The Great Himalaya and Our Bishop Cotton School

The Great Himalaya No other range can match the lofty grandeur, the immense heights and the diversity in flora and fauna from the foothills to Kanchenjunga , to Mount Kailash to Mount Everest to Bishop Cotton School….. which is at a mere 2300 metres or so but its perch, its architectural and geographical position were […]

Message from Peter Stringer / Obituary Ron Plunkett

I would like to take this opportunity to send cordial fraternal good wishes for a happy & successful Reunion OCA Delhi next Saturday. Would you be kind enough to add my sadness on behalf of OCAUK: Last evening I received a call from Les Homer (L 43-49) in Bristol to say Ron Plunkett (C 43-50) […]

Keeping the BCS SPIRIT

Wishing Old Cottonians where ever you are A VERY HAPPY NEW Year. Since I discovered OCA (UK) in 1972 I have attended every Annual Reunion under the Chairmanships of Dick Bayliss, Tony Sinha and Gay Niblett, Vivek Bhasin & Kuljinder Bahia. That is a proud record of an ordinary pupil of Bishop Cotton School in […]

Long Live Patina! By Peter Stringer

From: STRINGER Subject: 1943-47 An experience every youth entering a boarding institution carries for life. My entrance to Bishop Cotton Preparatory School, Chota Simla (1943) was alone and with tear filled trepidation. I had never slept in a warm flannel night suit in all of my 10 years. Spellbound and lonely I stood like a […]

Information on past staff and teachers

Gentlemen: I am writing an article to explore the qualities of outstanding teachers. After much thought and introspection, I decided to use my BCS student experience as a guide for analyzing the qualities of good teachers. Any thoughts you might have on what makes a good teacher would be most welcome—especially if you can draw […]

Vivek Bhasin writes in

…Amigos, Familia y Hermanos de Bishop Cotton School, Simla y Nuestra Ecclesia… There are friends, who you befriend when the shyness overcomes; perhaps you encounter another person who too is shy and as you make that eye contact the vibrational link makes the connection. You slowly shuffle and slide, and approach one another. Standing side […]

New author on the block (OC Surinder S Ahluwalia)

Hi Folks, I have now become a published author, though I have taken the route of self-publishing on Amazon Kindle (less hassles than with publishers). My novel can be purchased for a paltry Rs. 200 in India or for USD 2.99 in the US. It is also available in most countries of the world at […]

Spotlight story : Humayun Khan [Rivaz 1941-1947]

Humayun Khan was born in 1932 to a Pashto-Hindko speaking family in Abbottabad, Hazara Division in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). His father was a District and Sessions Judge at the judicial commissioner’s court in NWFP, which is now known as the Peshawar High Court, and his mother was a homemaker. […]

The Great Equaliser….

The Great Equaliser….. and a jog down the oceans of memory-a Cottonian hits specific lines of his Blog-Bloggers and all.. Confused .com ( Truthful Lies) Someone’s loss is the other one’s gain…Someone’s death is someone’s bread. As Heady said, it doesn’t mean if you do not hurt the lion and smile at him, he will hug […]