Back from the Mists of time: YOGA COUNTRY? Is it? / by Vivek Bhasin

Back from the Mists of time: YOGA COUNTRY? Is it? …yes many moons have passed since my words adorned the sacred walls of the OCA website. Stark winters, killer summers, gushing monsoons( at least this year) followed by rivers of sweat and perspiration , body odour from men that would kill a skunk in a […]

“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 […]

BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE [at Bishop Cotton School]

The Best Years Of My Life: My parents settled in Lahore decided to try for my admission at B.C.S where a nephew of my Late Father, Rustom Boga studied in the late 20’s. I was admitted to the Preparatory School situated at Chota Simla in March 1945 and recall Boarding a train at Lahore on around the 10th March,1945 […]

BCS in WW2 – by David M. Wood-Robinson

I and my two brothers, Mark & Colin, were some of the large number of boys who came out in 1940 to spend the war in India with our parents; while Europe was in turmoil and even the defeat of Britain seemed a possibility. Mark & I came out with about 600 other children on […]

Bon appétit – from Al [Ashok] K. Stokes

Bon appétit – OCA Dinner. September 18, 2011 Five months ago, I was surprised to receive an email from Sukhinder Singh and Vijay Khurana to attend the 50th class reunion. I apologize for taking so long to reply. Firstly, I was in the process of moving. Secondly, since I could not attend, I did not feel I […]

The Collins English Gem (Pocket) Dictionary . . . .

. . . . (Latest Print  1967)* and ‘The People who reside within it’ * – By Vivek Bhasin On Page 209 ( Fray through fret)  lives one Cuneyt Erturhan: year 1995 This Johnny was a sprightly young Turk who made sure that whenever my ship sailed into the port of Gemlik, Turkey he was […]

A School Boy’s Story

I was a young school boy studying at Bishop Cotton School, Simla when partition took place. After 60 years I was invited to the School for its 150th Anniversary and I then decided to write about myself and the journey from Simla to Lahore made possible by the kindness of many from both sides but […]

“Ingredients for a Real Close Shave” – writing by Vivek Bhasin

Another good piece of writing by Vivek Bhasin: Ingredients for A Real close shave…… ..yes the Moon that evening was at its brightest; its closest in nineteen years so they say to Madre Tierra. Saturday 19th March 2011/1920 hrs. We sea dogs would called it perigee…..What a sight as I shot up the stairs off […]