President of ELINEPA attended the Annual Hindi Competition at Doon School, Dehradun
Indian languages professor and president of ELINEPA Dr. Dimitrios Vassiliadis visited Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India on March 5 – 7, 2025, as Chief Guest in the committee awarding students who took part in the annual Hindi competition organized by the school’s Hindi and Sanskrit department. During the event, he distributed poems by the leading Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, translated by him into Hindi, and interacted with the students and teachers.
Dr. Dimitrios Vassiliadis had a very constructive meeting with the schoolmaster Dr. Jagpreet Singh, who expressed strong interest in his school’s participation in exchange programs with Greek schools and in the higher education of Doon School graduates in Greek universities, mainly in the sectors of tourism and shipping for which Greece is famous and plays a leading role internationally.
Dr. Jagpreet Singh, who studied history, showed a keen interest in the cultural heritage that connects the two peoples for millennia and has become of strategic importance following the mutual exchange of visits by the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Greece and India.
Doon School is a selective private boarding school for boys, founded in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, as a school modeled after the British public school, while being aware of Indian aspirations. The school was officially opened on 27 October 1935, with Lord Willingdon presiding over the ceremony. The school’s first principal was Arthur E. Foot, an English educationist who had spent nine years as a science teacher at Eton College in England. The school accommodates approximately 580 students aged 12 to 18, and admission is based on a competitive entrance examination. Many of its alumni are now distinguished scientists, politicians, industrialists, and businessmen who play an important role in the cultural, political, and economic life of Indian society.
