OCs Week 2025 : Final Itinerary
BCS 166th Year OCs Week at Bishop Cotton School Simla Oct 31st ~ Nov 2nd 2025. The final itinerary is attached here: Itinerary-OC Week 25 Or click below image files for a full screen view: ♦️For any further information or clarification please contact Ms. Charu Walia / OCs coordinator at BCS alumni@bishopcotton.com
BISHOP COTTON SCHOOL SIMLA – OC Week 2025
BISHOP COTTON SCHOOL SIMLA – OC Week 202531st Oct – 2nd Nov 2025 24 OCT UPATE: Click here for the Final Itinerary for the OCs Week Celebrations and Events Full details below: REGISTER HERE Click on these next 6 thumbnails for a full view:
BCS 166th Founder’s Day
166th Founder’s Day – Monday 28th July 2025 PROGRAMME Chief Guest: The Rt. Rev. Manoj Charan – Chairman, Board of Governors, Bishop – Diocese of Amritsar (CNI) & Acting Deputy Moderator (CNI Synod) Arrival of the Chief Guest – 9:30 a.m. Laying of Wreaths at the Founder’s Bust – 9:35 a.m. Introduction of Chief Guest […]
OC Week 2025 at BCS
We are excited to officially announce that the Old Cottonians (OC) Week 2025 will be held from October 31st to November 2nd. I will be sure to keep you updated with more details as we get closer to the date. Best regards, Charu Walia Alumni Coordinator OCA (Bishop Cotton School, Shimla) alumni@bishopcotton.com
BCS Crest / Badge de-coded by historian Raaja Bhasin
BCS Crest / Badge Every Cottonian knows this Badge and Crest from Day One at BCS. Many of us have looked closely, and probably figured out the meaning of some of the more easy to decipher elements. Old Cottonian and Historian RAAJA BHASIN had published an analysis for the School many years ago, and we […]
The Playing-fields of Shimla
I’d like to share one true-life story penned by Ruskin Bond here, which I think is beautifully written – Sarabjit [Sabu] Singh The Playing Fields of Shimla t had been a lonely winter for a twelve-year-old boy. I hadn’t really got over my father’s untimely death two years previously; nor had I as yet reconciled […]
Vivek Bhasin [BCS Batch 1970] appointed to BCS Board of Governors
This message received from Vivek Bhasin, is quoted below: The BCS Board of Governors meeting at India International Centre New Delhi, I was appointed as Governor.. this has been a colossal task, a frustrating and tiring journey with bends, hoops, boulders and obstacles but persistence and perseverance made it possible..I am very pleased, grateful..I wish […]
Special Postal Cover: BCS 165TH Year
Special Postal Cover issued by Department of Posts Himachal Circle commemorating Bishop Cotton School’s 165 years of excellence in education. Transcript: BCS 165th Located in the heart of the Shimla Hills, Himachal Pradesh, Bishop Cotton School was founded by Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton on 28 July 1859. This is a boarding School for boys […]
BCS Pegasus to publish your Poetry
Raaja Bhasin sent in this message : School is coming out with a special issue of ‘Pegasus’ with poems written by Cottonians while they were in school. So far, very few OCs have come forward with what they had written and published in Pegasus, the Mitre or the Cottonian. Needless to say, there is a […]
Celebrating 165 years of Educational Excellence – October 18 & 19 2024
Bishop Cotton School Shimla (BCS), founded in 1859 by Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, stands as one of the world’s oldest public schools in Asia for boys. Bishop Cotton School is high profile and has been ranked among the best boys-only residential schools of India by media such as The Times of India, Outlook, Education […]