Vikram Misra, 1961-66

Just ran into your site through the wonders of Google - I just received a pdf of a newspaper clipping about the 125th anniversary of the old College. This stimulated the nostalgia circuits and I decided to troll the internet to see what was on. I was at DC from 1961 to 66, when I left grade 9 (standard?, class?, I don't remember what we called them then) after four years in Junior House and another in Senior. I have been in touch with a few of my class mates  - they would have been the class of 1968 - Manmahipal Ahara and Sunil Tiwari (Ottawa). Anyway, I thought I would drop you a line and it would be  great to hear from any of my class mates.

Cheers!

Vikram

Vikram Misra

Professor, Dept. of Microbiology

WCVM

University of Saskatchewan

Present address:

Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens

National Microbiology Laboratory

1015 Arlington Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba

R3E 3R2

CANADA

phone: 204-541-0056

vikram.misra@usask.ca

vikram_misra@phac-aspc.gc.ca

http://homepage.usask.ca/~vim458

Ranjan Sonalkar, Class of '66

Many of the guys of the Class of '66 have committed to being in Indore
for a reunion during DC's 125th anniversary, including Praveen, Atmaram,
Vinod, Pankaj, Santosh, Ashok, Roomy, Sumer Singh and I. If anyone else
sees this in meantime join us.

Ranjan Sonalkar, PhD

Ashwin Desai: 1940-1950

My uncle RAJASAHAB RAJENDRASINGH JADHAV of Deulgaonraja, Buldhana Dist. was a Dalyan (1940-1950),when only the Royals were allowed.He regaled us with humourous anecdotes of the school.Some of them are:

1.At lunch some boys emptied their 1st course under the table because it was always veg.&the 2nd n.veg...which would be devoured in no time.Mr Sharma the then H.Master had set the rule.

2.My uncle won the 1st prize for "DIPAWALI" in hindi & how....class 7th, 37 pgs ..no spelling mistakes...winning by 1/4 mark from the the runner-up. (Unthinkable in todays world ).

3.Mr Marchant,the then Principal was a disciplanarian par excellence...he taught Geography & Math ...2 subjects uncle always was no.1 in.

4.Uncle was brilliant ...he was double promoted thrice !!

5.Mr Miller the next Pricipal was afootball fan so much so even the slightest of drizzles & he would declare a holiday...urging the boys to play football !

6.During summer holidays my aunts would swim in the Daly pool...all because Mr Sharma was close family friend !!

7.His close pals were Prince Prabir of Bastar & Thakur Prithvisingh Deo of Dotria....&many more Nawabs,Maharajas.....

8.He taught Mr Kate ,Prncipal, Hindi...in return he was taught Marathi !!

  So on your 150th I'm sure the old boys must be in high spirits,in spirit,toasting to Daly College...on one of the playgrounds.

Cheers & God Bless & Good Luck

Santosh Naik

Dear Dalians,

I just bumped into this site and absolutely delighted to post my details and would love it if my contemporaries would contact me.

Santosh Naik
1123 West Kroll Avenue
Gilbert, Arizona, 85233 USA

email: swistar1@aol.com

I was in Daly College from 1960 to 1969 and would love to hear from old freinds. Of course I visit Indore once a year and am in touch with Ramesh Nagrath, Manvendar Singh Barwani, Tripureshwar,Shiladitya Singh Narsingarh, Sidi Shah Janjira,Santosh Mahalaha, Gautam Kasbekar, Suhas etc.

Ten years ago we were trying to open a ODA US Chapter and or a ODA overseas chapter. For some reason it never happenned or else I did not hear about it. I know there are several Dalians settled in the USA. I would love to re-start this process and see if we can organize a get together at a convenient location. Any interest- please post an email.

With best wishes to the past and present Dalians, teachers and staff of Daly college.

Sincerely,

Santosh Naik

Class of '66

This blog is beginning to look like a blog for the class of '66 except for Sunil, so, let us keep it up and get others that we know on it.  Hopefully we will get in touch with others as well and maybe have a get together for the 125th anniversary.

Atma Ram Singh

Hi,

This is Atma Ram Singh, 1966 batch. I was at DC from 1956 to 1966.

Currently I am based in Chandigarh, working for an outfit called Drish Shoes Ltd.

There are two other Old Dalians that I know are based in Chandigarh, Kalyan Inder Singh(Kelly) and Kuldeep Bhatnagar. We meet regularly. Others I am in touch with are Vinod Sigtia, Ashok Sigtia, Pankaj Pani and Sumer Singh.

Since once in a long while I do visit Indore I get to meet a few Old Dalians.

I would love to hear from you.

My eMail id atmaramsingh@hotmail.com

Ranjan Sonalkar--- Class of 66

Soon to be four decades since HS graduation.  But I guess it is never too late.  I had discovered this blog few weeks ago, but had neglected to post.  But then I got contacted from a classmate with whom I always wanted to get in touch and so that tipped me to blog too. 

 It is needless to add that I too have fond memories of the years, 7 to be exact, that I spent there between the 5 ^th and 11^th grades.  I visited DC for the first time in 40 years last August and enjoyed the visit tremendously.  The current Principal Kanwar Sumer Singh is dynamic and should do well to put the school on the national map of great schools, where it rightfully deserves to be.

 I have lived in the US for the last 35 years ever since I came here after IIT and did my Masters and PhD.  I would love to get back in touch with all my classmates of the class of 66.  I am in at least email contact with Pankaj Pani, Ashok Agrawal, Praveen Mathur, Sumer Singh and Atmaram Singh.

 DC's 125^th anniversary is coming up and maybe there will be some big celebration to give everyone an incentive to visit there at that time.

 My email is Sonalkar@optonline.net .

Update from Sunil Tiwari

It just occurred to me that I had neglected to include my email address in my initial message - sunil.tiwari@sympatico.ca

Sunil Tiwari - Class of '67

This is Sunil Tiwari from the class of '67.  I spent 10 years at Daly College from 1957-67 and have lots of fond memories from the old days.

  I am currently living and working in Burlington, Ontario, Canada but have been in Canada since 1975.  I work for Gennum Corporation as the Senior Account Manager for the Asia Pacific Region and travel extensively all over Asia .  I have 3 children (2 daughters and a son) and my oldest daughter just got married last June.  My second daughter is working as a graphic designer in Atlanta, Georgia and my son will graduate this summer and join the law enforcement agency in Ontario .

 

Two other old Dalians (in Canada) that I still keep in touch with are Dr. Sudhir Patel and Harpal Singh Benawara.   In fact Harpal lives only 25 minutes away from where I am and so we see each other quite often.  I haven't spoken to Sudhir in a while as he lives approximately 80 Km's away on the other side of Toronto .

 

Other old Dalians that I have exchanged emails with or talked to on the phone in the last few years are Ranjan Sonalkar (USA) and Imroze Chowdhary ( Canada ).  It is unfortunate that I have lost touch with my own class fellows but would love to hear from them.  Creation of this blog site is an excellent idea and I hope to see many more contacts soon.   As a matter of interest, I am traveling to Indore next month (Feb 12th – 22^nd) and will certainly visit DC.  When I last visited Indore in 1997, I met a number of old friends – Gajendra Singh Ranawat (Gajju), Narendra Singh Bidwal (Biddu), Ratan Singh Bidwal (Ratan), Dilip Singh Jobat (Prince) and of course Digvijay Singh Raghogarh (Raja) and I hope to be able to meet them all again although it is a very short visit.

 

Looking forward to hearing from old friends soon.

Praveen N Mathur class of 1966

This is Praveen Mathur class of 1966. I was at Daly college from 1958 to 1966. I have been in north America since 1973. currently I live Indianapolis in USA with my wife Pratima. My son Anubhav is 26 and is a currently a MD/PHD student here at Indiana University and got married this year. My daughter Anita is 20 and is currently a junior in college doing chemical engineering

I am currently professor of clinical medicine at Indiana University school of medicine.

I would love hear from my contemporaries I hope I hope I will hear from you my e mail is pmathur@iupui.edu . I would love to see our class to in Daly college for it 125 anniversary in December 2007

Devjeet Bhuyan, Class of '66

Hi,

This is Devjeet Bhuyan, class of 1966. So many happy memories and wonderful friends, but somehow lost touch.

I live in Kolkata nowwith my wife Mercy, and we have one son (19) studying in Sydney and one daughter (23) studying/working in New Jesrsey.

If any of my contemporaries are seeing this, I shall be delighted to hear from them, I realise with a shock it is now almost 40 years I left school.

Hope to get some responses

Devjeet

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