List of The Doon School alumni
Name Class year Notability
Swaminathan Aiyar 1960 Editor of Financial Express , The Times of India , correspondent for The Economist
Inderjit Bhadwar 1969 Executive editor of India Today
Vikramaditya Chandra 1985 CEO , NDTV
Suman Dubey 1980 Editor-in-chief of Indian Express , Editor of India Today
Prem Shankar Jha 1965 Editor of Hindustan Times , The Economic Times and The Financial Express
Bhaskar Menon 1972 President , EMI
Rakesh Wahi 1975 Founder , CNBC Africa , Forbes Africa
Peter Mukerjea , known as Prathim Mukherjee while in school 1971 Former CEO , STAR TV , India & Co-Founder INX MEDIA which constituted of various known entities such as NewsX , 9X , 9XM Television Channels
Aroon Purie 1960 Founder of the India Today Group
Prannoy Roy 1964 Founder of NDTV
Tejeshwar Singh 1965 Publisher and Newscaster
Karan Thapar 1971 Broadcaster , Journalist - CNBC & CNN-IBN
B G Verghese 1958 Editor of the Times of India , Magsaysay Award winner
Govind Dhar 1997 Executive Editor of the Robb Report India
Journalism
Aroon Purie , editor-in-chief of India Today ( Class of '67 ) Vikram Chandra CEO of NDTV ( Class of '85 ) Karan Thapar , Journalist ( Class of '71 ) Prannoy Roy , founder of NDTV ( Class of '64 ) Rajiv Makhni , Technology journalist ( Class of '84 )
The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a boys-only private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das, a Calcutta lawyer. The founders foresaw a school modelled on the British public school, but alive to Indian ambitions and desires. The school's first headmaster, Englishman Arthur E. Foot, had spent some nine years as science master at Eton College, England, and returned to England soon after India's independence. Admission in the school is based on a competitive examination and an interview. Every year in January and April, the school admits pupils aged 13 in Grade 7 (known as D-form) and aged 14 in Grade 8 (C-form) respectively. Doon remains a boys-only school despite continued pressure from political leaders, including the then President Pratibha Patil in 2010, to become coeducational. However, girl students are admitted in case they are wards of staff working at the school (see entries for sculptor Latika Katt and the actress Himani Shivpuri). Old boys of Doon are commonly known as Doscos. 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, government officials, artists and business leaders. Note: The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category