, motto_translation = "Dare to be wise, sincere and constant" , streetaddress = 1 Ashok Place , city =

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, zipcode = 110001 , country = India , coordinates = , pushpin_map = India Delhi#India , pushpin_mapsize = 220 , established = , type =

Private Private or privates may refer to: Music * " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation'' * Private (band), a Denmark-based band * "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorde ...

, affiliation = CBSE , grades = KG-12 , principal =Br. Robert Fernandes , founder =

Edmund Ignatius Rice Edmund Ignatius Rice ( ga, Éamonn Iognáid Rís; 1 June 1762 – 29 August 1844) was a Catholic missionary and educationalist. He was the founder of two religious institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and t ...

, faculty = 100+ , pupils = 3500 , gender =Boys , publication = The Columban , colors =

Green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 Nanometre, nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by ...

and

Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...

, free_label_1 = Former pupils , free_1 = Old Columbans , website = St. Columba's School in

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

, India, established in 1941, is one of the 12,000

English medium An English-medium education system is one that uses English as the primary medium of instruction—particularly where English is not the mother tongue of the students. Initially this is associated with the expansion of English from its homeland i ...

schools of its kind established by the Indian Province of the

Congregation of Christian Brothers The Congregation of Christian Brothers ( la, Congregatio Fratrum Christianorum; abbreviated CFC) is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice. Their first school was opened in Waterford, Ireland, ...

, which was founded by

. The school's campus is located in the heart of Delhi and extends over a couple of acres. St. Columba's School alumni include three

Rhodes Scholars The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

, a

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

winner, and a

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awardee. Students are referred to as Columbans. The school admits only boys.

History

St. Columba's was founded in 1941 by the

. St. Columba's School, New Delhi is one of the 19 Christian Brothers Schools in India. St. Columba's School began with 32 boys in New Delhi next to the Sacred Heart Cathedral, admitting through class 6. It was one of the first schools in India to introduce computer education. The junior school opened in 1942, at the site of what previously had been a rose garden.

Notable alumni

Academics and Sciences

Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra (; ; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternati ...

, 1963, physician, public speaker, writer and New Age spiritual guru *

Sanjiv Chopra Sanjiv Chopra, M.B.B.S, M.A.C.P, is an Indian-born American physician, Professor of Medicine and former Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education (CME) at Harvard Medical School. He currently serves as a Marshall Wolf Master Clinician Edu ...

, 1964, physician, Professor of Medicine and former Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

Rajeev Motwani Rajeev Motwani (Hindi: राजीव मोटवानी , March 24, 1962 – June 5, 2009) was an Indian American professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was an early ad ...

Gödel Prize The Gödel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Inter ...

winner, former Professor of Computer Science at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

Randeep Guleria Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and the ex-director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, credited with the establishment of India's first centre for pulmonary medicines an ...

, 1975, surgeon,

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awardee *

Siddhartha Mukherjee Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, '' The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'', that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pu ...

Rhodes Scholar The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

winning author of ''The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer''; Assistant Professor of Medicine at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Nitin Nohria Nitin Nohria (born February 9, 1962) is an Indian-American academic. He was the tenth dean of Harvard Business School. He is also the George F. Baker Professor of Administration. He is a former non-executive director of Tata Sons. Early life and ...

, 1980, 10th and current dean of

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, where he was named the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration * Pradipta Banerji, Professor and Director

IIT Roorkee Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India, and was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in Bri ...

Mahesh Rangarajan Mahesh Rangarajan (born 22 April 1964) is a researcher, author and historian with a special interest in environmental history and colonial history of ''British and contemporary India''. He has taught Environmental Studies and History at Ashoka U ...

and Professor of History at

Krea University Krea University is an Indian state private university located in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. The liberal institution is backed by IFMR and focuses on interwoven learning. It was founded in 2018 by a team of academicians and industrialists. This ...

* Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme, 1952,

, Director of

IIT Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay or IITB) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of the best engineering universities in India and is top ranked ...

, Chairman of

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* C V Seshadri, Professor and Dean

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

Pradeep Dubey Pradeep Dubey (born 9 January 1951) is an Indian game theorist. He is Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and a member of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory. He also holds a visiting position at Cowles Founda ...

, game theorist, Professor of Economics at SUNY, Stony Brook *

Vijay Balasubramanian Vijay Balasubramanian (born 1969) is a theoretical physicist and the Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted research in string theory, quantum field theory, and biophysics (es ...

, theoretical physicist, Professor of Physics and Neuroscience at the

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Prashant Pillai Prashant Pillai (born 8 September 1981) is a music producer and composer from India. Early career After completing his Sound engineering in Chennai, he went on to work with A.R.Rahman. After a short stint with him, he moved on and settled in ...

, Professor of Cyber Security and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Enterprise at

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* J.R. Rao, 1979, IBM Fellow, CTO of Security Research at

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Arts and Entertainment

Shahrukh interacts with media after KKR's maiden IPL title

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, 1985,

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, Indian actor *

Ritvik Arora Ritvik Arora (born 22 October 1997) is an Indian television actor. He made his acting debut when he portrayed Ahaan Dhanrajgir in ''Tu Aashiqui'' and is best known for ''Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke'' as Kunal Rajvansh. Early life Ritvik was b ...

, 2015, actor *

George Chakravarthi George Chakravarthi is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, video, painting and performance. His work addresses the politics of identity including race, sexuality and gender, and also religious iconography among other subjects. ...

, artist *

Mukul Dev Mukul Dev (born 17 September 1970) is an Indian television and film actor. He is known for his work in Hindi films, Punjabi films, TV serials and music albums. He has also acted in few Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu films. He received t ...

, actor *

Rahul Dev Rahul Dev (born 27 September 1968) is an Indian actor and former model who predominantly works in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam language films and few Marathi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Punjabi and Odia flims. Early life Ra ...

, model and actor *

Vinil Mathew Vinil Mathew (born 1977) is an Indian filmmaker and writer, who predominantly directs and produces television commercials. He has also directed two feature films. After studying filmmaking at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), he ...

, ad-filmmaker and Bollywood director *

Gaurav Chopra Gaurav Chopra (born 4 April 1979) is an Indian television actor. He is best known for starring on Uttaran and Sadda Haq as Raghuvendra Pratap Rathore and Prof Abhay Singh Ranawat respectively. He has appeared as a contestant on ''Bigg Boss 10' ...

, actor *

Arjun Mathur Arjun Mathur (born 18 October 1981) is a British people, British-Indian people, Indian actor working predominantly in Bollywood films, web series and television serials. He was seen internationally in the British drama series, ''Indian Summers' ...

, actor *

Kunal Nayyar Kunal Nayyar (, ; born 30 April 1981) is a British actor. He portrayed Raj Koothrappali on the CBS sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'' (2007–2019) and voiced Vijay on the Nickelodeon animated sitcom ''Sanjay and Craig'' (2013–2016). Nayyar als ...

, actor; best known for his role as

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on the American sitcom ''

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'' *

Sanam Puri Sanam is an Indian pop rock band formed in 2010 currently based in Mumbai, India known for its renditions of old classic Indian Bollywood songs as well as original music. The band SANAM consists of Sanam Puri (lead vocalist/composer), Samar ...

, Bollywood singer and independent artist *

Cyrus Sahukar Cyrus Sahukar (born 6 August 1980) is an Indian VJ (media personality), VJ and Bollywood actor. He is known for his comic wit in shows like ''Semi Girebaal'' and other such satirical comedy shows, hosting, and spoofs. Early life and educati ...

, 1998, VJ and actor *

Palash Sen Palash Sen is an Indian singer, songwriter, musician, composer and actor best known as the founder and frontman of India's Rock/Pop band Euphoria. Early life and education Born to doctors, he comes from a family of Rajvaidyas (Sen Sharma) and ...

, singer (

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) * Sudeep Sen, author/poet *

Keith Sequeira Keith Sequeira (born 30 April 1980) is an Indian actor, and a former model and VJ. He modeled for Raymond's ''The Complete Man campaign'' before gaining popularity as ''VJ Keith'' on B4U. He featured in the music video "Shake It Daddy" with A ...

, actor and model *

Samir Kochhar Samir Kochhar (born 23 May 1980) is an Indian actor and television presenter known for being the host of the pre-match Indian Premier League show, ''Extraaa Innings T20''. He currently stars in Netflix India's Sacred Games. Career Kochhar star ...

, actor and television presenter known for being the host of the Indian Premier League * Anubhav Srivastava, 2004, filmmaker *

Amit Khanna Amit Khanna is an Indian film producer, director, writer, and journalist. He was the founder chairman of Reliance Entertainment, former president of the Producers Guild of India, and the founder trustee of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Imag ...

, film executive, filmmaker, lyricist, winner of

National Film Award for Best Lyrics The National Film Award for Best Lyrics (the Silver Lotus Award) is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) to a lyricist who has composed the best song for films produced within the Ind ...

in 1995 *

Vibhav Roy Vibhav Roy is an Indian actor and model. Roy made his acting debut in '' Life OK''’s show '' Gustakh Dil''. Vibhav started as a model and has been in TV commercials for well known brands such as Hindware, Suzuki Connect, Philips and Olay among ...

, actor, model *

Tarun Jain Tarun Jain (born 18 May 1985) is an Indian writer, actor and entrepreneur. He is best known for writing Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 and De De Pyaar De, as well as for creating, writing and acting in the Digital Sitcom ''Life Sahi Hai.'' He is also th ...

, writer, actor *

Ali Kazimi Ali Kazimi D. Litt. (born 1961) is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker, media artist and writer. Early life and education Born and raised in India, Kazimi attended St. Columba's School and graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University in 198 ...

, filmmaker and writer *

Writer, Poet, Film maker, Entrepreneur, Media Guru.

Politics

Rahul Gandhi Rahul Gandhi ( ; born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian Parliament, representing the constituency of Wayanad, Kerala in the 17th Lok Sabha. A member of the Indian National Congress, he served as the president of ...

, politician, son of former

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Rajiv Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to beco ...

; Former President of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

and Chairperson of the

United Progressive Alliance United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is a centre-left political alliance of predominantly left-leaning political parties in India. It was formed after the 2004 general election with support from left-leaning political parties when no single party ...

Sonia Gandhi Sonia Gandhi ('' née'' Maino; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest serving president of the Indian National Congress, a social democratic political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independ ...

Sanjay Gandhi Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 23 June 1980) was an Indian politician and the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. He was a member of parliament, Lok Sabha and the Nehru–Gandhi family. During his lifetime, he was widely expected ...

politician; son of Prime Minister

Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 ...

Gaurav Gogoi Gaurav Gogoi is an Indian politician of Indian National Congress from the Indian state of Assam. He is son of former chief minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi. He contested the Indian general elections 2014 and 2019 from Kaliabor seat and won. Gau ...

, Member of Parliament * Derek O'Brien, Indian television personality and Member of Parliament *

Anil Shastri Anil Kumar Shastri is an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He is known for his outspoken views. Presently, he is Chairman of the Hindi Department in All India Congress Committee. He was elected to the ninth Lo ...

, politician, former member of

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representing the

. *

Jayant Sinha Jayant Sinha (born 21 April 1963) is an Indian politician who is the Member of Indian Parliament and formerly the Minister of State for Finance and the Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Government of India. Sinha is currently the Ch ...

, Minister of State, Finance, Government of India; Member of Parliament *

Abhishek Manu Singhvi Abhishek Manu Singhvi (born 24 February 1959) is an Indian lawyer and politician. As politician, he is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and a current Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, t ...

, 1975, politician, spokesperson for the

Adarsh Shastri Adarsh Shastri (born 16 October 1973) is an Indian politician represented Dwarka (Delhi Assembly constituency). He is former leader of Aam Aadmi Party and Now Leader Of Indian National Congress and a social entrepreneur involved in promotio ...

, politician belonging to the

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* Suneet Chopra, politician, trade unionist, belonging to the

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Conrad Sangma Conrad Kongkal Sangma (born 27 January 1978) is an Indian politician who is the 12th and current Chief Minister of Meghalaya. He assumed presidency of the National People's Party in 2016 after the death of his father who was former Chief Minis ...

, Chief Minister of the State of

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Sidharth Nath Singh Sidharth Nath Singh (born 1 October 1963) is an Indian politician and the Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He is one of the official spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a grandson of former Prime Minister of I ...

, Minister of Health, Government of Uttar Pradesh

Civil Servants

* Ajit Seth, 30th Cabinet Secretary of India *

Najeeb Jung Najeeb Jung (born 18 January 1951) is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from July 2013 to December 2016. He previously served as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islam ...

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, ex-vice chancellor of

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Vijay Keshav Gokhale Vijay Keshav Gokhale IFS, born 24 January 1959, is a retired Indian diplomat and the 32nd Foreign Secretary of India. Gokhale previously served as the Ambassador of India to China. Personal life & education Gokhale hails from Pune. He did his sc ...

, 32nd

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of India * Rahul Bhatnagar, Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh *

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, Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan during the

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, India's Ambassador to Armenia *

Manjeev Singh Puri Manjeev Singh Puri ( Punjabi: ਮੰਜੀਵ ਸਿੰਘ ਪੁਰੀ) is a retired Indian civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service cadre and the former Ambassador of India to Nepal. Education He has an MBA and did his B.A. (Honours) in Ec ...

, India's Ambassador to Brussels and Nepal * Sanjay Bhattacharya, India's Ambassador to Egypt and Turkey * Geromic George,(Batch of 2007) District Collector, Thiruvananthapuram.

Law

* Badar Durrez Ahmed, Chief Justice High Court of Jammu and Kashmir * Justice

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* Justice B. P. Singh, Justice of Supreme Court of India

Business

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, 1975, CEO of

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* Suresh Kumar, Director-General

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, 1962,

, Founder of

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, 1981,

, Founder and CEO of

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* Piyush Gupta, 1976, CEO and Director of

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* Ajay Singh, 1984, founder and Chairman,

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* Asim Ghosh, 1963, former CEO of Husky Energy, an integrated Canadian oil and gas company and former CEO of Vodafone Essar. *

Victor Menezes Victor J. Menezes (born 14 May 1949) is an Indian banker. Early life He was born in Pune, India on 14 May 1947, the son of Manuel Menezes, who was the chairman of the Indian Railway Board. His younger brother Ivan Menezes is CEO of Diageo. H ...

, Senior Vice Chairman,

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Lalit Modi Lalit Modi (born 29 November 1963) is an Indian businessman and former cricket administrator. He was the founder, first chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL), and ran the tournament for three years until 2010. He also ser ...

, businessman, cricket administrator *

Lalit Suri Lalit Suri was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament, representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as an Independent politician An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not ...

, hotelier and

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Member of Parliament *

Neeraj Kanwar Neeraj Kanwar (born 6 September 1971) is an Indian businessman. He is the vice chairman and managing director of Apollo Tyres. Education Kanwar was educated at St. Columba's School, Delhi and thereafter graduated in engineering from Lehigh U ...

, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Apollo Tyres * Patu Keswani, Chairman and Managing Director of

Lemon Tree Hotels Lemon Tree Hotels is an Indian hotel chain A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites wit ...

* Yashish Dahiya, Founder and CEO of

Policybazaar Policybazaar is an Indian insurance aggregator and multinational financial technology company based in Gurgaon. The company was founded in June 2008 by Yashish Dahiya, Alok Bansal and Avaneesh Nirjar. It provides a digital platform - website an ...

* Sumant Sinha, Chairman and Managing Director of

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* Lt

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Senior school

The senior school building once housed the entire school. Today, the 11th and 12th classes are found here along with a library, science laboratories and the administration wing. On the first floor were the residences of the Christian Brothers, which were shifted to the Provincialate Wing in 2011.

Edmund Rice Hall

The Edmund Rice Hall (ERH) has an indoor basketball and badminton court. It has a stage at one end, seating space to accommodate more than 2000 people and stadium-like seating at the far end. It hosts the annual Christmas play that is a major attraction, organised entirely by the students and the faculty. It also hosts the Columban Jindal basketball tournament.

Columban Open Quiz

The Columban Open Quiz is the premier school quiz of North India, with more than 200 teams participating every year. Started in 1984, The Columban Open Quiz is one of the most prestigious events in the circuit. The winner of the quiz has exclusive bragging rights and a prestigious trophy. It is organised by the Quiz Society of St. Columba's consisting of students and a teacher in charge. The quiz is generally held in August and the quiz society has produced some good quiz-masters like Derek o'Brien, Adittya Nath Mubayi and Kunal Savarkar.

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