Comments on: The Playing-fields of Shimla https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/ OLD COTTONIANS ASSOCIATION Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:42:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: admin https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/#comment-3140 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:36:08 +0000 https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/23/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/#comment-3140 In reply to Jagat Aulakh.

1947 it was that Lord Mountbatten visited BCS.

https://oldcottonians.org/lord-and-lady-mountbatten-visited-bcs-in-1947/

]]> By: Jagat Aulakh https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/#comment-3138 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:42:47 +0000 https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/23/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/#comment-3138 An absolutely lovely story, beautifully written. Although the words are merely descriptive they brim with emotion.
It must have been 1947 when Mountbatten came for Speech Day. I felt a grim satisfaction when the Provisional IRA did for him in Sligo in 1979.
Jagat Aulakh
Rivaz 1958-1966

]]> By: Gurrinder Singh Khanna https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/#comment-3134 Fri, 23 May 2025 14:21:40 +0000 https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/23/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/#comment-3134 What a beautiful tale and so beautifully written.
Makes me want to go back to all Ruskin’s books and pour through them once again!
Indi
Rivaz (‘1959-’69). 993 (Yes, the school number is etched on my brain)

]]> By: Abhishek Latawa https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/#comment-3133 Fri, 23 May 2025 09:44:26 +0000 https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2025/05/23/the-playing-fields-of-shimla/#comment-3133 Beautifully expressed, Sir. Thank you for sharing this treasure with us.

It takes me back to the dusty, musty, very scruffy days of our lives; when simplicity was at its best and admired. The school gave us an Omar of our own sorts, a friend for life.

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