In the anthology ACORNS, twenty former students of a boarding school share a part of their lives in the form of stories, anecdotes, tributes, and memoirs that they had once lived as the children of the residential school they grew up in. From remembrances of the food served in the hostel to pangs of first love, tales of ghostly encounters and memorable matches, the variety of stories tickle and tempt the reader to immerse in a wonderful world of nostalgia that chronicles what were for many, the best years of their life.
Leaf through the book to discover pure emotions, surreal experiences, enthralling anecdotes, and grateful nostalgia, from people who are the ‚Children of Oak Grove‘.
Oak Grove School is a residential public school, owned and run by the Indian Railways. It perches upon the many hills that dot the old road trek from Dehradun to Mussoorie, in a tiny stop called Jharipani. Its campus covers 256 acres (1.04 sq. km.) of beautiful hills, with playgrounds, a valley and buildings, situated amidst local flora and fauna including groves of lush oak trees and troops of inquisitive langurs.
The school was founded by the East Indian Railway Company on 1 June 1888. The students at Oak Grove are predominantly children of Indian Railways employees, with 25% of seats reserved for other children. The school has three semi-independent wings – Oak Grove Senior Boys‘ School (commenced 1888), Oak Grove Senior Girls‘ School (1897), and Oak Grove Junior School (1912). The school buildings were designed by Mr. Richard Roskell Bayne, Chief Engineer, East Indian Railway Company.
With an alumni strength of over 5000, Oakgrovians are spread across every corner of the world, bound by the common thread of a childhood spent in this salubrious, green, and wonderful environment of a Himalayan boarding school.
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Oak Grove School
Foreword by Ganesh Saili Preface1. Unlearning The Queen’s English ~ Sweta Srivastava Vikram2. The Architecture of Solitude~Tabish Nawaz3. The Sighting ~ Manoj Panikkar4. First Love~ Gary Senger
5. Traveling to Oak Grove~ Shrikant Avi6. 8 Years In Lockdown~ Priyanka Pandey7. Big Ma’am~ Nikhil Kumar8. Singing Siblings~ Kanishka Mallick9. The Secret No More ~ Amit Suri10. The Scream~ Nitin Dubey11. The Damn Dictation~ Sudip Bajpai12. The House of Cards~ Vikas Chandra13. Rice Shoup & Bater Mutton~ Raghu Menon14. The Day That Was~ Mangu Srinivas15. Mumps, Birds & the Bees~ Raveesh Gupta16. The Accidental Goalkeeper ~ Prabhat Ranjan17. A Tale of Two School Masters~ Patrick John Lear Corbett18. School Across The Valley~Vani Raj19. The Reunion~ Anurag Sinha20. Nostalgia 1959~ Vipin Sehgal Honour Board Acknowledgements Afterword
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Amit Suri is a creative person at heart with interests in literature, art, sociology and animal behaviour. Professionally, he co-owns and runs a Design Studio in Mumbai after a career in Merchant Navy and thereafter as Management Consultant. In his free time, he likes to mend broken or discarded stuff, recycle used things purposefully, and discuss details outside his professional or personal interests. He spends his days managing his studio, raising his two kids, discovering off beat places on bike or by road trips. When possible, he likes to draw, read and write on topics around his personal interests.
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