List of Doon School alumni (Doscos)

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Alumni of the Doon School, who are also known as Doscos, include some of India's most prominent business leaders and innovators. Listed below are a selection of Doscos who have lead major enterprises, primarily in India:

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[edit] Armed Forces

[edit] Indian Air Force

[edit] Aerospace and Airlines

[edit] Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

[edit] Finance and Banking

[edit] Manufacturing

[edit] Politicians

[edit] India

[edit] Cabinet Ministers in India

[edit] Members of Parliament in India

[edit] Chief Ministers of India

[edit] Other Indian government officials

  • Uma Shankar Bajpai, Secretary of External Affairs
  • Maheshwar Dayal, Secretary of Energy
  • Ashok Gokhale, Secretary of External Affairs
  • Vinod Kumar Grover, Secretary of External Affairs
  • Dalip Mehta, Secretary of External Affairs
  • KP Sankara Menon, Secretary of External Affairs
  • Ramachandra D Sathe, Secretary of External Affairs
  • Noel Swaranjit Sen, Director-General of Police, Andhra Pradesh
  • PP Sharma, Former Chief Secretary, Jharkhand

[edit] Members of Legislative Assemblies in India

  • Anang Uday Singh Deo, Orissa State Minister for Steel & Tourism
  • Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon, Punjab State Cabinet Minister for Food and Civil Supplies; former Minister for Excise and Taxation
  • Manpreet Singh Badal, Punjab State Cabinet Minister for Finance

[edit] Pakistan

[edit] Tea

  • Narendar Nath Atal, Chairman Makum Tea
  • SK Mehera, President Tata Tea

[edit] Tobacco

  • AN Haksar, Chairman ITC Ltd.
  • Zia Shaffi Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tobacco

[edit] TV and entertainment

[edit] Poets & Novelists

  • Aamir Ali (Conflict, Via Geneva etc.)
  • Vimal Bhagat (Stage Whispers)
  • Pushpinder Singh Chopra (Touching the Sky etc.)
  • Amitav Ghosh
  • Aminuddin Khan (A Shift in the Wind)
  • Saurabh Saklani (What Teens Need but Can't Quite Say)
  • Samit Sawhny (All the World's a Spittoon)
  • Aftab Seth (Pillars of a Landscape)

[edit] Historians, Essayists & Academic Writers

  • Mani Shankar Aiyar
  • Kanti Bajpai
  • PM Das (Storms and Sunsets in the Himalaya)
  • Jagjit Singh Dulat (Partners in Victory)
  • Siddharth Dube (In the Land of Poverty; Sex, Lies and Aids)
  • Ramchandra Guha
  • Rohit Kumar Handa (Policy for India's Defense; Comrade Sahib)
  • Prem Shankar Jha (The Perilous Road to the Market; Kashmir 1947: The Origins of a Dispute)
  • Deepak Lal (eleven books on economics)
  • Piloo Mody (Zulfy My Friend)
  • Shomit Mitter (Systems of Rehearsal)
  • Naveen Patnaik
  • Vijay Prashad (Untouchable Freedom; Karma of Brown Folk)
  • Shiv Kunal Verma (Ocean to Sky: India from the Air)

[edit] Print Journalists

[edit] Educationalists

[edit] Academics

  • Arjun Singh Bedi, Professor of Quantitative Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Ravi Mathai, Director of Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad)
  • Ravi Sandhu, Executive Director and Founder of Institute of Cyber Security Lutcher Brown endowed chair in Cyber Security Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chief Scientist and co-founder of Tricipher

[edit] Arts

  • Rohit Khosla, fashion designer, one of pioneers of Indian Fashion.


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