The Doon School Weekly
The Doon School Weekly Founder’s Day Edition 2007 editorial ‘ An open bracket signifies perpetuity, a belief held by the Weekly, and relevant to a sixty-year old nation poised to dominate the global arena. SHIKHAR SINGH: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE DOON SCHOOL WEEKLY (2007) ’ Just outside my House, the stage is set again for tion: “Isn’t it merely a puppet?”; “It’s censored, yaar!”; the Founder’s Day festivities and with it, the beginning “No Roving Eye?” [disappointed]; “Your polls are con- of the end. As the signing-off comes closer, my last cocted.” And it’s true that uneasy lies the head that Weekly takes the form of a Founder’s Day Special. If wears the crown, for change is difficult to manifest and I were to do a quick recount, the year that was, was a it takes more than a visionary to break from the tradi- series of experiments – in content, organization, per- tional mould. In the year gone by, my efforts have spective, and vision. I remember, as a B former, writ- been directed towards living those changes in the Weekly ing a letter to the Weekly citing poor visual appeal as a that I had envisioned in my junior forms. And of reason for its dwindling readership. And I also re- course, a naïve D former on the Martyn and Foot member, a short editorial note that supplemented this House tables would dismiss me, as I had done, five letter, which read: “Shikhar, we agree with you entirely. years ago. The ride has been bumpy, but satisfying in Looking good is an essential part of being read and the sense that drastic changes may not have occurred we at the Weekly fully well realize that.
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