Students Archive
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A Loyolite in the House of Lords
Posted on 2 November 2010 | 14 CommentsKaran 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... -
The Good Doctor: Regi M. George
Posted on 27 July 2010 | 12 CommentsThe 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... -
An Artful Update
Posted on 30 March 2010 | 4 CommentsTime 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,... -
Batch 1984 sets an example
Posted on 15 August 2009 | 9 CommentsKudos to the 1984 batch for planning and executing a series of efforts in Loyola. A news report last month talked of the batch setting up a nature/spices club donating... -
One Rocking Loyolite: Jishnu Dasgupta
Posted on 15 June 2009 | 6 CommentsA few weeks ago, Anand R (1993 ISC) asked me to write a blogpost about Loyola’s music stars, especially in Indian rock. The universe conspired. Within days, I received a... -
Elections in Loyola
Posted on 30 April 2009 | 13 CommentsOnce upon a time, the school leader was elected by students. In the 1980s, when school reopened after summer vacation, class leaders and assistant class leaders were elected (or in... -
The Club(bed)
Posted on 30 March 2009 | 6 CommentsToday, an LSE alumna’s e-mail landed in my Inbox. It spoke of an online petition by LSE and SOAS alumni disassociating those colleges from Varun Gandhi’s recent hate speech. What... -
25 Years Ago: 1983-84
Posted on 30 December 2008 | 12 CommentsLast year on 30 December, I began the “25 Years Ago” series based on school magazines, by writing about 1982-83. Let’s move a year forward and see what Loyola was... -
Long Walk to Freedom: Cherry Mathew
Posted on 8 November 2008 | 10 CommentsCherry Mathew (1995 ICSE) is walking from the northern-most district of Kerala to the southern-most. He is a member of Freedom Walk, a project led by Anoop John, who along... -
Saturday Night Live
Posted on 30 August 2008 | 17 CommentsThat night, around quarter past ten, The Policeman walked in, smiled at us, kept his two mobile phones on the teapoy, and pulled his favourite chair. He then did something... -
Choosing a Career
Posted on 15 May 2008 | 28 CommentsAs class-teacher of final-year students, Ms Deepa Pillai used to invite old boys to interact with her class. In 2003, when she invited me to Loyola, she hoped that it... -
Loyola Goes to Hollywood
Posted on 15 April 2008 | 10 CommentsI know I am beaten. Can’t ignore him any longer. For thirteen months, I’ve managed to run this blog without writing about Santosh Sivan (1976), the most famous Loyola old... -
25 Years Ago: 1982-’83
Posted on 30 December 2007 | 17 CommentsNewspapers like the New York Times and The Hindu offer a history section where they cull out news reports from the archives and present slices of the past. For Loyola,... -
Loyola’s Arundhati Roy: Anand R
Posted on 30 August 2007 | 14 CommentsToday I write about a classmate and friend who works on video software at a graphics processor technologies company in California. That, of course, is the wrong way to introduce... -
It Happened in Loyola
Posted on 15 August 2007 | 9 CommentsI invited Jiby John Kattakayam (1998), a master at retelling stories, to share two original, unpublished Loyola anecdotes for my blog. – Ashok A Long, Long Lunch Break There was... -
Phantom of the Comics: Vineeth Abraham
Posted on 30 July 2007 | 43 CommentsIt is a Sunday morning in Delhi, and there’s only one place to catch Vineeth Abraham (1977): Daryaganj, home to one of India’s largest second-hand book markets. Vineeth has been... -
IAS Exam: 3 Loyolites in Top 10
Posted on 14 May 2007 | 30 CommentsI dreamed of this newspaper headline a few years ago in the exam hall in Trivandrum, as I sat for the civil services examination, with Vyasan R. (1996) and Anup... -
Vivek Karunakaran: A Loyolite in Fashion
Posted on 30 April 2007 | 9 CommentsAt the Lakme India Fashion Week in Mumbai last month, Vivek Karunakaran (1998) was among the nine designers selected for the GenNext round, a group show where young designers debut... -
P.M. Ajayan: Science Hero from Loyola
Posted on 12 March 2007 | 19 CommentsFor a school that today produces engineers in droves, it is wonderful news that a Loyola old boy is one of the pioneers in nanotechnology. Recently listed by the Scientific...