Lefroy House 1954 and a table tennis game in progress circa 1954

Dear All, I am forwarding, as attachments to this mail, two photographs forwarded to me by Baldev Hundal. His comments are indicated at the bottom of this mail. Boring table tennis!! I had requested Baldev to identify the faces in the Lefroy House photograph. His efforts have enabled me to piece a little more in […]

OC Yogesh Gupta is seeking 1973/74 BCS Batchmates

Dear fellow Cottonions. I am Yogesh Gupta, a 1973/74 batch cottonion. Am looking for 73/74 batch classmates/colleagues from BCS Shimla. Wonder if you would be kind enough to provide me Phone Numbers/E mails of the above batches. Regards Dr Yogesh Gupta BCS-Batch 1973-74 Professor Of Ophthalmology, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, UP. Ph: […]

OCA Nepal Gathering

I am happy to report another successful gathering of our small, new and growing chapter of OCA Nepal. 22 Old Cottonians, few with their spouses, and our chief guest Mr. Mike King dined together at Le Trio Restaurant in Kathmandu on 14 November 2016. We had discussions on how to advance our association and our […]

BCS batch 1991 celebrate and give back to School

A PROUD MOMENT! The Batch of 1991 celebrated 25 years of graduating from Bishop Cotton School, and installed the tallest flag pole in all of Himachal Pradesh – 110 feet – with the Head Master Roy Robinson hoisting a massive 30’x15′ Tricolour. A band consisting of Jawans of the Assam Rifles played the Indian National […]

OCs of BCS 1965 batch get together at Villa Kalighat (Robin Gupta’s)

Though the day of the renowned Indian public school,modeled on the classic English public schools,Eton and Harrow,is now said to be over;even scoffed at by some;yet something of the fire of youth;some fine principles of loyalty,gentlemanly behaviour;someththing about the art of living with refined and artistic reflexes that we internalised at B.C.S, on Simla’s tree […]

OCA Nepal Official Inception

Dear Old Cottonians I am writing to you all today with pleasure and pride as our long-pursued aim has now turned into achievement. OCA Nepal is finally official! On 27 May 2016, Mr. Sukhinder Singh, President, OCA, accompanied by his wife and Col. R. Dewan, visited us here in Kathmandu and witnessed the official inception […]

OCA UK Newsletter 2016

Dear OCs How quickly our Annual OCA(UK) lunch seems to come around. I must really be getting older – certainly our younger members resemble more my grandchildren. However, there are still some tough old birds about – like Lance Jones in his ninety second year and still rooting for Arsenal – and that takes some […]

Speedy recovery Dick D’Abreu

We just got to know that Dick D’Abreu (Curzon 1936-46) has been very unwell for the past few weeks. He was taken to hospital by The Flying Doctor service to Perth. They put in a stent for his heart, and was sent to the ICU ward. Dick went  home 3 days later, only to have his […]

OCA Reunion (batch of 1989) : update

OCA Reunion (batch of 1989) By Gursant Sandhu – Ibbetson House I am so glad that I could make it for the Old Cottonian’s 1989 batch Silver Jubilee celebrations in Shimla, 18th – 20thSeptember 2015. I would like to share my experience with you so I have written this short article. Firstly, I along with […]