A bell tolls, echoing through the grounds of the sprawling, ivy-clad mansion, prompting groups of boys with neat, uniform haircuts to file across its courtyards to the classrooms.
If not all of the teenage pupils are entirely enthusiastic, that is understandable. It is, after all, barely 6.15am. And for five young boarders, this elite, elegantly mannered institution is not only thousands of miles from their homes in the UK, but worlds away from anything they have ever experienced before.
Here, nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, is India’s Eton, the Doon School, famed for educating the sons of maharajahs and billionaires, and now the setting for a remarkable and audacious television experiment.
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