- List of Stephanians
List of Distinguished Alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi. A student at or an alumnus of
St. Stephen's College, Delhi is called a Stephanian.Politics
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Omar Abdullah , Congress M.P. (Srinagar ,Jammu and Kashmir )
*Montek Singh Ahluwalia , Deputy Chairman of thePlanning Commission , and formerFinance Secretary
*Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed , FormerPresident of India
*Mani Shankar Aiyar , Union Minister for Sports and Youth affairs, andPanchayati Raj
*Sandeep Dikshit , Congress M.P. (EastDelhi )
*Gopalkrishna Gandhi , Governor ofWest Bengal
*Rahul Gandhi , Congress M.P. (Amethi , U.P.)
*Rajmohan Gandhi , FormerRajya Sabha MP
*Indrajit Gupta , FormerHome Minister and General Secretary of theCommunist Party of India
*Lala Hardayal , Founder of theGhadar Party
*Salman Khurshid , FormerForeign Minister
*Sucheta Kripalani , Former CM ofUttar Pradesh , India's first ladyChief Minister
*Sachin Pilot , Congress M.P. (Dausa , Rajasthan)
*Salim Ahmed Salim FormerPrime Minister ofTanzania and Secretary-General of theOAU
*Kamalesh Sharma ,Secretary General of theCommonwealth
*Arun Shourie , former Union Minister for Disinvestment, and editor of theIndian Express
*Kapil Sibal , Congress M.P.Chandni Chowk , Delhi
*Arun Singh , Former Minister of State for Defence
*Digvijay Singh , FormerChief Minister ofMadhya Pradesh
*Dushyant Singh , B.J.P. M.P. (Dholpur , Rajasthan)
*Natwar Singh , FormerForeign Minister and former CongressWorking President
*Rao Birendra Singh , FormerChief Minister ofHaryana
*Vir Bhadra Singh , Former Chief Minister ofHimachal Pradesh
*Shashi Tharoor , United Nations official and writer
*Sitaram Yechury , Head of the International Department,CPI(M)
*Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , Former President ofPakistan
*Lalitha Kumaramangalam , member, National executive,BJP Theatre and cinema
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Ketan Anand
*Kabir Bedi
*Mahmood Farooqui
*Benjamin Gilani
*Safdar Hashmi
*Siddharth Kak
*Shekhar Kapur
*Ali Kazimi
*Amit Khanna
*Anurag Sinha
*Rajiv Mehrotra
*Joy Michael
*Sumit Roy
*Parikshit Sahni
*Roshan Seth
*Chandrachur Singh
*Konkona Sen Sharma Writers, poets and critics
The preponderance of Stephanians in
Indo-Anglian writing was so great for some time that some critics began to speak of the "St. Stephen's School of Literature ". This issue has been heavily debated in the book "The Fiction of St. Stephen's", by various writers and scholars, includingAmitav Ghosh ,Shashi Tharoor ,Upamanyu Chatterjee ,Mukul Kesavan ,Khushwant Singh ,Tapan Basu ,Brinda Bose , etc. The book is edited byAditya Bhattacharjea andLola Chatterjee .*
S. Amir Hasan Abidi
*Rukun Advani
*Upamanyu Chatterjee
*Leela Gandhi
*Amitav Ghosh
*Ramachandra Guha
*Mukul Kesavan
*Arjun Mahey
*Anurag Mathur
*Makarand Paranjpe
*Balachandra Rajan
*Chandra Rajan
*Nilanjana S. Roy
*I. Allan Sealy
*Brijraj Singh
*Khushwant Singh
*Madan Gopal Singh
*Ashok Vajpeyi
*Pavan K. Varma
* [http://www.vijaysingh.net/ Vijay Singh ]
*Nirmal Verma
*Ghulam Yazdani Media and journalism
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Pallavi Aiyar , author and China correspondent ofThe Hindu
*Swaminathan Aiyar , economist and editor of theThe Economic Times
*Niret J. Alva , television producer and CEO, Miditech
*Shiv Aroor , defence correspondent,Headlines Today
*Gaurav Banerjee , anchor,Star News
*Siddhartha Basu , television producer and quizmaster
*Satinder Bindra , India Bureau Chief,CNN (Masters only)
*George Binoy , correspondent forCricinfo
*Vikram Chandra , television anchor and journalist
*Sreeram Chaulia , international affairs analyst atAsia Times Online
*Parag Kumar Das , journalist, Novelist; editor of Assamese newspapers likeAsamiya Pratidin ,Budhbar andAagaan .
*Swapan Dasgupta , journalist, political analyst and former Managing Editor ofIndia Today
*Suman Dubey , journalist and head ofDow Jones in South Asia
*Barkha Dutt , television anchor and journalist
*Sonia Faleiro , journalist and author
*Bhaskar Ghose , formerDoordarshan chief, TV anchor and columnist
*Sagarika Ghose , news editor and columnist,CNN-IBN
*Paranjoy Guha Thakurta , Director,School of Convergence
*Prem Shankar Jha , journalist and columnist
*Manoj Joshi , journalist and deputy editor atMail Today
*Mammen Mathew , editor and Managing Director,Malayala Manorama
*Chandan Mitra , editor of theThe Pioneer, Delhi
*Anshuman Sen photographer
*Sreenath Sreenivasan , Dean of Students, Columbia Journalism SchoolMountaineer & Explorer
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Mandip Singh Soin FRGS ,Explorer andMountaineer and Eco Tourism expert. Owner Award winning travel company - Ibex Expeditions P Ltd. www.ibexexpeditions.comports
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Kirti Azad , cricketer forDelhi and India, andBJP MP
*Ritwik Bhattacharya , squash player
*Ankita Bhambri andSanaa Bhambri , tennis players who were undergraduates briefly
*Arun Lal , cricketer forBengal and India, and television commentator
*M.N. Masud , Olympian hockey player
*Salil Oberoi , Cricketer forDelhi andOxford University
*Allan Daniel Peoples , shooter
*Jaspal Rana ,Asian Games gold medallist shooter
*Maharaja Karni Singh , Olympian shooter
*Mansher Singh ,Commonwealth Games gold medallist shooterOther alumni
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Rahul Bajaj , Chairman of theBajaj Group
*Rohit Bal ,fashion designer
*Kaushik Basu , economist and commentator
*Vivek Bhandari , director,Institute of Rural Management, Anand
*Sanjiv Bikhchandani ,co-founder andCEO , Naukri.com
*Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud ,jurist
*Vinod Chowdhury ,economist andinternational relations expert
*John Dayal ,Dalit rights activist and Head of theAll India Christian Council
*S.N. Kohli , former Admiral and Chief of Naval Staff
*Pratap Chandra Lal , former Air Chief Marshal
*Arun Maira , India chairperson,The Boston Consulting Group
*Rajendra Prasad, Principal,Ramjas College, Delhi
*Ishtiaq Hussain Qureishi , Historian and former Vice-Chancellor ofLahore University
*Bharat Ram ,Chairperson Emeritus ,DCM Group
*Shikha Swaroop ,Miss India
*Param Vir , contemporary classical composerResearchers
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Manik Varma , Researcher: Microsoft Research IndiaInfamous
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Moninder Singh Pandher , accused serial killer. St. Stephen's has claimed, however, that he obtained admission into College but did not join.
*Jagat Singh , former Congress M.L.ARajasthan accused by a U.N. Independent Enquiry Committee (popularly known as thePaul Volcker Committee ) as a beneficiary of illegal payoffs from the United Nation’sOil for Food Programme in Iraq. His fatherNatwar Singh had to resign from Cabinet as India’s Foreign Minister and also lost membership from the Congress Working Committee due to the allegations.External links
* [http://www.ststephens.edu/StStephens/httpdocs/alumni/hof.htm Official Alumni List]
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