Blog by Jerry Godinho

OLD COTTONIAN Jerry Godinho : I graduated from Bishop Cotton School, did my undergrad from Hotel Management School, Les Roches in Bluche, Switzerland and have an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. My goal and motivation with this blog are to help people live a balanced life in the 21st century. I believe that Faith, […]

Newest book by Ravi Rikhye

Ravi Rikhye Curzon 1962 batch needs no introduction to many OCs. For those who are reading about him for the first time, here is what he has to say in the Introduction of his latest book “Analysis of India’s Ability to Fight a 2-front War 2018” : I’ve spent 58-years studying defense, either full-time or […]

Robin Gupta – book launch at Chandigarh

Dear Friends in the Tri city of Chandigarh Panchkula and Mohali; now Zirakpur too, I look forward to meeting you at the launch of my book titled ‘ The 70th Milestone ‘ on October the 1st , tomorrow, at the Chandigarh Press Club at 5.30 p m. Will be very happy to meet old Cottonians […]

On the WAY, the PATH, on the Camino to Santiago de Compostela

Vivek Bhasin : Extracts from my incredible 350 kilometers walk on the Camino Frances  “On the WAY, the PATH, on the Camino to Santiago de Compostela” 20 April 2018-02 May 2018Galicia, an autonomous community in Spain’s northwest, is a verdant region with an Atlantic coastline. The cathedral of regional capital Santiago de Compostela is the […]

Vivek Bhasin writes again “Dear Headmaster Sir”

Good Evening to you. It’s late at night and I shiver with excitement ( the crispness of November adds a zest of life running through my body..)sitting on my bed in the Sixth Form cubicle writing to you.. It’s surely is the last day of the year or sooner than later it is.. I stare […]

The Great Himalaya and Our Bishop Cotton School

The Great Himalaya No other range can match the lofty grandeur, the immense heights and the diversity in flora and fauna from the foothills to Kanchenjunga , to Mount Kailash to Mount Everest to Bishop Cotton School….. which is at a mere 2300 metres or so but its perch, its architectural and geographical position were […]

Mirrored Reflections and Reflections of the Soul

Mirrored Reflections and Reflections of the Soul From the very instant I arrived in this world way way back, yesterday felt like yesterday. Many I met along the road were mere travelers and others with whom I cemented relationships; at least I tried to, but heavy landings on the runway did bring cracks which again need […]

We congratulate RUSKIN BOND

Congratulations to Ruskin Bond (class of 1952) on receiving the Padma Bhushan award.  All OC’s should feel proud of his remarkable achievement.  This follows a Padma Shri award that he received in 1999. Photo from “The Indian Express”

“They don’t kiss in the movies” – chapter 1

I had written a novel “They don’t kiss in the movies“.  It talks of my first two weeks at BCS in 1948.  The book is self-published and is available only through me. Here is chapter I. The book is a love story, set in India in the early 1950s. It was a time of innocence […]