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How time flies
When I say how time flies, I mean that literally. Yet it is as if just yesterday was the day that my mother left me holding that cake as she bid me goodbye in 1950. As if the cake would compensate for her absence. It did not and I promptly became a very sick boy…
That day in 1950 when I stood with a small cake
That day in 1950 when I stood with a small cake in one hand and with the other, I clutched my mother’s hand. My confusion knew no bounds. Why was I here? Who was this guy with the white frock? Why did my mother bring my bedding and that tin box with my clothes? Where…
My last day in St. Stanislaus H.S.
Many a time during my long residence at the St. Stanislaus High School Boarding, I just wished I could get away for good. From a small 5 year old among 250 boys (many were rowdy), to a rebellious teenager is one long road, especially with the hard knocks. But on that very last day when…
Launching and then what…
The launch is tomorrow and the second milestone of a journey that started early 2006 (the first milestone being the approval by the managing committee on July 10). Gerry has since worked tirelessly as Chief Technology Officer, Photographer, Host, Liaison Officer and much much more. Put simply “a doer”!! The pilot has given feedback and generated…
First Indian Jesuit university sets December deadline
BydenzilBhubaneswar, April 17, 2013: Jesuits, the schoolmasters of Europe, are all set to launch their first university in India. The campus for the Xavier University will be ready by December near Puri, some 60 kilometers east of Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa). However, the first batch will start from…
How I recall…
Since the last one or two years some of my companions from our days in the boarding, reached out to me. The first was Frank (is it the same one called affectionately ‘Butler’?). Then there was Joe D’Souza, John Carvallo, and now Philon. I guess we are all in our 60s. Joe D’Souza as I…