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Defining Father Pulickal

Posted on 2 November 2007 | 15 Comments
This article by G. Mahadevan (1987) was originally published in the NOBLES alumni e-newsletter of December 2002. It is republished here as part of the 9th anniversary series of posts...
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Fr Pulickal’s Four-letter Word

Posted on 30 October 2007 | 15 Comments
If you ask Loyolites “What comes to your mind when you think of Fr Pulickal?”, various students will use different words to describe him. But if you ask Loyolites “What...
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Father Pulickal – 9th Anniversary

Posted on 30 October 2007 | 3 Comments
Rev Fr Mathew Pulickal S.J. was one of the most admired, respected and loved priests of Loyola. Even though he never headed the school as Principal, he was the star...
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To Doon or Not to Doon

Posted on 15 October 2007 | 37 Comments
When I sit in Delhi and look at the educational map of our country, I do not find Loyola. For ours is a city school, not a national one. In...
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Why We Thought BOS Came Back from Nigeria

Posted on 30 September 2007 | 6 Comments
When Roshen (1989) sent me this, I could not resist putting it here. - Ashok Hi, this is Roshen, Ashok’s brother. B.O. Sebastian sir’s comment that he and Teresa madam...
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Loyola’s Nigerian Connection

Posted on 15 September 2007 | 22 Comments
At school, whenever we mentioned Nigeria it would have been in the context of a “new teacher from Nigeria.” And it would be a male, Christian teacher who dazzled us...
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Loyola’s Arundhati Roy: Anand R

Posted on 30 August 2007 | 14 Comments
Today 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...
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It Happened in Loyola

Posted on 15 August 2007 | 9 Comments
I invited Jiby John Kattakayam (1998), a master at retelling stories, to share two original, unpublished Loyola anecdotes for my blog.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...
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Phantom of the Comics: Vineeth Abraham

Posted on 30 July 2007 | 43 Comments
It 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...
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LA Fest: History, Their Stories

Posted on 16 July 2007 | 14 Comments
LA Fest 2007 will be held next week. How did this inter-school arts festival organised by +2 students of Loyola, begin? The story is recounted in ’10 Years of LA...
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School Magazine 2007

Posted on 30 June 2007 | 24 Comments
In school, you eagerly waited to lay hands on The Loyolite. Just because you left the school, why deny yourself the thrill? Download the 2007 School Magazine (.pdf; 4.1 MB)....
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Digitising the School Magazines

Posted on 15 June 2007 | 7 Comments
Yesterday, the 2007 school magazine was released in the school assembly. While trying to get the PDFs for uploading here, I was reminded of a mail I received in January...
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Deepa Madam Moves On

Posted on 2 June 2007 | 31 Comments
Seek another kingdom, my son, for Macedonia is too small for thee. It was the first school Assembly of the academic year 1991-92. A new teacher walked in late and...
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A Book on Loyola’s Transformation

Posted on 30 May 2007 | 26 Comments
Gautam Bhatia’s Laurie Baker: Life, Works and Writings, from which I quoted Baker last month, is not the only book that features Loyola. The school is discussed at length in...
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IAS Exam: 3 Loyolites in Top 10

Posted on 14 May 2007 | 30 Comments
I 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...
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Vivek Karunakaran: A Loyolite in Fashion

Posted on 30 April 2007 | 9 Comments
At 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...
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Bye, Mr Baker

Posted on 15 April 2007 | 26 Comments
Laurie Baker left us two Sundays ago. We left him a decade ago. Architect and builder Laurie Baker designed and built the junior classrooms that Loyolites grew up in, and...
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Loyola’s Original Music Sir

Posted on 30 March 2007 | 21 Comments
For decades, the Loyola school song has inspired us all. Today, I discovered the person who inspired the school song. William F. Sherwin. His church song Sound the Battle Cry...
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P.M. Ajayan: Science Hero from Loyola

Posted on 12 March 2007 | 19 Comments
For 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...
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The Birth of loyolites.com

Posted on 11 February 2007 | 5 Comments
Update: This post is now available as a podcast. [display_podcast] The idea of launching loyolites.com sparked in 2004. The previous year, as president of the Old Boys’ Association (LOBA), I...
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