scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicDoon school

Topic: Doon school

At elite Doon summit, old boys grapple with ‘egalitarianism’ and ‘aristocracy of service’

DOSCOs like Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, FSSAI CEO Rajit Punhani, and Goldman Sachs chairman of global banking Raghav Maliah gathered at the first Doon School Old Boys’ Society summit.

Amid rising India-Pakistan tensions, Dehradun’s Doon & Welham schools allow students to return home

While the schools will continue to function, concerned parents are allowed to take their children home. The decision was taken after multiple requests from the students’ kin.

Why Doon School’s all-male ex-students are not on board with administration’s co-ed pitch

The school administration’s proposal, citing concerns over toxic masculinity & evolving societal norms, is under consideration, but ex-students worry it will shift the ‘cultural environment’.

Doon to Mayo College and Sanawar—legacy boarding schools losing hold over new Indian elite

The explosion of conveniently located international schools is pushing the old boarding schools to adapt, such as by offering the Cambridge curriculum.

In a first, 3 Doon alumni are CMs, all from the same powerful era

Doon School students continue to dominate India’s politics as Kamal Nath joins contemporaries Naveen Patnaik and Captain Amarinder Singh as chief ministers.

Kamal Nath, Doon alum & Sanjay Gandhi’s friend, faces his biggest test as MP CM

Kamal Nath, a nine-time Parliamentarian, has spent a considerable amount of time in Delhi and has little pan-state appeal in Madhya Pradesh.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.