Ode to Bishop Cotton School – Gerald Godinho

From Gerald Godinho’s blog : Ode to Bishop Cotton School 1.2..3…4….5…..6.7..8…9….10…done. No. I am not learning to count. It is the number of lashes with a cane that I am getting from the headmaster for heading into town without permission. This was the very Spartan but strict disciplined environment that produced Ratan Tata, Editor: Kindly take […]

Sesquicentennial writings (Vivek Bhasin)

Sesquicentennial…( 28th July 2009) It took a while for me to grasp the word…prior to that all I was blabbering was 150th…you know 150th..you know..and stuff. I had just been bumped off, actually refused boarding on the late flight from Guayaquil Ecuador to San Jose Costa Rica all because of a lack of a Yellow […]

What Bishop Cotton School means to me

What Bishop Cotton School means to me….. The Year: 2009 Echoes of the past constantly enter my head, from the young squealing little five year old entering Linlithgow to the little chump and later teenager. Having finished my ISC at the tender age of 15 I left school in the sixth form wearing a rag […]

Good News, Bad News – Things I always regretted not to have done

Good News, Bad News – Things I always regretted not to have done (the last day of 2008) Let’s start with, as one of my crazy Chief Officer’s used to say to me..The Good News…….’’The good news you little Himalayan Monkey is that the ship gets in to New York harbour tomorrow…. The Bad News…you […]

Chronicles of a Ziginare……Gypsy……..Explorer…Bandit

…lets come straight on to the locale. S-S-Shave-Shampoo; all done, with Tuscany splashed across my back, I step into the melee of Manila. One has to be careful here as I negotiate bends, curves and blind alleys..who knows when  fleeting shadows becomes a real band of street kids…they can descend upon you in packs of […]

The next break – SECURITY

The next break – SECURITY …this isn’ta continuation of the motorcycle diaries..or the contemplation of the loneliness of the long distance runner….who beat all others to find his freedom to be a free sprit….nor is it another chapter after the Christmas letter… But one has to start from somewhere; from someplace where he left off..and […]

Rock’s Head

Rock’s Head  Vivek Bhasin (Lefroy 1961-1970) 2009 will be the 150th Birthday of our great Alma Mater.. My Brother Sharat related to me. one late evening…early morning as we drove back from a vino tasting session at the Chileno Ambassador’s residence, how BCS has its unique standards….we are a very elite unit….it was definitely British […]

The Fourth Day after The Full Moon

The Fourth Day after The Full Moon-it happened on the 29th of October 2007 Yes, it was all well planned …as has been over thousands of generations. A fast by married women who dedicate their lives, their loves, their bodies their everything for everlasting love for their man; their husband..toiling in the fields, sweating in […]

The run of Virgo

..I just received a flash …a tinkle on my mobile…. and the message came across…. ‘Good Morning, my love; hope you have a wonderful day’ The power of relationships in yesterdays world; feelings, thoughts and trains of emotions are sent across the globe in milliseconds..From Australia to England, from Japan to Canada, from Delhi to […]