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Heads of State from College : Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (India), Gen. Zia Ul-Haq (Pakistan) and Selim-e-Selim (Tanzania)
Some Vice-Chancellors from College: Sir Abdur Rehman (Universities of Delhi, Punjab and Madras), Dr Ram Kishore (Delhi), Dr J.C.Chatterjee (Agra), Dr Ram Behari (Jodhpur), Dr S.M. Sen (Bardwan), I.H. Qureshi (Karachi) and currently Dr. Deepak Nayyar (Delhi University)
Some Olympians from College: M.N. Masud, Late Maharaja of Bikaner, Dr. Karni Singh, Randhir Singh, and Ranjit Bhatia.
Some Journalists from College : Sri Krishna, Vishnu
Dutt, B.G.Verghese, C.S.Pandit, Ajit Bhattachajea, Nandan
Kagal, Prem Bhatia, Swaminathan Aiyar, Arun Shourie, Dilip
Cherian, Prem Shankar Jha and Suman Dubey.
Some Novelists from College : Gopal Gandhi, Amitav
Ghosh, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Nirmal Verma, Shashi Tharoor,
Alan Sealy, Anurag Mathur, Mukul Kesavan;and Khushwant
Singh.
Some Film-makers, Actors and Theatre personalities from
College : Ketan Anand, Kabir Bedi, Siddharth Kak, Shekhar
Kapur, Amit Khanna, Rajiv Mehrotra, Joy Michael, Parikshit
Sahni, Roshan Seth and Safdar Hashmi (College Street was
renamed Safdar Hashmi Marg after his death).Madhur
Jaffrey, who was in Miranda House, acted in several
Shakespeare Society productions in the 1950s.
Some Politicians from College : Sucheta Kriplani,
Vir Bhadra Singh, Vikram Mahajan, Lalit Sen, Inderjit
Gupta, K.Natwar Singh, Digvijay Singh, Rao Birendra Singh,
Mani Shankar Aiyar, Arun Singh, Salman Khursheed.
Civil Servants from College : If we were to list them, a separate website would have to be created.
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A red brick building and what each one decides to inscribe
on it...like an artist's 'pentimento' - different
portraits painted and repainted on the same canvas. But a
new coat of paint can never obliterate the one underneath,
and in places, it peels away to reveal the strokes and
shades of an earlier work. And so with college each era
leaves it's trace, in the form of views and perspectives
of what college stands for. Take a look at some fragments
of this 'pentimento' ( List
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