ZOOM chat – Sunday March 21st, 2021
Dear All, These Zoom sessions are getting better and better. First these meetings have generated a few new faces each time. In the first session, we were pleasantly surprised to have Partap Grewal appear. This was the last time we saw him alive and it was touching when Pompey asked him to emerge from the […]
OCs Col Dhaliwal and Col. Wendy Dewan at BCS
What are Old* Old Cottonians are up to these days?
They ZOOM!Here is an excerpt from one of the emails Over the last few weeks we have been, at the initiative of Anupam Sachdev, holding a few chat sessions over Zoom. The first one had just about the four of us and the second one three weeks later saw the number of participants rise to […]
Thoughts on a Cottonians Assistance Scheme / Update on OC Ramesh David Sihna’s situation
Old Cottonian Ramesh David Sihna recently suffered a stroke at his home in Noida, needed immediate assistance which came forth swiftly and without delay via a network of OCs who have always been at the forefront in situations like this. Quick thinking, immediate collection and disbursement of funds, a personal touch, caring for the brotherhood […]
Some random thoughts – Indi Khanna
On the cusp of adding another year in my life I find myself, uncharacteristically, sitting idle at my clean-as-a-whistle office table. With little else to do, one’s mind does tend to wander. So today I very consciously gave it a free rein, allowing it to meander along down my 67 years, picking up little bits […]
Treasure trove of Photographs!
We have received a treasure trove of photographs [around 680]. This precious collection has been built by Kanwarjit Singh [Partap] Grewal over the years by photos he has in his collection, by those received from various OCs and some that he came across. Partap’s message and the gallery to his DropBox folders appear via this […]
OCA Canada Dinner April 2019
On a wonderful spring day, 14 OC’s got together for a sumptuous, swank, Indian Khana. Sumit Arora planned the event, with all the young bucks half my age. We talked about a lot of stuff about boarding, how things were different in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and in the 21st century. It is amazing to […]
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 […]
Spotlight on OC RAHUL GODRA
Jerry Godinho interviewed Rahul Godra [Old Cottonian] and has blogged about Rahul’s spiritualism and what led Rahul to startup “Resplendent Soul“: I realized that a lot of people were looking for the depths of Indian thought, but could scratch only the surface of it. I felt like I could facilitate their outer and inner […]
2019 Inter-school Alumni Golf challenge
Inter-school Alumni Golf Challenge 2019 : 5th April 2019BCS ALUMNI GOLF TEAM 2019Inni Bawa, Sunny Chaddha, Chotu Khanna, Prithvi Singh Nat, Chetan Singh, Prithvi Raj Prem, Niri Gill, Sanjeev Atwal, Ronald Das, Dimpy Mehra, Arun Seth.