Articles list

The  2022  Winter Christmas Letter – someday we will return..
“Living a Life” –  memoir by retired IAS officer Ravi Sawhney, (Lefroy 1959)
Seeing big in the tiniest of nature – another fab video by Sabu Singh
BCS is our School – Vivek Bhasin
Walking past those who’ve gone before
Global Warming “Garm Dharti” / thoughts by [regular contributor of writings] : Vivek Bhasin
Farewell speech: School Vice-Captain 2021 Udit Jain
The True Essence Of Nature Conservation by Bittu Sahgal [BCS class of 1963]
The New Normal at Christmas and Beyond…December 24th 2021
Camino Ingles – The English way to the Monastery of Santiago de Compostela … and The Eagle
Good Reading: Bonnie BHASIN
BCS 162nd Founder’s Day 28th July 2021
July 2021 Summer Writings of the macabre-Past Future Tense “ El Capitano? “
Memories from the battlefields of Vietnam, R&R in the Korean DMZ and much more… – by Joe Joshi
In continuation….
Colts Cricket Team 1961 / and the exchange of emails about
3 Black Sheep and Me
2020 Christmas Letter / Vivek Bhasin
John Long Gone Moved On..
That Green Hamam soap vs Head & Shoulders shampoo…
Mukul Sheopory, Lefroy  batch of 1990 has penned a book “Bucephalus’  Shadow”
Article[s] by Robin Gupta (1965 batch)
WITH YOU … I walk my way .. secure
Nostalgia / BCS 1930 School Party train
The Hump on the Road – by Indi Khanna
The Walkers – by Vivek Bhasin
SPOTLIGHT on Sabu Singh [and his Short films on Nature]
More than anger –  Vivek Bhasin
An Old Schoolboy
The Missing Sibling & The Saga Of Kartoo – two writings by Gurrinder [Indi] Khanna
A few more – from Suresh Sethi
Remembrance : Brig Rajendra Shamsher Singh Kohli [Curzon 1927-37] – on his 1st death anniversary
Take me….by Himār Arjun Singh
MY TIME AT BCS – David Wood-Robinson 1940/4
Batch of ‘04 – from Raghav Kumar
Sharing some BCS memories – Rohan Charanji [Curzon 2006]
The Dear Departed – by Ateek Gupta
My days at BCS By Nitish Grover
Some thoughts from an OC – Suresh Sethi 1961-66
The Oceans – by Vivek Bhasin
George Floyd and what is happening around – by Jerry Godinho
Miss Marie Bonnaud…The Boys from BCS
Dan Dhanoa COVID19 survivor writes
Some random thoughts – Indi Khanna
Remembering – by Vivek Bhasin
Lord and Lady Mountbatten (BCS in 1947)
The Wrong Doers – by Vivek Bhasin
Think of Happy Days
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining – by Nalin Sood
The “STICK IN“
Their Final Choice – was best!
Nostalgia, History / Batch 1957
Lohri!
Christmas Letter 2019 / Vivek Bhasin
He is a fantastic & successful Cottonian with the greatest of humility
A christmas letter to Mrs King sent from a prisoners war camp in Marienburg (Poland today)
A digitized version of “Simla, Past and Present”
Memoir of George Edward Lynch COTTON, D.D.
Gurmit S. Sehmbey’s 1950-61 BCS photo archive
Just one drink – by Gurrinder [Indi] Khanna
Through Fantasy and Gold… The Cottonian who never made it
Mike King: Another precious letter
The Suicide Slider Squad ( A Cottonian sees them – unbelievably true )
“REUNIONS”
The Mike King letters [Mike King : the Son of “A son of BCS”]
Part of the Soul Train – by Vivek Bhasin
“Chicken on the Menu” and “Angle to Angling” – by Indi [Gurrinder] Khanna
List of all registered Old Cottonians [as on 10/June/2019]
Karma Tenzing: Another Old Cottonian summited Mt. Everest. Congratulations!
An amazing collection of photos from Kanwarjit [Partap] Singh Grewal’s archive:
I never owned a pure Black Suit – by Vivek Bhasin
Jerry Godinho interviews Vivek Bhasin about women and  empowerment, among other things:
When Friends become Family – musings on the Batch of 1970 – by Vivek Bhasin
About an Old Cottonian – Lt. Sharif Khan aka Sharifo
Spotlight on OC RAHUL GODRA
Ved Seereeram – OC in the Spotlight
Respect, for OC Girish Minocha
For starters…. [from Peter Stringer]
Down memory lane – Balbir Singh
Letter from Mr. Ronald Goss to Vivek Bhasin
Gerald [Jerry] Godinho interviews Old Cottonian ROHAN CHARANJI
The Great Himalaya
For Us All
Blog by  Jerry Godinho
Christmas letter from Vivek Bhasin
Newest book by Ravi Rikhye
Dr. Mathew Zachariah – some updates
Bishop Cotton School Simla – on top of the world
Sandeep Mansukhani – Everest 2018 – UPDATE:
On the WAY, the PATH, on the Camino to Santiago de Compostela
“How can any Ole Boy forget?”
2017 Christmas letter
Vivek Bhasin writes again “Dear Headmaster Sir”
OC Bittu Sahgal – Speaks at Aravalli Utsav
OC Vijay Stokes – “The Swadeshi Apple” article
Robin Gupta review of “Mr. & Mrs. Jinnah – The Marriage That Shook India”
The Great Himalaya and Our Bishop Cotton School
Message from Peter Stringer / Obituary Ron Plunkett
Keeping the BCS SPIRIT
Long Live Patina! By Peter Stringer
Information on past staff and teachers
Vivek Bhasin writes in
New author on the block (OC Surinder S Ahluwalia)
Spotlight story : Humayun Khan [Rivaz 1941-1947]
The Great Equaliser….
School stories of the 1940s era
The CALEBS
Mirrored Reflections and Reflections of the Soul
….the treasure hunt to find my lost cufflink* (The Mitre)
Politics and the Works, alongside our Love for Bishop Cotton School
Mitre October-December 2014 issue
A Very Biased Christmas Letter from a Cottonian to the family of Cottonians
LOS LATINOS
The Mitre, issues from 1956
Recent OCA Meet
SOUL WARRIOR
From the wine country of Bordeaux to the Pillars of Hercules . . .
School days stories / David Mitchell
School days stories / Richard D’Abreu – Peter Maidment  – Jim Lee
Phenomenal escape from a doomed SU-30
Bishop Cotton School Shimla students scale Mt Deo Tibba in Manali
Yash Vardhan Singh best speaker at BCS Slater Debates, 2013
Slater Debates at BCS Shimla
The Essentials of being a Gentleman Cottonian and a Gentle-Lady Auckieite-Bedian-Chelsea Girl!
“They don’t kiss in the movies” – chapter 1
BCS introduces Scuba-diving
School History and some memories….
My pet rabbit and Mr. Goss
Correspondence with Mr. Ronald Goss :
Partap Sharma – Biography
Karen Ann Monsy interviews Ruskin Bond
BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE [at Bishop Cotton School]
BCS in WW2 – by David M. Wood-Robinson
Bon appétit – from Al [Ashok] K. Stokes
The Collins English Gem (Pocket) Dictionary . . . .
A School Boy’s Story
BCS Boys create sea-diving history
“Ingredients for a Real Close Shave” – writing by Vivek Bhasin
HOW DO YOU BECOME A WORLD BRAND?
Benchmarking other schools – by Vijay Stokes
OCA UK – Winter 2010 newsletter
A Sanawarian writes about a Cottonian
Bishop Cotton School Shimla is ranked 4th Best in India
Ruskin Bond’s latest
Love From The Sidelines – Mayank Anand
Four Pigeons
First Roll Call…
An OLD OC!
BCS: Some thoughts relating to the future
Christmas letter 2009 – Vivek Bhasin
OCA UK 2009 WINTER NEWSLETTER
150 YEARS OF BISHOP COTTON SCHOOL – An assessment of the past … and the future?
BCS Sesquicentennial – Collection of press-cuttings
Departures….
Adventures of a COTTONIAN
ROLL CALL OF 1948 (RIVAZ HOUSE) – PART I & II
Ode to Bishop Cotton School – Gerald Godinho
Sesquicentennial writings (Vivek Bhasin)
Indian Summer – by Robin Gupta
What Bishop Cotton School means to me
Good News, Bad News – Things I always regretted not to have done
Chronicles of a Ziginare……Gypsy……..Explorer…Bandit
The next break – SECURITY
Rock’s Head
The Fourth Day after The Full Moon
The run of Virgo
Passing the Baton