Tuesday, 3 September 2019

Dehradun a city of schools


We are up in Dehradun near the foothills of the Himalayas visiting a brother school of HIBS. Welham Boys. Dehradun was until recently a sleepy hill station town. It got made the capital of a new region and is now a busy city. It’s leafy and clean and bizarrely there are over 300 secondary schools in the immediate vicinity. Most of them private boarding schools like Welham. They reckon a new school opens up every week and that business men have figured out that they can make good money on the back of owning a school! 
The town - albeit a city of 700,000 looks like a  typical chaotic Indian city  but the schools are an oasis of calm behind security walls and guards. The kids come from all over India.

Here at Welham all staff live on site. The campus of boarding and staff housing is impressive, although still has that slightly unfinished Indian infrastructure aspect to it. 

We arrived here yesterday to find out that they had more or less evacuated the school a day earlier. They are fearful of Dengue fever - not that many are sick 600/700,000 - but misinformation and exaggeration of claims is par for the course here. The reporting in local papers is hilarious. Might have been nice that they warned us though! Anyway we are staying in guests quarters, with a man servant attending to our every need. He’s a bit perplexed when we get up to clear the table and make our own cup of tea. 

We are off to lunch with the Principal today. She’s a woman heading a boy’s school in India - kinda cool! Interestingly their ethos is very like HVHS and HIBS - lots of caring for others and growing well rounded kids.
 
We went to a Tibetan monastery yesterday with a local historian - all arranged by the school. It was fascinating and so interesting to talk to yet another liberal, sensible academic. There is not much love of the Modi government by the people we are meeting.

We are off to Mussorie today a hill station made famous by the British. It was a summer get away from the heat of the plains. 

Outdoor theatre

3 basketball courts

School boarding hostel 



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