Foot House
Housemaster
Mr Debashish Chakrabarty
Sitting (L to R): Mr Vinay Pande, Tanya Makhija, Ms Anamika Ghose, Dhruv Pais, Mrs Namrata Pande, Shashvat Gandhi, Mr Debashish Charkabarty, Yuvan Jaidka, Mrs Kanchan Shukla, Fateh Khanna, Mrs Abia Qezilbash, Ishita Bhardwaj Standing 1st Row (L to R): Shikhar Trivedi, Siddhant Kumar, Omar Chisti, Vatsal Bora, Ishan Jhawar, Ajatshatru Singh, Ishaan Garg, Aditya Verma, Viraaj Gaur, Udayveer Singh Sekhon, Aaryaman Singh, Akshat Jha, Vatsal Kumar Gupta, Talin Aggarwal, Divij Mullick, Kalpit Sharma Standing 2nd Row (L to R): Tanay Agarwal, Shresth Verma, Pragun Aggarwal, Suryansh Kainthola, Yash Mittal, Aditya Vardhan Agrawal, Chaitanya Gulati, Prakarsh Gupta, Rushil Goyal, Atreya Guruprasad, Ahaan Gupta, Bharat Hari Chaudhary, Krishna Goyal, Hritansh Nagdev, Rohan Singh, Ahaan Agarwal, Aryan Singla, Arnav Gupta Standing 3rd Row (L to R): Rajendar Prasad, Kishan Lal, Sheesh Pal
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” —Anoine de Saint-Exupery Dreaming for the sea of the future begins at the Foot and Martyn Houses in The Doon School. The boys who joined in 2012 were mentored by Mr Vinay Pande, Mrs Namrata Pandey, Mrs Abia Qezilbash, Ms Anamika Ghose and Ms Prachi Nagalia. Ms Kanchan Shukla mothered them in her role as the dame of the House. 40 students joined the House in April 2012—38 boys and two girls (Tanya Makhija and Ishita). The students went for their mid-terms to Jwarna, near Dhanaulti, in the Spring term. The boys did a 14 km trek to the temple of Surkanda Devi. In the Autumn mid-term, the entire House went to Lansdowne escorted by Mrs Qezilbash, Mr Pande and the Housemaster. The boys pristine Tarakeshwar temple, nestled in a bowl of deodar trees. The Footies went on a Night Out to Kalsi, where they had a serendipitous splash-about in a billabong and then visited the rock edict of Ashoka. The House did two social service outings where they planted trees. On one occasion, the House was also taken out for a treat in which they watched the latest James Bond release, “Skyfall”. In the activities (e.g. House Good Chit register, Social Service register, etc.) to disciplinary (Dorm monitor, Toye monitor, etc.) and creative (Editors and Producers of The Footprints Wall Magazine). 162