The Playing-fields of Shimla
I’d like to share one true-life story penned by Ruskin Bond here, which I think is beautifully written – Sarabjit [Sabu] Singh The Playing Fields of Shimla t had been a lonely winter for a twelve-year-old boy. I hadn’t really got over my father’s untimely death two years previously; nor had I as yet reconciled […]
BCS Founder’s 165th Day 28, July 2024
BCS Founder’s 165th Day 28, July 2024 ..be it the Crimond named after the Crimond Church in the Aberdeenshire town of Crimond.. this hymn has withstood the test of time, the changing world keeps changing rapidly .. but yes…this hymn has withstood the test of time … always moving us with deep nostalgia; our voices […]
THANK YOU (1961-1970)
When I was five on the Howrah -Kalka-Howrah mail so small so timid so afraid so “mouse” my trunk was packed my bedding roll my attache case I said a million good byes I wept my bedsheets as the Howrah – Kalka mail went “ khatkhat khatakat”towards the hills.. shunting at Delhi Station connecting with […]
The 2022 Winter Christmas Letter – someday we will return..
..loads of snow over Swedenfrozen lakes in January..stubbornly determined long walks over ice I do trying to average around 13000 steps ..10km stubbornly determinedthrough pines those branches stooping low with the burden of snow ..stunning live beauty far far better than a photoshop postcardlooking up at the sky i see migratory birds in perfect line […]
Walking past those who’ve gone before
with such a hot summer here at 60 degrees north past mid way into the Summer of ‘22 the lakes are glistening, the river flowing with its usual flood, slack and ebb, the roads dry and hoovered daily whistling wind and gentle leaves, I could neither feel nor smell any advance of thunder lightning nor […]
Global Warming “Garm Dharti” / thoughts by [regular contributor of writings] : Vivek Bhasin
Global Warming – The New Yorker Dear Ma’am / Sir, Greetings from Karlstad Sweden A scantily few probably get to read your wonderful paper rag; I am ashirwaded* to read it as an attachment. With Europe going through an unimaginable heatwave with two jet streams having locked in the hot hot air or should I […]
The Evening I was brought down to my knees [The Camino Portuguese] May 14th 2022
The Cottonian Pilgrim Humbled.. The Evening I was brought down to my knees ( The Camino Portuguese) May 14th 2022 …the day was excruciatingly hot ..40C I had so far walked 375 km and was struggling to get into the next town Lourosa ( Portugal) My camino gear was very unconventional; no rain gear, no […]
The New Normal at Christmas and Beyond…December 24th 2021
Blue skies over Simla It’s soon a full moon Radiating the second flat As I sit on the benches and look at Tara Devi The last flickering lights of the train disappear one last turn a fast bend and into the tunnel and now gone.. to the other side.. life then was simple simon Less […]
Good Reading: Bonnie BHASIN
“ Dad” Mahinder Nanda Esq; Global CEO of the Male Shaver’s PLATINUM Guild & SUDOKU Wizard.. As a young boy at BCS there lived amongst us thinnies’n skinnies a couple of hairy rascal gorillas in both the Rivaz & Lefroy Dorms… one I distinctly remember was a chap, short stocky compact with a loaded bristles-forever-face. […]
Memories from the battlefields of Vietnam, R&R in the Korean DMZ and much more… – by Joe Joshi
I had to rework some parts of the full package on the fall of Saigon since I first wrote it for The Bulletin newspaper in Bend, Oregon, on the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.I ran a somewhat similar version, including other thoughts, on another anniversary when I was in Laredo, Texas, and for the […]