I remember.....

Baben, Latha kurien and i watching,in wonder, Butterflies emerge from their brilliant green cocoons, dry their wings and fly away from our window sill in the study hall.(we collected the chrysalis and kept them in our compass boxes)

5 scariest places at Cottons

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Nazu's scariest:
1. The green scummy tank that used to be near the auditorium (I plan to write a horror story about it one day!)
2. Miss Drayton's house (now gone and replaced by the auditorium)
3. The trunk room (now gone and replaced by the dining hall!)
4. Under the stage in the old hall (rumours were there was a secret passageway to boys school there but I'm not sure anyone had the guts to check!)
5. The tailor's room (mostly because the boys from next door would yell out at us!)

Sandra's scariest:
1. The toilets!! Need I say more...

Veena's scariest:
1. Behind the chapel
2. Behind Mrs. Marchand's room (there always would be cats wailing)
3. Inside the principal's quarters (some story about a couch that blocked a secret passage where lovers were said to have perished)
4. Near the tailor's (strange men calling out to you)
5. Under the old stage

5 favourite places at Cottons!

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Nazu's favourites:
1. The big tree at the end of the playground
2. The big tree in the middle of the quad
3. The canteen
4. The music room
5. The side door of the chapel (near Mam's room)

Leena's favourites:
1. The Quad....just the ambience of the place
2. The big tree in the middle of the quad
3. The porch in front of the dining room (wonder if its still there)...it had steps that provided perfect audience seating for impromptu productions
4. The Music Room...oh yes!
5. The school field when it was transformed into the School Fete!!!

Veena's favourites:
1. The big banyan tree at the edge of the playground
2. The quad
3. The verandahs of the boarding school. Spent many a afternoon lounging on the benches
4. The Music room
5. The old auditorium when we did the Christmas plays. I remember one year we hung X'mas lights the whole length of the auditorium. We all dressed up as shepherds and had to sing by candlelight. Absolutely awesome!

Another picture from 1979

This is another picture taken on the day of the sponsored walk for the International Year of the Child. If my recollection is correct, the banner was being passed from institution to institution on its way from Kanyakumari to Kashmir!

First cousins - all connected toBCGS from 71 onwards

OK these are (right to left) Pervin, Anuvinda, Navaz, and myself...taken April 2007 in Goa...all first cousins...Anuvinda was in BCGS from 1st std till 5th...she left BCGS in 1973....

all from the Varkey Family...good start at BCGS...do you think?

Get More Photos from BCGS

Sheela Mathew took this recent photo of Mrs Cherian, our Physics teacher...I am sure most of you OC's will remember her.

Thanks Nazu for setting up this blog...I will try and invite folks that I am in touch with to join up as well and when I am back in Liverpool, I will add more photos of OC's from my batch, taken in 2004 I think...and one of Mrs Molly Joseph with Yasmin and myself

Pervin, Akila, Navaz and me

Got together in Bangalore last month. The reason I am in funny red pyjamas is because I was sick. I don't always dress that way.

Class of 1980

This photo was taken sometime in 1979 before the class set out on a sponsored walk as part of the International Year of the Child

In this picture:

Seated: F1Chandra, F2Nusrat Shah, F3Amina, F4Veena Sadhwani, F5Rajini, F6Kalpana, F7Lalitha S, F8Geetha Velayudhan,F9Shoba M, F10Mary A, F11Mary I, F12Kalpana K, F13Hiriya

Standing 1st Row: M1Sandhya R, M2Roopa, M3Kumuda, M4Nalini, M5Jayanthi, M6Anita John, M7Sudha Kurup, M8Latika Bali, M9Nina Dhruve, M10Leena Athyal, M9Prema Furtado, M10Kajal Nagpal, M11Nandita, M12Anita Koshy, M13Jyoti C.

Standing 2nd Row: B1Sheela Nambiar, B2Supriya Hegde, B3Gowri, B4Seema Sood, B5Christine Marley, B6Tripti Sinha, B7Luxshmi Soundernayagam (head only), B8Vijaya Ramachandran, B9Nandini Doreswamy, B10Firdaus Hashim, B11Gayatri, B12Sumathi Bedi, B13Gita Sanadi, B14Brigitta George, B15Suja Philip, B16Ruth, B17Mita Panjwani (head only), B18Gina Ramachandran, B19Dipali Mukherji, B20Rajalakshmi D