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The Doon School Weekly
''The Doon School Weekly'' (informally ''The Weekly'') is a student newspaper produced by and for the students of The Doon School. 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. The paper, distributed every Saturday morning, carries a mix of reports on school activities, trips or expeditions, opinion pieces, critique of school policies, interviews of visiting speakers, student polls, puzzles, cartoons (known as Dosco Doodle'''), and creative writing, including short stories, poetry, satire or personal essays. The alumni keep up to date with the developments at school through the newspaper, which is also published online on The Doon School, The Doon School's official website. Notable alumni in the fields of literature, journalism, politics and academia, including Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Ramachandra Guha, Karan Thapar, have been former editors of the public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to most of its articles and content. The ''Journal'' is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. As of 2023, ''The'' ''Wall Street Journal'' is the List of newspapers in the United States, largest newspaper in the United States by print circulation, with 609,650 print subscribers. It has 3.17 million digital subscribers, the second-most in the nation after ''The New York Times''. The newspaper is one of the United States' Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. The first issue of the newspaper was published on July 8, 1889. The Editorial board at The Wall Street Journal, editorial page of the ''Journal'' is typically center-right in its positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prannoy Roy
Prannoy Lal Roy (; born 15 October 1949) is an Indian economist, chartered accountant, psephologist, journalist and author. He is the former executive co-chairperson of NDTV and one of its co-founders, along with his wife Radhika Roy. Early life and education Prannoy Lal Roy was born in Calcutta, West Bengal on 15 October 1949, to P. L. "Hurricane" Roy, a Bengali executive at a multinational corporation in the city. His paternal grandfather was Paresh Lal Roy, a traffic superintendent and an amateur boxer, known as the "father of Indian boxing" for having popularised the sport in the country. Roy is the great-grandson of suffragist and social reformer Lolita Roy and grand nephew of Indra Lal Roy, the first Indian flying ace. He is also a cousin of writer Arundhati Roy. Roy attended La Martiniere Calcutta and The Doon School, the private boys' boarding school in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand). He was at the boarding school during his teenage years when he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inder Pal Khosla
Inder Pal Khosla is a retired Indian diplomat. He served as the Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Afghanistan. *Son of Shakuntala and Justice GD Khosla. *Has two daughters *Education: 1954: The Doon School BA, MA (Econ). *In 1960 joined Indian Foreign Service. *Served in Vienna (1963), Algiers, Thimphu, Dhaka and Kabul. *1974: India's representative at Bhutan. *1975-1976: Charge d'Affaires in Jeddah, (Saudi Arabia). *1976-1980: Ambassador to United Arab Emirates. *Feb 1980-Jan 1985: Jt Sec, Master of ceremonies Ministry of External Affairs (India). *Jan 1985-: High Commissioner to Dhaka Bangladesh. *-1989: High Commissioner to Canberra Australia. *1989-1990: Ambassador to Kabul Afghanistan. *1990-1992: Ambassador to Iran. *1992:Ambassador to Netherlands. *1993-Jan 1995: at Mohammad Hamid Ansari Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations The permanent representative of India to the United Nations is India's foremost diplomat, diplomatic representati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wajahat Habibullah
Wajahat Habibullah (born 30 September 1945) is the former chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities. Prior to this, he held the position of the first Chief Information Commissioner of India. He was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1968 until his retirement in August 2005. He was also Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (Local Government). Personal life Habibullah belongs to a prominent and progressive Taluqdari (Barabanki district#British (1858–1947), Saidanpur taluqa, Barabanki district) family of the United Provinces (1937–50), United Provinces. He is the son of Enaith Habibullah, General Enaith Habibullah, a former commandant of the National Defence Academy (India), NDA, Khadakwasla, and Hamida Habibullah, a parliamentarian and educationist. He was Divisional Commissioner of eight districts of the Kashmir Division in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (state), Jammu and Kashmir between 1991 and 1993, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uma Shankar Bajpai
Uma Shankar Bajpai (1921/1922, Jaipur – 6 February 2005) was an Indian diplomat and a veteran journalist. He was also the director of India International Centre. Kanti Bajpai, the Indian academic, is his son. Life and career Uma Shankar Bajpai was born in Jaipur. His father was Girija Shankar Bajpai (1891–1954), an eminent Indian civil servant, diplomat and Governor. His brother Katyayani Shankar Bajpai was also a renowned diplomat who served as the Indian envoy to Pakistan, China and the United States. Bajpai joined the Indian Foreign Service. He was posted at the Karachi Consulate, Pakistan, for some time. Bajpai's last foreign posting was as High Commissioner of Canada. He retired as the Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After his retirement from the Indian Foreign Service, he took the role as director of India International Centre. He is credited with revamping the institution. Uma Shankar Bajpai died on 6 February 2005 at the age of 83. Details *Educate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishvjit Singh
Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh (29 October 1946 - 6 August 2017) was an Indian politician with the Indian National Congress party. He is a great-grandson of Pratap Singh of Kapurthala. Biography Singh was born on 29 October 1946 at Kapurthala House, Jalandhar, to father Kanwar Ranjit Singh and Mother Kanwarani Anjana Singh of Kapurthala, and was later adopted by Kanwarani Surjit Kaur, the widow of Captain Kanwar Prithvijit Singh of Kapurthala. He studied at The Doon School, Dehra Dun (I.S.C.). He was first elected to the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of the Indian Parliament) in April 1982, representing the State of Maharashtra. He returned for a second term from April 1988 to April 1994. In 1989, he married Kanwarani Vijay Thakur Singh, who is a diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service and is currently serving at the Ministry of External Affairs, India as Secretary (East). Singh has been a delegate to several International Conferences as well as to the United Nations General Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Mani Shankar Aiyar (born 10 April 1941) is an Indian politician and former career civil servant diplomat. He is a member of the Indian National Congress Party. He represented the Mayiladuthurai constituency of Tamil Nadu in the 10th Lok Sabha, 13th Lok Sabha, and 14th Lok Sabha. He was a nominated member of parliament from Rajya Sabha. Early life and education Mani Shankar Aiyar is the son of Vaidyanatha Shankar Aiyar, a chartered accountant, and Bhagyalakshmi Shankar Aiyar. He was born in Laxmi Mansions, Lahore in British India, which as post-Partition refugee property, became house for the family of Saadat Hassan Manto. His older brother is the journalist, Swaminathan Aiyar. He lost his father at age 12 in an air crash. He attended Welham Boys' School, The Doon School and obtained B.A. in economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi. While at Doon, he was an editor of '' The Doon School Weekly''. After the loss of his father, Aiyar's mother had t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramchandra Guha
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history. He is an important authority on the history of modern India. The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha. He is the third Indian historian to be recognised by the association. Covering a wide range of subjects, Guha has produced three major books of modern India's socio-political history. Among them, '' Gandhi Before India'' (2013) and '' Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World'' (2018), are the two volumes of biography of Mahatma Gandhi, an icon of the Indian independence movement. The other being '' India After Gandhi'' (2007), an account of the history of India from 1947 to 2007, which received commercial and critical success. He was appointed to BCCI's panel of administrato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B G Verghese
Boobli George Verghese (21 June 1927 – 30 December 2014) was a senior Indian journalist. He was editor of leading newspapers the ''Hindustan Times'' (1969–75) and ''The Indian Express'' (1982–86). In 1975, he received the Ramon Magsaysay award for outstanding contribution to journalism. After 1986, he was associated with the New Delhi think-tank Centre for Policy Research. Early life Verghese attended The Doon School. He then studied Economics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and pursued a master's degree from Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Doon, Verghese edited ''The Doon School Weekly''. Career Verghese started his journalistic career in ''The Times of India''. He was information adviser to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1966-69, and wrote her speeches. Subsequently, he joined ''Hindustan Times'' as editor, but lost his post for criticising Indira Gandhi during the Emergency. His integrity in those years earned him immense respect, and he was awarded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swaminathan Aiyar
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar (born 12 October 1938) is an Indian economist, journalist, and columnist. He is consulting editor for the ''Economic Times'' and writes regularly for the ''Economic Times'' and ''The Times of India''. He is also a Research Fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the elder brother of Mani Shankar Aiyar, who is a senior Congress leader. Early life Aiyar was born to Vaidyanatha Shankar Aiyar, a chartered accountant, and Bhagyalakshmi Shankar. He is the older brother of Mani Shankar Aiyar, a politician who has served as Minister for Panchayati Raj in the Indian government. After the loss of their father in an air crash, Aiyar's mother had to negotiate with Doon to allow her sons to continue their studies with reduced fees and in return she taught at the school. An alumnus of Welham Boys' School, The Doon School, and St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, he earned a master's degree in economics from Magdalen College, Oxford. Career He is a research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a newspaper of record. Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
