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Yogen Dalal (456) Mayo College, 1961-1966. My friend Anvar Alikhan passed away on December 26. He was only 66 and a year younger than I...

Yogen Dalal (456) Mayo College (1961-1966) In December 2016, my batch of 66-67 celebrated its 50 th reunion during Prize Giving. This...

Dinesh Bhatnagar Mayo College, 1958-1967. On a dry cold winter morning in January 1958 my father and I arrived at the Ajmer railway...

Amazon: The Last Englishman, by Laeeq Futehally ‘To educate means...to lead out, not to drive in. The first problem for a teacher is...to...

An excerpt of a letter from Jack Gibson: October 20, 1970 Dear Charles [Clarke] -I had a wonderful time in Bhutan starting off...

Vijay Crishna (No. 366) Mayo College, 1957-1961 Here are some reasons for unfurling the Mayo flag at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Feb...

Padmanabhan Krishna Aravind (No.501) Mayo College, 1964-67. I was a student at Mayo from 1964-67. My younger brother, Srinagesh, joined...

Sirajul Hasan Mayo College, Batch of 1966-67. When I left Mayo in December 1966, I never thought that it would be another 43 years before...

Subroto Mitra Mayo College, Batch of 1964. I first met Jack on 11 January 1955—yes, that’s the exact date—when I arrived in Mayo as a...

Padmanabhan Krishna Aravind (No.501) Mayo College, 1964-67. I have written a paper entitled Sunsets, tall buildings, and the Earth's...

Arnab Basu Mayo College, Batch of 2000. I had the privilege to meet Mr. Gibson for the first time when my grandfather Mr C.H. Shodhan...

Saroj Kumar Mehera The Doon School, 122K, 1940-1944. I joined Doon in the first term of 1940, a somewhat self-centred weakling of 12,...

Arun Bharat Ram The Doon School, 36K, 1952-1958. It was at the end of January, 1952, when I went with my mother to leave my younger...

Ashim Mukherjee Doon School, 44T, Batch of 1958. It is difficult to write anything about JTM without first mentioning his love for the...

Mahendra Lall The Doon School,120J, 1939-1945. "Come here you miserable Booby" was Jack Gibson’s affectionate address to us bumbling...