OC Bittu Sahgal – Speaks at Aravalli Utsav
Old Cottonian Bittu Sahgal was one of the speakers at the Aravalli Utsav @ India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi on November 9th 2017. For those who were there, a great evening in the company of one of our illustrious Old Cottonians!
OC Vijay Stokes – “The Swadeshi Apple” article
It’s an enviable view that Vijay Stokes has from his family home, Harmony Hall. It crests his very own hill in Kotgarh, 3 hours north-east of Shimla, and on a clear day he can see snow-capped Himalayan peaks ring the horizon while the Sutlej river snakes through the valley below. Pickaxe in hand, and dressed […]
First Class Cricketers killed in World War 2 & Some distinguished OCs from 1926-1928
Dear All, I am taking the liberty of forwarding an interesting piece of correspondence concerning an Old Cottonian, Vivian Chiodetti who passed out in 1912. Please read the exchange of mails that follows this note. I happened to glance through the list of names from 1864-2004 http://www.oldcottonians.org/ocs1863-2004_listing.htm A quick read is interesting and lists some very distinguished people. For the […]
OCA congratulates Umesh Pande on his appointment
We congratulate Umesh Pandey, a Cottonian of 1990 batch, for his recent appointment to take over as Editor of The Bangkok Post as of 1st Aug this year. Way to go Cottonians. Three cheers!
BCS sets an example
Rainwater harvest by Northwest: How this school in Shimla has emerged as an example for other residential schools. Bishop Cotton School in Shimla tides over water scarcity by harvesting rainwater, setting an example for other residential schools located in hilly regions. Shimla school goes from students bathing every other day to swimming daily! Mathew Jacob, […]
Lopa & Greesh Ghai
From Vijay Khurana : Dear All, About two weeks ago, while on a visit to Bombay, I chanced to meet Lopa Ghai at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club. Lopa Ghai is the wife of our dear friend Greesh Ghai who passed away in August 1988 of a heart attack. He was 42. He was, perhaps, the first […]
OCs launch successful IT startup in Simla
We are pleased to pass on this news about two Old Cottonians, Vivek Parmar [Ibbetson 1981-93] and Karan Pal Singh Chauhan [Rivaz 1983-95; School Captain 1995] who quit their big city careers to startup in Himachal Pradesh. They are featured on the front page of India’ s leading newspaper Indian Express on December 26, 2015. Congratulations on […]
The CALEBS
Thanks to Robin Nakai who pointed us to Today’s article by Jane Caleb in The Tribune Chandigarh edition: QUOTE… Posted at: Oct 4 2015 12:40AM Jane R. Caleb Six wars, and the peace of Dalhousie An English woman recalls the journey from London to Bangalore to have a feel of India, then Bombay before her […]
Sandeep Mansukhani begins Mt. Everest journey
Time has finally arrived ….. Leaving today afternoon [5th March 2015] for Kathmandu ( Nepal) for the Mt. Everest (8850m/ 29,035) expedition north route. Keep me in your prayers for my health n safe climb. Subject to the comm link, I will keep updating my position on the mighty Everest through a dispatch, which will […]
SPOTLIGHT: Inder Singh Dhillon
Today is a proud day for our community as Inder Singh’s name is plastered on every newspaper in Canada. Inder graduated from BCS, then went to Windsor and graduated with an MBA from York (Schulich). He was the president of his class. He got a job at E&Y and is now being posted to Dubai. […]