OC Week 2025 at BCS
We are excited to officially announce that the Old Cottonians (OC) Week 2025 will be held from October 31st to November 2nd. I will be sure to keep you updated with more details as we get closer to the date. Best regards, Charu Walia Alumni Coordinator OCA (Bishop Cotton School, Shimla) alumni@bishopcotton.com
OCA UK : Annual Luncheon 2025
OCA UK Annual Luncheon This year’s annual lunch will be on the 28 June at 12 noon at Bombay Palace, 50 Connaught Street, London, W2 2AA. All Old Cottonians and their partners are invited. The cost is £60 per head. This promises to be a great occasion and I would encourage everyone to attend. Please […]
Newsletter OCA UK 2025
Old Cottonians’ Association United KingdomPresident’s Newsletter Vijay Bhalaik MRCS FRCS Dear Old Cottonians I hope you are all well. Another busy year has passed since the last annual newsletter. I have had the opportunity to meet with Old Cottonians in the UK and India and also attend the BCS 165 Celebrations last October. Whilst there, […]
BCS Crest / Badge de-coded by historian Raaja Bhasin
BCS Crest / Badge Every Cottonian knows this Badge and Crest from Day One at BCS. Many of us have looked closely, and probably figured out the meaning of some of the more easy to decipher elements. Old Cottonian and Historian RAAJA BHASIN had published an analysis for the School many years ago, and we […]
Website structural changes
The OCA website is undergoing a slight revision of structure, though all posts / articles / photo collection / etc remain intact, the visual structure is being revamped for a cleaner easier to navigate user-experience. We expect a no blackout / downtime occasions during this process. Any comments posted at any articles by visitors, might […]
The Playing-fields of Shimla
I’d like to share one true-life story penned by Ruskin Bond here, which I think is beautifully written – Sarabjit [Sabu] Singh The Playing Fields of Shimla t had been a lonely winter for a twelve-year-old boy. I hadn’t really got over my father’s untimely death two years previously; nor had I as yet reconciled […]
Happy 96th Birthday Mr. Goss!
We wish you many happy returns of the day Mr. Goss! Thanks to Mrs. Goss for posting a message on Facebook and reminding us! Gurrinder [Indi] Singh Khanna wrote, and sent this photo: How well I remember Mrs Goss. Motherly and so very caring. Ma’am, just want to thank you for seeing me the other […]
Camino de Santiago – pilgrimage 2025
Vivek “ Bonnie “ Bhasin 9th April 2025 The twin spires of the Cathedral at Santiago de Compostela are calling me again … beckoning me to come into the bubble of his special world ..his peaceful world … I have shed my bespoke suits, my fedora hats and the bouquet of that special tree.. I […]
Rakesh (Rocky) Chopra / Prayer Meet
Rakesh Chopra Curzon 1958-63) passed on at Delhi on 29th March 2025. PRAYER MEET Rear Admiral Rakesh (ROCKY) Chopra VSM (RETD). Sep 27, 1948 – March 29, 2025 Celebrating a distinguished service career and a life well lived Remembrance To Be Held On April 2, 2025 Wednesday | 3:30 pm Venue: Chinmaya Mission 89, Lodi […]
Jam & packed
For WE Buchanan and his Shimla-born son Colin, the quality of a town was defined by the quality of its public realm — a maxim ignored in Himachal RAAJA BHASIN As a typecast Parisian, with both flourish and conceit in his pocket, the gentleman’s opening statement was: “Don’t you know that man discovered fire and […]