The prestigious Doon School is celebrating its 79th Founder’s Day and the festivities began last night with staging of the comical parody -
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged).This was a highly innovative and fast paced interpretation of the Adam long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winsfield’s comical parody.
The production was directed by Shrey Naglia and the cast of three boys will have the chance to perform the play again at St Stephen’s College in Delhi next week in front of an undergraduate audience.
The Arts@Doon programme will continue throughout the celebrations with a performance of the Hindi play Tughlaq in The Rose Bowl and a music concert on 18 October. Kunal Bahl, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Snapdeal.com will address the school on Saturday, 18 October.
In February 2010, Kunal along with Rohit Bansal started Snapdeal.com, India’s largest online marketplace, with the mission to create life- changing experiences through the platform by connecting buyers to sellers of millions of products from thousands of national, international and regional brands.
With over twenty five million members and fifty thousand sellers, Snapdeal.com is the shopping destination for internet users across the country, delivering to 5000+ cities and towns in India.
Kunal is an engineer from University of Pennsylvania, with a business degree from The Wharton School.
Kunal serves on Unilever’s Global Digital Advisory Board and the Board of Governors of The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. Mr Bahl is also featured in the 2014 Fortune Global 40 under 40 list.
With several exhibitions and plays on show today ,a few beiing the mock session of the Indian parliament, the English exhibition on World War 1, the Hindi Street play and as always the brilliant art exhibition put up by the art school staff and boys.
Along with the school band entertaining parents with some lively music, people also attended the much revered Chandbagh Debates which as alway, lived up to its expectations. This time however the school debating team was up against the batch of 89’ which happened to be celebrating its 25th anniversary.
The topic (‘Should this house question its traditions’) was debated upon profusely and went in favour of the current boys who ended up winning the debate by a single point along with grabbing the best speaker(Yash Upadhyay) and most promising (Vrindam Nagpal)speaker awards.
Towards the end of the day, parents were entertained with the much awaited Hindi play, Tughlaq, which was performed in the Rose Bowl. It was enacted brilliantly by the boys and as always lived up to its expectaitions.