BCS Crest / Badge de-coded by historian Raaja Bhasin

BCS Crest / Badge Every Cottonian knows this Badge and Crest from Day One at BCS. Many of us have looked closely, and probably figured out the meaning of some of the more easy to decipher elements. Old Cottonian and Historian RAAJA BHASIN had published an analysis for the School many years ago, and we […]

Jam & packed

­For WE Buchanan and his Shimla-born son Colin, the quality of a town was defined by the quality of its public realm — a maxim ignored in Himachal RAAJA BHASIN As a typecast Parisian, with both flourish and conceit in his pocket, the gentleman’s opening statement was: “Don’t you know that man discovered fire and […]

BCS Pegasus to publish your Poetry

Raaja Bhasin sent in this message : School is coming out with a special issue of ‘Pegasus’ with poems written by Cottonians while they were in school. So far, very few OCs have come forward with what they had written and published in Pegasus, the Mitre or the Cottonian. Needless to say, there is a […]

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 […]

School History and some memories….

Dear Old Cottonians Old Cottonian Richard [Dick] D’Abreu from Australia wrote in recently and has also sent in a few pictures, appended below. It was good to read the History of BCS, written up in so much detail. I was able to recall the part written up from 1936 to 1946, the accuracy of which […]