The Academy's dining services provide a varied menu throughout the week. We aim for meals to be nutritious and delicious and for mealtimes to be an important aspect of Academy life. We are committed to providing balanced vegetarian and non-vegetarian options for all meals.

Menu for 20–26 April 2015

Monday
Breakfast Fresh fruit juice Banana Choice of cereal with milk Brown bread and muffins with jam, butter and honey Scrambled eggs Baked beans, boiled arrowroot, grilled tomatoes Hot milk, tea, coffee, drinking chocolate	Lunch Beef vegetable soup  Salad bar Crumbed fish / fish fingers Sautéed potatoes Seasonal vegetables Matoke Ugali with fried cabbage Bhindi do pyaza Daal Roti and rice Fresh fruit	Dinner Cream of vegetable soup Salad bar Beef in mushroom sauce Vegetable kolapuri Daal Roti and rice Ugali Fried spinach Swiss roll
Tuesday
Breakfast Fresh fruit juice Banana Choice of cereal with milk Brown bread and Danish pastries with jam, butter and honey Eggs frittata Red kidney beans, oven roasted sweet potato, grilled tomatoes Hot milk, tea, coffee, drinking chocolate	Lunch Yellow lentil soup  Salad bar Rosemary chicken Naan Jeera rice Seasonal vegetables Roast chicken Ugali and fried cabbage Vegetable corn masala Rice Naan Cream caramel	Dinner French onion soup Salad bar Mutton pilau Vegetable pilau Cucumber raita Roti Daal Vermicelli
Wednesday
Breakfast Fresh fruit juice Banana Choice of cereal with milk Brown bread and doughnuts with jam, butter and honey Eggs, pancakes, beef sausage Baked beans, baked arrowroot, grilled tomatoes Hot milk, tea, coffee, drinking chocolate	Lunch Green pea soup  Salad bar Beef macaroni cheese bake Focaccia bread Vegetable macaroni cheese bake Focaccia bread Green beans Ground beef with ugali and sukuma Githeri Fruit crumble	Dinner Cream of tomato soup Salad bar Sweet and sour chicken Spring rolls with sweet and sour sauce Black bean curry (nijahi) Fried rice Noodles Ice cream
Thursday
Breakfast Fresh fruit juice Banana Choice of cereal with milk Brown bread and muffins with jam, butter and honey Poached eggs Fried red kidney beans, boiled sweet potato, grilled tomatoes Hot milk, tea, coffee, drinking chocolate	Lunch Vegetable broth Salad bar Crumbed chicken / chicken balls Mashed potatoes with gravy Vegetable medley Matoke Githeri Okra and spinach curry Daal Rice and roti Crème caramel	Dinner Leek potato soup Salad bar Chapati Rice Rajma Cabbage and carrot pickle Fresh mangoes
Friday
Breakfast Fresh fruit juice Banana Choice of cereal with milk Brown bread and Danish pastries with jam, butter and honey Country scrambled eggs Baked beans, steamed arrowroot, grilled tomatoes Hot milk, tea, coffee, drinking chocolate	Lunch Cauliflower soup  Salad bar Chicken biryani Cabbage and pickle curry Cucumber raita Spaghetti Pomodoro Mung biryani Cabbage and pickle curry Cucumber raita Ice cream	Dinner Minestrone soup  Salad bar Chicken Cacciatore with spaghetti Spaghetti Napolitana Focaccia bread Green beans Roti Dal makhni Fruit pie
Saturday
Breakfast Fresh fruit juice Banana Choice of cereal with milk Brown bread and kaimati with jam, butter and honey Plain or masala omelette French toast, grilled tomatoes Hot milk, tea, coffee, drinking chocolate	Lunch Vegetable corn soup  Salad bar Stir fried Chinese beef Stir fried rice Stir fried vegetables Spring rolls Pineapple upside down cake	Dinner Cream of vegetable soup Salad bar Chicken tikka Paneer tikka on skewers Naan Jeera rice Achar vegetables Fresh seasonal fruit
Sunday
Breakfast Fresh fruit juice Banana Choice of cereal with milk Brown bread and mahamri with jam, butter and honey Fried eggs Steamed cassava, cow peas in coconut, grilled tomatoes Hot milk, tea, coffee, drinking chocolate	Lunch Cream of sweet potato soup Salad bar Garlic fish in coconut sauce Red beans in coconut sauce Vegetable rice Mahamri Fruit triffle	Dinner Clear vegetable soup  Salad bar Chicken wings Vegetable kebab Sautéed potatoes Coleslaw Custard tart

The Academy's dining services provide a varied menu throughout the week. We aim for meals to be nutritious and delicious and for mealtimes to be an important aspect of Academy life. We are committed to providing balanced vegetarian and non-vegetarian options for all meals.

Menu for 5–11 September 2016

Monday
Breakfast Cornflakes Scrambled eggs Toast, butter, jam Veg upma Chutney Hot/cold milk Coffee Fresh fruits Mid-morning snack: Chocolate muffin Jaljeera	Lunch Chicken khorma Paneer butter masala Palak dal Boiled rice Ragi roti Ginger raita Sprouted salad Fruit custard Evening snack: Veg pizza Samosa (residential) Grape juice	Dinner Seasonal veg dry Dal makhani Pea pulao Ajwain paratha Pickle Chocolate pastry
Tuesday
Breakfast Honey cornflakes Boiled eggs Toast, butter, jam Poha Chutney Tea Fresh fruits Mid-morning snack: Veg roll Buttermilk	Lunch Cholle Poori Veg pulao Laccha salad Mix  raita Icecream Evening snack: Boiled moong dal Dal wada (residential) Cold coffee	Dinner Egg bhujia curry Mix veg jalfrezi Moong dal tadka Palak roti Corn pulao Green Shreeded Salad Pickle Urad dal laddu
Wednesday
Breakfast Strawberry cornflakes Cheese scrambled egg Toast, butter, jam Aloo paratha Chutney/curd Cold/hot bournvita Tea Fresh fruits Mid-morning snack: Soya nuggets Lemon mint juice	Lunch Veg biryani Chicken biryani Mirchi ka salan Mix veg raita Green salad Jalebi Evening snack: Brownie Veg burger (residential) Milkshake	Dinner Veg niligiri khorma Dal lobiya Tomato pulao Ajwain paratha Pickle/green Salad Kesari phirnee
Thursday
Breakfast Choco cornflakes Fried egg Toast, peanut butter, jam Pongal/chutney Hot/cold milk Coffee Fresh fruits Mid-morning snack: Peanut butter cookies Fruit juice	Lunch Mushroom veg khorma Palak dal Pudina rice Chapatti Veg raita Salad Mango/lemon souffle Evening snack: Palak pakori Veg pasta (residential) Lassi	Dinner Egg roast curry Mattar paneer Dal mix tadka Jeera rice Paratha Green salad Pumpkin halwa
Friday
Breakfast Choco cornflakes Masala Omlette Toast/Peanut Butter/Jam Idly  Sambar & chutney Hot/cold milk Tea Fresh fruits Mid-morning snack:  Chana dal wada Mango juice	Lunch Grilled chicken with brown sauce Mix veg au gratin Cottage cheese croquette Russian salad Pasta with red sauce Assorted bread Trifle pudding Evening snack:  Vanilla muffin Donut Buttermilk	Dinner Seasonal veg dry Dal rajma Pudina rice Palak paneer paratha Salad/pickle Watermelon
Saturday
Breakfast Cornflakes Boiled eggs Poori Cholle Curd/Pickle Cold milk & hot Horlicks Fresh fruits Mid-morning snack:  Wholegrain crackers Apple sauce	Lunch Chicken chettinad Palak paneer Dal arhar Plain rice Ragi roti Green salad Curd Rasgulla Evening snack: Pao bhaji Lemon mint water	Dinner Nutri veg masala Dal panchratni Boiled rice Ragi roti Green salad Semiya Kheer
Sunday
Breakfast Cornflakes Fried eggs Wada Sambar Chutney Hot/cold milk Coffee Fresh fruits	Lunch Butter chicken Kadai paneer Kashmiri pulao Dal palak Chapatti Onion tomato salad Curd Carrot halwa Evening snack:   Cholle Papadi chaat Sapota milkshake	Dinner Chilli chicken Veg manchurian Mix veg fried rice Chilli vinegar/sauce Kimchi salad Fruit custard

Parents, faculty, guests, the Director of the Academies, Mr. Salim Bhatia and our guest speaker, Dr. Kweku Bentil, it is an honor to have been selected to give the speech on behalf of the Class of 2015. Not because this is an opportunity to reiterate all the wonderful statistics about this tremendously talented  cohort you see before you, but because I get the opportunity, as one of my classmates adequately put it, to express the feeling of spending approximately 115,997 hours for a piece of paper and a handshake.

Teachers, I would like to begin with you. I am not going to thank you right now. However, I will start by saying sorry. For every time we ducked when we saw you coming down the hall, knowing we were not going to hand in that piece of homework. For every time we extended that deadline so far that it became inexistent. For every time we treated the piece of paper we are about to receive as your problem and not ours, and for every opportunity to thank you that we missed, thank you for being there from the beginning and here with us at the very end.

Parents, thank you. Those two words come nowhere near expressing the gratitude I know that every single student seated in front of you feels. Thank you for the support, whether financial or emotional. Do not worry; the product of your labor is awe-inspiring. In front of you sit the pioneers of the next generation, the heroes who will shape the world and leave a resplendent legacy for decades to come. DP2s, I just made a lot of promises to your parents, your job is to turn those incredibly romantic notions I sent flying their way into reality. And while it may seem like I just placed an immense task on your shoulders, I only ask of you what you are more than capable of.

In two years you have overcome every single obstacle that the IBO managed to throw at you, even though I know you imagined they sat in a boardroom discussing how to make your lives as difficult as possible. Now you are at your graduation and I know a lot of you are probably wondering what it was all for. I sincerely hope you do not expect me to give you that answer. In fact I hope you realize that no one in this room or outside it can give you that answer. As cliché as it is to say, the only person who can answer that question is you. Why did you decide to do a program renowned for its rigor? I hope it is because somewhere inside yourself you believed that you do have the ability to do anything you set your mind to; which would make everything I promised earlier a piece of cake.

So if I have not made myself clear yet, the world is yours. It is yours to shape and mould, yours to save and re-vitalize or yours to ignore and let crumble. If there is one thing you should know going forward it is that you no longer have the luxury to sit back and watch. You had about eighteen years of your life to do just that and I hope you enjoyed it. Soon the decisions about the world we live in will be left up to you. Make sure that when you are attending the next generation’s graduation the legacy you hand over is one that you are proud of.

The way to such a legacy is of course no walk in the park. There will be challenges, but the greatest one, I believe, is the day you question how special you really are. The day you stop believing you can impact the world around you is the day that ability is eternally lost you. Do not let the world tell you what you can and cannot do. Do not subscribe to the bigotry and intolerance that runs rampant throughout the world, you are far too intelligent for that. Do not gauge your abilities by comparing yourself to someone else. If you look to your left or right you will find a classmate and a team mate, not your competition. You do not benefit from being better than the person sitting next to you. I do not often quote people because I am ambitious in that I hope to create a few of my own one day, but Ernest Hemingway once said “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility lies in being superior to your former self.” Thus the key to your success does not lie in being better than everyone but, and the administration in no way coerced me to say this, in having a growth mindset. Please do not be that dentist who argues you are more important than the engineer.

Be accepting of the people around you. You cannot hope to change the world if you cannot even begin to accept the people within it. We are different. That is a reality you will have to accept. Also, please remember when you re-shape the world you affect everyone. Every culture, every race, every ethnicity and every religion. It is a complex puzzle, remember that. You can only solve it if you understand it.

Do not your let your education amount to just a piece of paper. As the incredible sagacious Albert Einstein said, “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” When you read that over 8,000 people died in an earthquake in Nepal earlier this month, do you simply let that statistic ring through one ear and out the other? Or do you let such facts inform your decisions about what you want to do to change the world? Do not think accumulating wealth is the way you change the world either. If you think I am being dishonest then how about you consider that there are over 5 million millionaires in the US alone. There is a treat in it if you can name more than 100 of them. I believe you know less than 100 names because they have not done enough to change the world. Martin Luther King Junior died without any financial assets at all or a will, almost 50 years later we still revere him. In the end you deserve to have your name written down in the annals of history, not a checkbook.

Finally remember as wonderful as you are, there is only one of you. You are one piece in a seven billion piece puzzle. Try and fit as snuggly as possible, keep your elbows, knees and feet in a position that does not bother anyone else.

So as I conclude this intentionally overly verbose speech, I leave you with a simple fact. Those are crazy enough to believe they can change the world, are often the ones who do. So here’s to the crazy ones - we can disagree with them, hate them, love them, quote them glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you cannot do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. I hope that you are all crazy enough to do it.