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 […]

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 […]

Annual OCA India Reunion Lunch, postponement

Dear OCs, As per the meeting of the executive of OCA India convened on 14.01.2022, it was unanimously decided to postpone the Annual Reunion Lunch that would have been held on 06.02.2022 at Delhi, until further notice due to current COVID guidelines issued by the Government. A  fresh date and venue of the said event […]

Bishop Cotton School — how Asia’s oldest boarding school is coping with the pandemic

From The Indian Express: Football season, a mountaineering expedition, a cricket tournament, an inter-school debate competition – these are some of the events which have been canceled or postponed due to the pandemic at the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, one of Asia’s oldest boarding schools for boys. Though students are attending regular virtual classes from […]

Mission Aconcagua Completed / Karma Tenzing Nyangmi

Completed. Here’s me at the summit of #Aconcagua (6,962 meters or 22,840 feet above sea level) after an intense 13 hours of climbing where we started our climb directly from Camp 2 with no acclimatisation. Due to weather conditions we had to change and complete our entire climb from Base Camp to Summit and back to Base […]

About an Old Cottonian – Lt. Sharif Khan aka Sharifo

J. S. Grewal [1970 Batch] sent in this very interesting excerpt from a book he is reading “The Frontier Scouts” by Charles Chenevix Trench, in which he came across a reference to an Old Cottonian – Lt. Sharif Khan aka Sharifo . There was an incident [1942] where he [Sharifo] was burying a fellow officer […]

Passing of Mary [Ramani] Varughese

Dear Anna, Thank you for your message which has come as a shock and a surprise. Emotions overwhelm you on such occasions. My earliest memories of Ramani, which is the name we knew her by until she changed to Mary, is of a little girl immaculately turned out playing in the garden just above the […]

Welcome message from OCA India President

TO ALL MY FELLOW OLD COTTONIANS: ‘It is with great honour and privilege, I wish to inform you that I, Justice Rupinder Singh Sodhi (Retd.) of BCS Batch – 1962, House – Curzon, have taken over as President of the ‘Old Cottonians Association – India’ w.e.f. 1st April 2017 alongwith my new team members as […]