Your best friend, Avinash C Chopra was my first cousin. It was his presence that prompted my mother to send the four of us to BCS. My youngest brother finished from BCS in 1972.

Small correction. A C Chopra’s father was not a doctor but an accomplished and successful businessman in Calcutta, who unfortunately died early.

Avinash’s wife and older daughter live in Bombay while the younger girl and her husband are settled in New Jersey. Had AC been alive he would have been most happy to see his girls so well settled.

I have some photographs of AC and will be happy to share them with you if you will be kind enough to send me your address. My e-mail is vk@devats.com

Finally a lovely piece and a lot of the customs were still in place when we passed out in 1963 !!

My kind regards

Sincerely,

Vijay Khurana
Lefroy 1954-63

Thank you, Mr. Stringer for putting these accounts of our school life for for all posterity and future generations.

Karan Pal Singh Chauhan
Rivaz (1983-95)

Thank you, Mr. Stringer for putting these accounts of our school life for for all posterity and future generations.
Karan Pal Singh Chauhan
Rivaz (1983-95)

I have read your post with great interest. Brilliantly written.

I would like to send you and some of your fellow OC’s in the UK, a few complimentary copies of my first fiction novel, “Retribution by Proxy.” The story line involves two sets of OC’s, one set from the late twenties/early 30’s, and the other set from the mid 50’s, who come face to face to solve a double murder and an abduction of a little girl around the time of the Quetta earthquake in 1935. A lot of the early part of the story starts in Simla, and then ends with the climax at a re-union in1963 at the school. It is an interesting story, which is very nicely reviewed by a UK reader (given below).

The book is currently on Amazon’s Kindle in the digital format, but very soon, I will get the paper-back edition as well.

I would appreciate receiving an address in the UK to which I can send the aforementioned copies of the book..

Warm Regards, and My Best Wishes,

Surinder S. Ahluwalia (Ibbetson – 1952-1956)

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4.0 out of 5 starsRetribution by Proxy
By Mrs Jablonski on 22 Sept. 2016
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I have just finished reading this author’s first novel. It is an interesting story, well written and set in areas and times which many of us still remember. It is a very credible story set in pre and post Partition India and Pakistan and also in the UK and USA. The story is well paced and the characters large as life You get so involved that at times it is hard to put the book down. Although you more or less know that the ending will be a “happy” one you still want to see how it evolves and occurs and how the denouement of the rogue Colonel Pickering is achieved. I loved the scenes set in Simla – the author patently knows the Simla of the 60s as I do – having been a teacher in Loreto Convent, Tara Hall in the years 1964 and 1965. The roads and haunts are familiar as are the journeys to and from Simla by “toy” train and taxi – they are well described. Having said that, this story is for ANYONE who enjoys a good read with short fast paced chapters and a heady mix of history, mystery, sleuthing and romance!