Lady Irwin Senior Secondary School -'Dhiyo yo nah Prachodayaat', Rig Veda (10:16:3)

Ms. Bharati Banerjee, Faculty at Lady Irwin School, New Delhi was a member of the all-women Mountaineering Expedition Team of 1970 that successfully scaled the Hanuman Tibba Peak (5928 m - 19450 feet ) on October 5, 1970. The expedition was led by M.C. Usha. The other members were Sudha Talwar and Sherpa Lobsang.  Bharati Banerjee (centre) of Lady Irwin School was a member of the Hanuman Tibba Expedition that successfully climbed the 19450 feet high Himalayan Peak. The expedition was successful even though it met with bad weather all along. Hanuman Tibba Peak Height: 19450 feet The Expedition Team Members Pictures from the Team felicitation Once again, in 1974 Bharati Banerjee along with another climber Heather Larsen successfully climbed Bhunoti (18,000t), a peak in the Garhwal-Kumaun Himalaya Range. For more information on the Expedition, click here. Ms. Bharati Banerjee was also a member of the The Indo-Japanese Women’s Expedition in 1976. It was sponsored by the Japanese Alpine Clu

Maneesha Haldar is an alumna of Lady Irwin School .   Maneesha Haldar, exponent Odissi Classical dance is an alumna of Lady Irwin School She is a rising talent in the field of Odissi Dance. She has learnt Odissi under the able guidance of Guru Sutapa Talukdar and Guru (Padmashree) Madhavi Mudgal who is also an alumna of Lady Irwin School . Here is a performance by Maneesha Haldar.

Feed from State Judicial Academy, Jammu and Kashmir State: Justice Gita Mittal was born on 9th December, 1958 to parents who were in academics. An alumna of the Lady Irwin Senior Secondary School [Science batch of 1975], and the Campus Law Centre, Delhi University [(LL.B) 1981], she was appointed as an Additional Judge of Delhi High Court on 16th July, 2004. Prior to her appointment as Additional Judge, she had an illustrious legal practice in all courts and other judicial forums since 1981. Justice Mittalwas confirmed as a permanent judge on the 20th of February, 2006. As a judge, she has presided over several jurisdictions including heading a Division Bench hearing criminal appeals involving life and death sentence references; matters of the Armed Forces; Cooperative Societies; Criminal Contempt References; Criminal Appeals; Death References; Company Appeals; Writ Petitions and Letters Patent Appeals relating to the Armed Forces. She currently presides over a Division Bench hearing

Feed from www.Goodreads.com Parul (Agarwal) Mittal, an alumna of Lady Irwin School is the author of national bestseller novel “Heartbreaks & Dreams! – The Girls @ IIT”. Her second book “Arranged Love” captured the hearts of Indian youth. She has just released her third novel Let's Have Coffee with Rupa Publications. Apart from reading and writing fiction, the author loves listening to old Hindi music, playing board games, painting, trekking and lawn tennis.  She did her BTech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1995, followed by Masters in Computer Science from UMich, Ann Arbor. She has worked in the corporate world (Hughes, IBM Research, Nextag, Yatra) for over thirteen years. She co-founded an online parenting website called RivoKids. At present she is running recreational math camps for kids and trying to find her FLOW. Born and brought up in Delhi, she did her schooling at Lady Irwin School, New Delhi and Navrachna School, Baroda. She is married to Alok Mittal and

Miss Kamala Sengupta, the woman who singlehandedly brought the school up to the number 1 position. She was the principal from 1948-1973. That was the time when five out of ten students in the merit list in the CBSE board results used to be from Lady Irwin School. We had large numbers of LIS students in the distinction list of each subject too. One year 50% of all admissions or what they called seats in the medical field in Delhi went to girls from LIS. We never had any students who failed in the boards or even got compartments. Miss Kamala Sengupta addressing The participants and spectators at the Lady Irwin School PT and Rhythmic Exercises.

Many of us at Lady Irwin School learnt Rabindra Sangeet in our junior classes. Some of us learnt the songs without really knowing the meaning of what we were singing. But it was enough to raise a sustained interest in music no matter what fields we chose later in life. Here is one that most students who studied at the Primary School in the 1960s and 70s will remember: The song is Amare Paray Paray. This is a version sung by the famous Hemanta Kumar.