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For $200, Even This Man Can Be Silenced

Posted on 1 May 2012 | No Comments
Sreenath Sreenivasan (1987) now wants us to pay to keep him quiet. This is a fund-raiser for scholarships at Columbia University. “A few years ago, Dean Sree was known for...
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Santosh Sivan Enters the Top League

Posted on 28 April 2012 | 1 Comment
Santosh Sivan (1976) has become an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers. The club is international (despite the ‘American’ title) and entry is only by invitation from peers....
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Schooling worldviews

Posted on 17 April 2012 | No Comments
In the past year, two politicians who studied in Loyola — Shibu Baby John (1978) and Anoop Jacob (1995) — have become Ministers in the Kerala government. It would be...
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Scooping happiness in school

Posted on 15 April 2012 | 1 Comment
Q. When and where were you happiest? A. In school. Money had a lot of value then. We knew how to get the best from the limited money we got....
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A Loyolite in the House of Lords

Posted on 2 November 2010 | 16 Comments
Karan Faridoon Bilimoria (Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea) studied at Loyola School, Trivandrum in the late 1960s. At the age of eight, he attended Loyola, “a typically strict Jesuit school where...
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School Magazine 2010

Posted on 30 September 2010 | No Comments
Download the PDF version of The Loyolite 2010. Complete Zipped (51 MB) Pages 01-15 (7.4 MB) Pages 16-25 (4.3 MB) Pages 26-36 (5.0 MB) Pages 37-43 (6.6 MB) Pages 44-50...
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The Good Doctor: Regi M. George

Posted on 27 July 2010 | 12 Comments
The best of Loyolites is also the least known to us. Meet Regi M. George (1975 ISC). By now, his work has been celebrated in India’s mainstream media: in Reader’s...
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An Artful Update

Posted on 30 March 2010 | 4 Comments
Time flies. So do celebrities. Here’s a quick update on celebrity Loyolites I’ve interviewed for this blog. The thing about celebrities is that they are repeatedly in the news. Still,...
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Fr Kuruvila Cherian, Former Principal, Dies at 68

Posted on 7 March 2010 | 40 Comments
Fr Kuruvila Cherian SJ, former Principal of Loyola School, died in British Guyana yesterday, confirmed a source at the headquarters of Kerala Jesuits. Born on 18 July 1941, Fr Cherian...
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Back to School

Posted on 28 February 2010 | 7 Comments
An old boy who visits Loyola School is always greeted with affection, whatever his station in life. On arrival, you are glided into small talk by a priest or staff...
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