Global Warming “Garm Dharti” / thoughts by [regular contributor of writings] : Vivek Bhasin
Global Warming – The New Yorker Dear Ma’am / Sir, Greetings from Karlstad Sweden A scantily few probably get to read your wonderful paper rag; I am ashirwaded* to read it as an attachment. With Europe going through an unimaginable heatwave with two jet streams having locked in the hot hot air or should I […]
Farewell speech: School Vice-Captain 2021 Udit Jain
Farewell Speech – Udit Jain: I still remember joining this institution in Class 4, where my matron helped me settle and adapt to the school. Then came a time when I was crying not wanting to come back to school but here I am standing and delivering this speech and not wanting to go. This […]
The True Essence Of Nature Conservation by Bittu Sahgal [BCS class of 1963]
Let’s get BCS to take the lead to start a Nature-focused, India-wide, public Schools Initiative. Sanctuary Nature Foundation could do this at no cost to the school, or to the kids. We already run Kids for Tigers a one-million-strong network that looks upon tigers, elephants, leopards and what have you as metaphors for all of […]
The New Normal at Christmas and Beyond…December 24th 2021
Blue skies over Simla It’s soon a full moon Radiating the second flat As I sit on the benches and look at Tara Devi The last flickering lights of the train disappear one last turn a fast bend and into the tunnel and now gone.. to the other side.. life then was simple simon Less […]
Good Reading: Bonnie BHASIN
“ Dad” Mahinder Nanda Esq; Global CEO of the Male Shaver’s PLATINUM Guild & SUDOKU Wizard.. As a young boy at BCS there lived amongst us thinnies’n skinnies a couple of hairy rascal gorillas in both the Rivaz & Lefroy Dorms… one I distinctly remember was a chap, short stocky compact with a loaded bristles-forever-face. […]
BCS 162nd Founder’s Day 28th July 2021
Up in the greens of Simla on a magnificent spur S I T U A T E D is an institution steeped in history.. As young boys we arrived with some trepidation some anxiousness and many not knowing then… WHEN.. time is finally up through the stone corridors the dorms, the classroom, the Irwin Hall, […]
Memories from the battlefields of Vietnam, R&R in the Korean DMZ and much more… – by Joe Joshi
I had to rework some parts of the full package on the fall of Saigon since I first wrote it for The Bulletin newspaper in Bend, Oregon, on the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.I ran a somewhat similar version, including other thoughts, on another anniversary when I was in Laredo, Texas, and for the […]
In continuation….
Sunday.. The quiet day.. I rise with the sun and hear a multitude of birds.. Is it the dream I had last night or the arrow that flew as Rush rushed past singing “The Garden..” I had butterflies in my gut.. weakness in my knees my body spoke but did I listen? Ever did? “ […]
Colts Cricket Team 1961 / and the exchange of emails about
[CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW OF THE PHOTOS] At the request of some with fading memories, I am forwarding the names of the team members of the Colts Cricket team 1961. I am unable to name the Thai boy standing. Please assist. Standing (L to R) Partap Grewal, Rishi Rana, Brandy Gill, Unknown, S S Chauhan, […]
3 Black Sheep and Me
A fantastic book on legendary School Captain – Hassan Agha (Ibbetson 1947) – who led the school during the dark times of the partition and had to leave BCS due to it. Written by his son, Jason Agha, the book primarily revolves around Hassan’s life and the countless adventures they had as a family, including […]