Letters from Gay Niblett and Peter Stringer / OCA UK
Thank you for all your information, keeping us up-to-date with the various Chapters in India. It is good to hear how well they are flourishing, keeping the spirit of BCS burning strong. I am adding two reports from Peter Stringer, now retired, long-standing Hon. Secretary and myself. Please keep the information flowing. Both the old […]
Letter from Indira Joshi, on the recent OCA UK meet
I was invited to a BCS reunion last Saturday. It was a lovely lunch at the Bombay Brasserie in Kensington. There were old students from 1935 onward. The Hindi teacher came with greetings from the headmaster and gave a very moving speech and they sang your school song. It was very nostalgic and moving, brought tears to […]
The Mitre, issues from 1956
A letter from Vijay Khurana, and some of the email exchanges as a result of : Dear All Our mother passed away about two months ago and that process of clearing her belongings is still in progress. Among her papers is a small treasure of letters and other bits which were seemingly inconsequential but have now taken […]
Recent OCA Meet
Dear Gursant : It was wonderful to be there last Saturday among you all and to savour the flavour of such a fine get together. Apart from the lovely arrangements and the cuisine, what was more to be appreciated was the visible hard work and dedication with which both you and Kuljinder have, socially, welded together […]
We congratulate RUSKIN BOND
Congratulations to Ruskin Bond (class of 1952) on receiving the Padma Bhushan award. All OC’s should feel proud of his remarkable achievement. This follows a Padma Shri award that he received in 1999. Photo from “The Indian Express”
BCS Won the SLATER DEBATES 2014
XIX Revd. Dr. Slater English Debates 2014 Finals Bishop Cotton School wins XIX Revd. Slater English debates 2014 Participating Teams: La Martiniere Girls, Lucknow La Martiniere Boys College, Lucknow Mayo College, Ajmer MayoCollege for Girls’ The Doon School, Dehradun St.JamesSchool, Kolkata Auckland House School, Shimla The SriRamSchool, Gurgaon Vasant Valley School, New Delhi The Aitchison […]
Lance Jones celebrates his 90th birthday
4th January 2014 at the open invitation for all Old Cottonians UK to celebrate the 90th birthday party of Lance Jones (L 35-39), wife of late Bobby Reed (R 41-46) Sheila, Maggie & I attended with a large gathering of his relatives and friends in the local pub at Pirton, HERTS. Daughter Lorna and son […]
Huppy Grewal of 1963 Batch at Mt. Abu
Prabhsharan Singh Kang and his wife had been to Mt. Abu as guests of the CRPF’s Internal Security Academy. While doing the rounds of the campus and buildings (which for nearly a century used to be the Lawrence School, Mt. Abu) they saw the honours board, with Huppy’s name as the best officer in 1972 in Outdoor activities. […]
School days stories / David Mitchell
In March, 1941, when I was 7 years old, Bill and I had to go away to boarding school at Bishop Cotton’s School in Simla. My mother took us on the first journey by train to Calcutta, an overnight stay in a hotel and then two days of trains up the Ganges valley to Delhi, […]
School days stories / Richard D’Abreu – Peter Maidment – Jim Lee
Here are the stories of : – Richard D’Abreu – Peter Maidment – Jim Lee as a bit of nostalgia of their school days. → Richard D’Abreu: Peter Maidment, Jim Lee and I have been corresponding by email and chatting on Skype for about three years and we decided that it would be a great […]