That Green Hamam soap vs Head & Shoulders shampoo…

Every couple of days I wrote on a little slip.. Hamam Soap, Forhans Toothpaste, Toothbrush, Cherry Blossom Shoe Polish, Boff and Face Vaseline.. handed the chit to Lefroy House Master Mr ( Baku) Malvea to sign off at inspection; then headed to the store room that lay adjacent to the Garam Pani Kamra to get […]

Nostalgia / BCS 1930 School Party train

We came across a picture at the OCA [Delhi] Chapter facebook page of the BCS School-party leaving Simla station for the “plains” – a photo from 1930. The photo is from the Estate of Canon Peacey,  sent by Mr. Barry Williamson to Raaja Bhasin and subsequently to Ashwani Virk who is the VP of OCA […]

Remembering – by Vivek Bhasin

R E M E M B E R… the day I clambered on the Kalka Mail aged five. Mr Das Gupta was the Calcutta party escort.. ..the train chugged in to Kalka and it was bitter cold the 1st of March 59 years ago.. We changed to the hill train and chug-chugged up through 103 […]

Think of Happy Days

Never before has a pandemic thrust the world into such a frenzy.    Nations, acutely consider the loss of life just as important as livelihoods and causing desperate economic measures for the future. It is just my feeling this may bring about surrender away from war & hate to global peace.      Behind all this […]

The “STICK IN“

The “ STICK IN “ Location: School Dining Hall Time: Sunday immediately after Breakfast. Action: Master on Duty asked to leave. Action: Close all Doors Instruction: “All Stand “..As silent ghosts Duration: Three Hours. Reason: Behaving like miscreants against the Sanawarians during the First XI Soccer Match ( we won 10-1), and staring with lustful […]

Nostalgia, History / Batch 1957

The above is a chart prepared by the School in early 1958 for the 1957 batch results. You may put it on the OC News-letter to remind my classmates how brilliant we were!! 😀 Note: all 4 Lefroyans are in the middle coincidentally! Dr Santokh Singh, Lefroy house captain 1957

Class of 1969 Reunion

The class of ’69s reunion story actually started two years earlier in 2017 when, sitting in my office one morning and looking at our class of ’69 VIth form group photograph, it struck me that out of a class of 29, 10 of our classmates had already gone to the happier hunting grounds…. …Classmates with […]

Letter from Peter Stringer

While I was Secretary of OCA (UK) for over 25 years, I regret now, for not being Internet connected. Slowly catching up with OCA web news I find to have lost opportunities to gather & exchange interesting contacts. Now old news comments & views from Mike Weatherfeild who was a class mate, in Prep School […]