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 […]
An invitation to OCs of the 1960s. Read on..
And, do I have the time to read all this, when all I do is read the headlines in the papers! And that too, if they have a picture attached to it! No pictures here today, Pal ! [Webmaster’s note – We got one! The man himself. From friends in high places]: […]
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 DODA Chronicles – part I
Letters from Doda! (Translated from the original Hindi by the author) Ibbetson House 15th March 1961 My dear Mummy, Every Saturday is a letter writing day for us. I am sitting in my class of upper two and writing this letter to you. Mummy this is my first letter to you from school. Mummy, […]
Class of 1981 Silver Jubilee 2006
Class of 1981 Silver Jubilee 2006 All those who made it to the silver jubilee reunion of the batch of 1981 must have felt that same twinge of anticipation as I did when I set out for BCS on the morning of the 9th of November, 2006. I had arranged to stay at Khalini […]
Class of 1956 Golden Jubilee 2006
CLASS OF 1956 GOLDEN JUBILEE 2006 The following 22 OCs from the class of 1956 ( we were 28 in school ) contributed Rs.10,000/- each towards the Golden Jubilee Award for the all-round Best Cottonian of the Year, besides booking themselves in for stay at Eastbourne Hotel : Curzon: Ashok Batra, Anil Sikand , Ashok […]