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If there is anything about my life as a boarder that I will remember in vivid detail for the rest of my life, it will be the Holy Week. It is not because I have any pretensions about being religious, rather it was because of the great Good Friday ritual. Ever since I finished schooling,…

Father Bulchand was a rare individual. The first impression I had of him was that he appeared to be bundle of energy. That energy seemed to come out from his stare which seemed to go right through you. He was our high school maths teacher, and though he was brilliant in the subject, he presumed…

If the SSESA exists to prod and egg the school on, then what are the school’s goals? I am trying to understand where the SSESA should be ‘helping’ the school. What are the areas that it has prioritized? A couple of months ago I posed the question to the head of the Bombay Province of…

Stanislaus Cool by Tony Noronha When I first arrived in Bombay in 1937, it appeared too vast to my nine-year-old head. I had never been in a city that was well-lit and abuzz till 8.30 pm. I was brought to the city by our Goan vicar, Fr Jose Remedios, after two years of kindergarten at…

Regret to inform all SSESA members that William Neelankavil, elder son of John and Volga Neelankavil ex-student of Holy Family High School, Andheri passed away tragically on Friday, April 19, 2013 afternoon. May his soul Rest in Peace. Funeral was held at 4pm on April 20, 2013 at Holy Family Church, Chakala, Andheri (E)