SOUL WARRIOR

SOUL WARRIOR A Cottonian who saw it all. ( A poetic lecture on the realities of life) ..and down the road you see him…. Amidst the destruction that happened all week long…bands of wasted souls wanting to find, search, seek and destroy the fine tuning of Mother Earth..some even searching for love amidst the madness, […]

From the wine country of Bordeaux to the Pillars of Hercules . . .

”from the wine country of Bordeaux to the Pillars of Hercules, on the autopista desde Gibraltar hasta Malaga” …The month of November in Sweden is a month of darkness, and for some, time to reflect on the setting of autumn and the onset of winter. It is that time of the year when the windows […]

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 […]

Phenomenal escape from a doomed SU-30

This message was seen on a FB Group posted by former BCS HM Mr. Kabir Mustafi: “Himachal fighter pilot gets Vayu Sena medal. By: Baldev S Chauhan August 15, 2013 15:26” Baldev Tiger Chauhan is an OC but also long time journalist. Balbir, Baldev’s elder brother retired as one of the top IAS officers in […]

Bishop Cotton School Shimla students scale Mt Deo Tibba in Manali

http://hillpost.in/2013/06/bishop-cotton-school-shimla-students-scale-mt-deo-tibba-in-manali/89052/ BY: BHARAT JUNE 20, 2013 00:07 Shimla: A team of four students of Bishop Cotton School have successfully scaled the 19688ft (6,001 m) Mt Deo Tibba (Mountain of Gods) – a technical peak set back in the Manali valley. A team comprising of Mahim Gupta (student leader), Sanjeev Sikri, Anirudh Dipta, Madhav Sahejpaul and Shubham Hissaria was […]

Yash Vardhan Singh best speaker at BCS Slater Debates, 2013

BY: RAVINDER MAKHAIK Shimla: Hosts Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (BCS) came out winners at the prestigious annual 18thSlater Debates, pinning down 15 other top schools of the country, with Vasant Valley School giving a tough time in the final round that ended today. For the final topic ‘Juveniles deserve adult punishment for adult crimes’ had BCS […]

Slater Debates at BCS Shimla

Top 16 Schools to slug it out at Slater Debates at BCS Shimla BY: RAVINDER MAKHAIK Shimla: Fifteen top schools from India and one from Dubai meet here to trash out debating points, starting Wednesday, at the Slater international inter-school debates hosted by Bishop Cotton School. The schools participating are Frank Anthony Public School, Delhi, La […]

“They don’t kiss in the movies” – chapter 1

I had written a novel “They don’t kiss in the movies“.  It talks of my first two weeks at BCS in 1948.  The book is self-published and is available only through me. Here is chapter I. The book is a love story, set in India in the early 1950s. It was a time of innocence […]