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 […]

Articles for a souvenir

Dear OC’s We wish to bring out a souvenir on the occasion of the sesquicentennial celebrations. We would like to print memoirs of OC’s giving reflection of their years in BCS. We request OC’s to write articles not more than one page and send it to us. We enclose herewith article titled “Thank you BCS” […]

Ruskin Bond – Memories of Bishop Cotton School

Memories of Bishop Cotton School At 75,  popular author Ruskin Bond decides to take a stroll down memory lane and relive a day spent with his father 65 years back.    If you can get an entire year off from school when you are nine-years-old, and can have a memorable time with a great father, […]

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 reading

A collection of  “Good Reading” articles in a ZIP file were sent in by Partap Grewal. You can download the file here [best to right-click the link and save the file to your PC for a faster download]. Enjoy!

Ah, English!

Sometimes, I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. We will begin with a box, and the plural is boxes. But the plural of ox became oxen not oxes, One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese. Yet, the plural of […]

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 […]

The DODA Chronicles – part II

Chronicles of Doda! ( Translated from the original Hindi by the author) Ibbetson House 23rd March 1961 My dear Mummy,   I have finally arrived in my new school! The train journey was very nice specially the Puris we ate at Barog and the tunnels on the way. I have to live with about fifty […]