Down memory lane: Mr. Tuli / Mr & Mrs. Shankar / Mr & Mrs. Roshan Lal
BCS Founder’s Day Year Unknown [between 1964~1976?] Dr. Y. S. Parmar [first CM of Himachal Pradesh] meeting BCS Staff. Seen in the photo [left to right]: Dr. Parmar – Mr. Anil Chaudhary – Mrs. Chaudhary – Mr. Roshan Lal Vashisht – Mrs. Roshan Lal – Mr. Gauri Shankar [shaking hands with Dr. Parmar] – Mrs. […]
Mike King: Another precious letter
Attached is a letter from Mike King’s father, Charles King, to his youngest brother Noel who left BCS in 1934 to move to England with his parents. He was a Captain in the British Airborne Forces and saw action at the Battle of Arnhem and was actually present at the Japanese surrender in Rangoon in […]
The Mike King letters [Mike King : the Son of “A son of BCS”]
Mike King a very dear friend of mine based in the UK is a die-hard fanatic of BCS! Even though he could not go to BCS his Father and Uncles did. Mike regularly attends the OCA (UK) reunions and stays in touch with me regularly, sending snippets of excellent news and information strongly focused on […]
When Friends become Family – musings on the Batch of 1970 – by Vivek Bhasin
Writings 14 April 2019 When friends become FAMILY (by a certain Lefroyian from the Class of 1970) It’s the 14th of April 2019 0945hrs Swedish summer time up in the cloudless blue as I fly between Stockholm and Helsinki on a Finnair Flight… I suddenly have this explosive surge to write a few lines that […]
“How can any Ole Boy forget?”
Early last evening I took a call from Arthur Jones (L 43-48) who lives in Cambridge to say watch BBC2 at 8 pm & follow Michael Portillo – Indian Railways journey – Amritsar to Shimla. Very nostalgic as both Arthur & I used to make the journey from Lahore (now Pakistan) along the same route. […]