Listed below are a selection of Doscos who have lead major enterprises, primarily in India: Armed Forces. Living together 24×7 in the boarding school, their interactions were plenty, and the anecdotes of those who went on to become famous have turned into somewhat of a legend in the school. One of the Doscos had won the ultimate trophy: the Prime Minister’s throne. Ex-CEO Standard Chartered Bank. And his fellow Doscos never had it so good before then or since his dramatic collapse in the 1989 elections. 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Also read: Dear troubled liberal, don’t fear the Congress party. 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. He attended the Welham Boys' School and Lawrence School Sanawar [3] and The Doon School, [4] Dehradun. 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. [2] The old boys of Doon are known as Doscos, and the alumni body is represented by The Doon School Old Boys' Society. 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.. 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. We have all heard of Doon but I see the true worth of the school, in the presence of such a large number of alumni here today and in the commitment with which Doon Alumni of all ages, serve their alma mater. The Doon School Yearbook 2010. The Doon School Weekly (informally Weekly) is a student newspaper produced by and for the students of The Doon School. The British really wanted to know. Amarinder Singh, who led a Congress landslide in the 2017 Punjab elections and became chief minister." Nath is the second Doon School alumnus to be appointed as a state chief by Rahul in two years, the first being Capt. 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. कमेंट देखें. To be sure, there were political figures like veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, former union minister Dinesh Singh, Murtaza Ali Khan from Uttar Pradesh and Piloo Modi — one of the founding members of the Swatantra Party — who attended Doon school in the 1940s and entered the political arena much before the Gandhi brothers. 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. Under her visionary and dynamic leadership, the Doon International School, Dehradun which she founded in 1993, has been ranked the number 1. In contrast, Doon's decision to expel a ward of Chief Minister Nityanand Swami of Uttarkhand in 2000 led to allegations of threats to disrupt power and water supplies; the difficulty was overcome by the prime minister's intervention. Patnaik, now a multiple-term CM, is from the 1963 batch, while Captain Amarinder was a batchmate of Arun Singh. 63,94,068 Confirmed; 99,773 Deaths; Full coverage. His children include Yuvraj Raninder Singh and Jai Inder Kaur. [102] Social work, known formally as "Socially Useful Productive Work", is also part of school life. 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. Doscos a few batches apart took over as the face of the young, English-speaking cream of Indian politics. 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CBSE School in the state of Uttarakhand. ನವದೆಹಲಿ: ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಹಿರಿಯ ನಾಯಕ ಕಮಲ್ ನಾಥ್ ಮಧ್ಯಪ್ರದೇಶದ 18ನೇ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಯಾಗಿ ಅಧಿಕಾರ ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. List of famous alumni from The Doon School, with photos when available. | India News - Times of India", "Sunil Munjal: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek", "Healer of the well-heeled - Business Today - Business News", "Gautam Thapar taking Avantha group to greater heights - Economic Times", "The Hindu Business Line : L.M. 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. 6. Most of the political class that studied in Doon belonged and continues to belong to the Congress party — which, in a way, is also a reflection of the party’s more urban, aristocratic culture. 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