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The Business Standard: August 21st, 2002 - Lunch With BS : Anuroop ‘Tony’ Singh
I’m only two minutes late but Anuroop “Tony” Singh (49) is already settled at the table with what looks like a Filofax open beside him. It isn’t actually — as I discover later — a Filofax but something much more elaborate and complicated. It is a Time-Management System devised by the American time management guru, Claus Moller.
The Economic Times: July 16th, 2002 - Orissa Ministers Wash Dirty Linen
Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is caught between his Doon school mate and energy minister A U Singh Deo and his political mentor and finance minister Rama Krushna Patnaik over the tripartite agreement to securitise the arrears and current power dues of the National Thermal Power Corporation.
The Times of India: June 2nd, 2002 - The evolution of Jyotiraditya Scindia
I was never pampered as such, growing up with clear-cut guidelines of what was ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. However, the iron rules didn’t apply to my sister, Chitrangada.
The Economic Times: May 18th, 2002 - Nikhil Nanda: The business of life
To a legacy born, but the author of his own destiny. The lap of luxury has cushioned his path but Nikhil Nanda has charted his own course.
The Hindu: April 11th, 2002- Raga meets rhythm
The Doon School student choir-orchestra put its best foot forward, while jamming with ace drummer Sivamani. A report of the concert held in the city recently.
Times of India: December 23rd, 2001- Coffee, beer, food, but he's thinking of the building
Hello darkness my old friend, come to talk with you again. Pink and blue neon, plexi-glass and steel. In the heart of Jayanagar 7th Block. The mind takes a leap to Times Square, even Piccadilly.
Times of India: December 20th, 2001- Fashion's Kingfisher
He launched the Kingfisher line and reserves glamour strictly for his clothes. Pune Times meets Manoviraj Khosla.
Outlook Magazine: December 4th, 2001- The Doon School
Doon is now chalking out a blueprint for the future with its most ambitious aim: to carve a place among the 10 best schools of the world.
The Hindu: December 2nd, 2001- Congress to field Jyotiraditya
The son of the late Congress leader, Madhavrao Scindia, will be fielded as the party candidate in the byelection to the Guna Parliamentary Constituency of his father, the Congress general secretary, Mr.Ghulam Nabi Azad, said today.
The Times of India: October 3rd, 2001- Madhavrao Scindia killed in plane crash
Senior Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia and six others were killed when the private plane in which they were travelling crashed on the outskirts of Mainpuri district Sunday afternoon. Eight bodies have been retrieved.
The Times of India: October 3rd, 2001 -Enthusiastic, on duty, suddenly gone
A car remained parked at the Scindia residence on Sunday evening. Its owner, journalist Sanjiv Sinha from The Indian Express was not coming back.
The Indian Express: September 18th, 2001 - Vajpayee terminates a century of Gandhi and Nehru
As with "the first war of the 21st century", so did the first war of the 20th century begin with an isolated act of terrorism.....
Times of India: September 10th, 2001 - Bullet Power
He’s nearly 28, says Siddhartha Lal, chief executive, Royal En-field Motors (REM), but in fact looks a couple of years younger
Times of India: August 16th, 2001 - Through the looking glass
After dressing up his women in style, Tarun Tahiliani, on the eve of the Lakme India Fashion Week starting August 6, is now getting ready to give his men a new look
Times of India: August 8th, 2001 - Notes from a fashion week victim
For the last couple of days I have been a fashion week victim. A willing one at that. Attending fashion shows, nodding knowingly when designers say 'green is the blue of India,' and pretending to know what an Emperor sleeve is.
Business Standard: August 1st, 2001 - The "hands-off, nose-in" businessman
Analjit Singh turns down nine out of ten invitations to parties. When he does socialise he prefers to do so with close friends the odd business meeting being strict and rare exceptions. Still, the 46-year-old chairman of Max India, agreed to meet me for lunch.
Times of India: June 26th, 2001 - A park to give peace a chance
"A peace park in Siachen is the best way to stop the unannounced war in the region, since the park could be maintained by the governments and both India and Pakistan could have their own sattelite surveillance systems to keep away infiltrators,"
Business Standard: June 6th, 2001 - Prawns, Lamb and Infotal
Arjun Malhotra, his people told me, had chosen the House of Ming at Taj Mahal hotel as a venue for lunch. I mentally groaned.
Times of India: June 10th, 2001 - Working Ghost
Thirty years ago, he left the world of snobbery. He left his three-piece suits, ties and dinner jackets. This squash champion also left the game he once mastered. And headed for Tilonia.
Letter from Rajiv Chopra (221-K '55) on the Raphael Ryder Chesire International Centre
At the end of the 2nd World War, when the Atomic Bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Japan by the Americans, there was a British observer on one of the planes, Group Captain Cheshire.....
Times of India: April 29th, 2001 - From Sanjay to Sonia
Seven-time MP Kamal Nath has proved his utility to the Congress several times over. Now as AICC general secretary and CWC member, he can even afford to look back at the Emergency and his role in it.
DSOBS: Hearts for Gujurat: The Earthquake Relief Initiative
Painters cannot rebuild cities; they can, however, resurrect lives. Forty one artists of repute have donated 63 paintings for a worthy cause : Gujarat’s school children.
India Today: April 23rd, 2001 - Wealth of Art - Boys do Sing
As 50 students from Dehradun's preppy Doon school presented an hour-long orchestration with Indian and western instruments at Mumbai's Nehru Centre last week....
India Today: April 23rd, 2001 - The Doon Boom
The city that houses Doon School is now playing host to a whole array of new education barons--with big money and bigger ambitions
May 12th, 2001: Bay Area Doscos Get Together
The Bay Area Doscos are having a get-together on May 12th at 10:00am. All Doscos in the area are invited with their spouses and children
The Times of India: April 8th, 2001 - Veni, Vidi, Vici
Shirin S Khan meets Varun Sharma, a Lucknow lad who is feeling on top of the world after scaling an unconquered peak. He hasn't scaled Mt Everest yet but that doesn't deter Varun Sharma, 17, from feeling on top of the world. Scaling a hitherto unconquered peak which even
The Times of India: March 25th, 2001 - Delhi's new power elite?
Has the old schoolboy network of Doon been replaced by the tie that binds students of the 70s at Shri Ram College of Commerce? Whether it is Arun Jaitley, Vijay Goel or Ranjan Bhattacharya, the new power elite of the Capital has one thing in common: the c
The Times of India: March 25th, 2001 -Same time, same place, next week
An economist, chartered accountant, psephologist and broadcaster, Prannoy Roy, the man who beams into our living rooms daily is all this and more. Rashme Sehgal ploughs her way through his trademark reticence and finds out about his foray into entertainment
April 13th, 2001: The DSOBS Delhi Chapter Get Together
The Delhi Chapter of the DSOBS is having a Get Together on April 13th, 2001. All Doscos in the area are invited with their wife/partner. View the poster.
The Hindu March 10th, 2001: India - Wired schools set to become reality
Say goodbye to homework and chalk-and-talk teaching. Welcome to the world of wired school campuses. While the virtual world space is being catered to by IT professionals who are growing in number by the day, these wired school campuses appear to be the next logical step in the real world.
"Doon School Chronicles" is an intimate study of India's most prestigious boys' boarding school. Sometimes called ‘the Eton of India,’ Doon School has nevertheless developed its own distinctive style and presents a curious mixture of privilege and egalitarianism.
If the credo of his career rings a healthy note, so does his attitude to life. It is perhaps in the fitness of things that the man is a major player in the medicine market. Yes, `health is wealth' sounds like an apt description for the business interests of Shivinder Mohan Singh, the director of Fortis Healthcare, a promoter company of the Rs 1,800 crore pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy.
The body of the dowager queen of Gwalior was borne on a palanquin of sandalwood and silver in January, past the decaying palace that had once been among the grandest in India's now- defunct princely states, to the garden where she was to be cremated.
View the poster to get details about the Cricket Tournament between Mayo, Sanawar and Doon. Attend the prize distribution at "Someplace Else" on January 28th, 2001.
Southern California's Internet companies have produced some millionaires, an ever-growing number of flameouts and some incredible bargains for consumers. But their most significant contribution to the region's economy might turn out to be a crop of entrepreneurs such as Sanjay Pandit.
It’s now Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy’s turn for global accolade after, wife and co-social activist, Aruna Roy got Ramon Magsaysay Award. The Barefoot College, Tilonia, Rajasthan, founded by Bunker Roy 29 years ago, has been conferred the German-based Nuclear-Free Future Solutions Award for 2000.
The long-awaited entry of State Bank of India, with more than 8,000 branches across the country, into the cards market could change the industry vastly. Subhash Chopra reports
Curiously unsettling, strangely sensual, the sculptor's work of this past decade creates waves in London
Post-Pokhran, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was apprising Opposition leaders about the nuclear tests. Most of them just listened, but Laloo Yadav did some rustic plaintalking.
Born: 26 February 1940 Education: Senior Cambridge, Doon School, Dehradun, 1956; BA (Hons) in History, St. Stephen's College, Delhi, 1960...Sayeed Maqbool Kidwai,
He's steering himself to a new course. And how. After a two-year stint at his father Surinder Kapur's auto-components company, the Rs 157.10-crore Sona Steering, Sunjay Kapur, 26, (right)--who is its vice-president (HRD)--is changing direction.
My father, Vittal Mallya, was born in Dhaka, then a part of undivided India, in 1924. He was the youngest of the three children born to Lt Col. Bantwal Ganapathi Mally....
With R.C. Bhargava due to retire this month, Maruti's co-owners, Suzuki and the Union Government, are in a deadlock.
The once great British public schools, founded during the Raj to produce a new generation of empire builders and their "brown sahib" heirs, are dying 50 years after India gained independence.
Doon boys are in a class of their own. India's most privileged pupils are brought down to earth by an austere regime. The crack of a cricket bat upon ball, a tree-lined field on a sunny afternoon, the bell calling languid boys to tea . . . some of the golden memories of the British public schoolboy.
Naveen Patnaik paces up and down his living room trying to explain why a man would want to make his political debut at the age of 50, particularly when he's had little or nothing to do with public life.
Old school ties forged before the subcontinent's bloody partition in 1947 have endured three wars and a persisting cold war between India and Pakistan.
India and Pakistan haven't gone to war since 1971. But they have come close on more than half a dozen occasions.
Dinesh Singh, a veteran Indian politician who served in the cabinets of three prime ministers, died here on Thursday following a prolonged illness, hospital officials said. He was 70.
The spectators cheer as the batsman drives the ball past the fielder's outstretched hands and over the boundary of the field where a school cricket match is on in this small north Indian town.
Social networks around the world are described and rated. The ratings address the network's power, level of secrecy, how well it is organized, its conviction s, its rituals, and its level of exclusivity.
Had Rajiv Gandhi's political career not been suddenly snuffed out last night, he would have reclaimed India's pride of place in world diplomacy.
This is a book for those whose interests lie in the social sciences. General readers will find a lot of it heavy going although by thumbing through they may stumble upon the right page containing vignettes of observation and description.
Started initially with enrolment in the Nursery, KG and Grade I and II, the Chandbagh school which celebrated its Third Foundation Day Dec. 18, is now upgraded to grade IV. During the second phase of extension the plans are to upgrade the school upto 10+2 which will provide hostel facilities for the lower secondary, secondary and the higher secondary levels.
Let me tell you about the latest food that has taken the jet-set by storm --- no, it isn't at any five-star hotel or fancy restaurant (that's passe, isn't it?). But `the thing' in Delhi's high society is the.....
While the British empire was in full glory, every Briton in India was a sahib, or master. An independent India, at 51 years old, still has sahibs. A select few of this elite can be found here near the foothills of the Himalayas, in the venerable Doon School for boys.