished The Doon School alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended The Doon School are at the top of the list. Notable alumni include former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Congress leaders Madhavrao Scindia, Mani Shankar Aiyar and Kamal Nath, politician (and son of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi) Rahul Gandhi, Hero Group’s Sunil Munjal. Topic: Doon school. And the class of ’60 guffawed,” wrote Purie, adding that he and Rajiv were batchmates but never friends in school. The Doon School is a boys-only academically selective boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das[1] The school's first headmaster was Arthur E. Foot, who had spent some nine years as a science master at Eton College, England. 5. Call @+91-135-2526400 for more details. I was on the edge of the frame and the photographer unable to fit me in asked me to come to the centre and kneel in front of Rajiv. Member of the 14th State Legislative Assembly, Pakistan's Ambassador to nineteen countries, This page was last edited on 6 January 2021, at 07:21. Captain Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha on an Indian National Congress ticket in 1980. List of famous alumni from The Doon School, with photos when available. The British really wanted to know. 4. 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