Deshbandhu College ( hi, देशबंधु कॉलेज) is a college established in 1952 and affiliated to

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. Deshbandhu College was established in 1953 by the Ministry of Rehabilitation, as a memorial to

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Deshbandhu Gupta.

Academics

Academic programmes

Undergraduate

*B.A. (Hons) Economics *B.A. (Hons) English *B.A. (Hons) Hindi *B.A. (Hons) History *B.A. (Hons) Political Science *B.A. (Hons) Sanskrit *B.A. Programme *B.Com. *B.Com. (Hons) *B.Sc. Applied Physical Sciences (Comp. Sc) *B.Sc. Applied Physical Science (Industrial Chemistry) *B.Sc. Life Sciences *B.Sc. Physical Sciences *B.Sc. (Hons) Botany *B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry *B.Sc. (Hons) Mathematics *B.Sc. (Hons) Physics *B.Sc. (Hons) Biochemistry *B.Sc. (Hons) Zoology

Postgraduate

*M.Com. *M.A. Hindi *M.A. English *M.A. Economics *M.A. Mathematics *M.A. Political Science *M.A. Sanskrit *M.Sc. Mathematics

Rankings

It is ranked 28th among colleges in India by

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in 2022.

Student life

Societies

Following is the list of societies of Deshbandhu College (excluding Departmental societies) - *Deshbandhu Dramatics Society - stage players *Oculis - film society *Deshbandhu Dramatics Society - street theatre *Dialecticians - English debating society *Antdristi - Hindi debating society *Art Meister - art and craft society *Fiontrai - entrepreneurship Cell *Quizzards - quizzing club *Sharpshooters - photography society *YUVA - Youth United for Vision and Action *Timbre - music society *IGNIS - flashmob group *

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*Enactus Deshbandhu *Deshbandhu Express - College media channel owned and run by students *DESH - college magazine *Leaders of tomorrow - NGO

Events

Deshbandhu College organises its annual fest Sabrang in even semesters. Each department has their societies which organise seminars and lectures by eminent scholars and scientists.

Notable people

Notable faculty

Om Prakash Kohli Om Prakash Kohli (born 9 August 1935) is an Indian politician and the former Governor of Gujarat from 2014 to 2019. He was the president of the Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Party from 1999 to 2000 and had served as a member of the Rajya Sabha ...

, former member of

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Ravish Kumar Ravish Kumar (born 5 December 1974) is an Indian journalist, author and media personality. He was the Senior Executive Editor of NDTV India. He hosted a number of programmes including the channel's flagship weekday show ''Prime Time'', ''Hum ...

, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee

Notable alumni

Prabhu Chawla Prabhu Chawla (born 2 October 1946) is an Indian journalist. He was born in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, British India. He is alumni of Deshbandhu college University of Delhi. He started his career as an economics lecturer in Delhi University. He i ...

, editorial director of ''

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'' *

Rajiv Goswami Rajiv Goswami (12 June 1971 - 24 February 2004) was a commerce student at the Deshbandhu College, Delhi University who came into prominence when he attempted self-immolation on 19 September 1990 to protest against Prime Minister V.P. Singh's imp ...

(d. 2004), president of

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Gulshan Kumar Gulshan Kumar Dua (5 May 1951 12 August 1997), was an Indian businessman, film and music producer who was the founder of the Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series) music label in the Bollywood industry. He founded T-Series in the 1980s ...

, founder of the T-Series music label; Bollywood movie producer *

, journalist, news anchor at

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Shantanu Moitra Shantanu Moitra (born 22 January 1968) is an Indian score composer, musician and pianist who has composed songs for the Hindi film industry, and is most known for his scores in the films '' Parineeta'' (2005), ''Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi'' (200 ...

, music composer,''Hindustan Times'', Brunch, 5 August 2012, p. 22.

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winner for music direction *

Raghu Ram Raghu Ram Ambadapudi (born 15 April 1975) is an Indian television producer and actor. He was a senior supervising producer at MTV India and the creator of reality television shows '' MTV Roadies'', '' MTV Dropout Pvt Ltd'' and '' MTV Splitsvil ...

, producer of

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's ''Roadies'' *

Ajay Dutt Ajay Dutt is an Indian legislator from Dr. Ambedkar Nagar constituency in the Seventh Legislative Assembly of Delhi. He has completed Graduation, MBA and Ph.D. scholar in Management. Before entering politics, he worked in an IT services organiz ...

, MLA,

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Ashok Lavasa Ashok Lavasa ( IAST: ) (born 21 October 1957) is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and was one of the two Election Commissioners of India. He has also served as the Finance Secretary of India, Enviro ...

, former

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* Late Major Udai Singh(Shaurya Chakra, Sena Medal)

References

External links

Official website of Deshbandhu College

Delhi University website profile of Deshbandhu College
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