The General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust

22/10/2022

The 18th General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Lecture will be held on Saturday, 5th November, 2022 at the Good Shepherd Auditorium, Residency Road, Bengaluru.

Our speaker this year is Dr. Aditya Sondhi - a designated Senior Advocate practising before the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Karnataka. He has served as Additional Advocate General for Karnataka and has taught and lectured widely. In addition to being one of the finest legal minds of our times, he is a research scholar, playwright, author, pod caster, and philanthropist.

Dr. Sondhi is an alumnus of Bishop Cotton Boys' School (Captain of School ‘93) and the National Law School of India University. He has a PhD in political science on civil-military relations in India and Pakistan from Mysore University.

He will be speaking on 'The Constitution and the Idea of India'.

The General K.S. Thimayya Medal will be presented to Air Vice Marshal Divakar Paul Upot VSM (Retd).
Air Vice Marshal Upot, an alumnus of Bishop Cotton Boys' School, is a decorated fighter pilot, who has extensive experience on frontline fighter bases. He has flown a number of jets including the MiG-21, MiG-23, and MiG-29. He has commanded a MiG-29 Squadron as a Wing Commander, a frontline Su-30 Base as an Air Commodore, and was the Commandant of the College of Air Warfare, Secunderabad.

The invite to the event is attached. Please note that this year's lecture will be at the Good Shepherd Auditorium and not at Bishop Cotton Boys' School.

Please do pass the word around to your respective groups. As always, our events are open to all, and we look forward to seeing you there.

Nec Dextrorsum, Nec Sinistrorsum

Warm regards,

Romil, Lokessh, Timothy and Karan

30/08/2022

Dear all,

We are delighted to inform you that the 18th General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Lecture will take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022. 5:30 pm onwards.

We have a superb evening planned for you. Our speaker is an erudite mind and an authority in his field, who will need no introduction. Our medalist has distinguished himself through his outstanding service to the nation.

Details of the speaker, lecture topic and medalist will be in the invitation that will follow in due course.

Please block your calendars in the meanwhile.

Sincerely,

Trustees
The General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust

23/11/2020

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your support during this year's edition of the General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Lecture.

The video of the entire event is provided below:
https://youtu.be/HEJaMc-6_E0

For convenience, we have also broken up the video into several parts:

Welcome address: https://youtu.be/KvoHmsB3ixI
The Tally Story (Part 1): https://youtu.be/ZrnhtAxn-vs
The Tally Story (Part 2): https://youtu.be/Xup_YJExFfY
The Medal Ceremony: https://youtu.be/RUeJJAiUEqM

The 16th General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Lecture by Padma Shri awardee and Vice Chairperson of Tally Solutions - Bharat Goenka (Cottonian, 1979). 12:00 The Ge...

07/11/2020

Socially distanced, but close enough to the action.
See you soon!

02/11/2020

We look forward to seeing you this Saturday (November 7th, 2020 at 5.30 PM) at the 16th General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Lecture.

Our Speaker - Bharat Goenka (OC '79) is the Vice Chairperson of Tally Solutions and was recently awarded the Padma Shri for distinguished service in the field of Trade and Industry.

In compliance with government regulations, physical attendance is restricted to ensure compliance with social distancing norms. We still have a few slots available for those of you that would like to attend in person. Do RSVP if you would like to attend.
Rest assured that all necessary precautions will be taken to ensure that you have a safe experience.

The lecture will be held outdoors at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School. For those unable to be present physically, the Lecture will be live streamed here on our page. Links will follow shortly.

15/03/2020

15/03/2020

05/01/2020

Dear Friends of KST,

Here's the invitation to our 15th Lecture to be delivered by Dr. Ajit Huilgol (1967, Pope) on Organ Transplantation: From Myth to Reality, on Saturday 25 January, 2020.

Do note the revised time and venue: 6:15 pm at the St Mark's Cathedral Resource Centre.

High tea will be served at 5:30 pm.
Parking is available.

As always, the event is open to all, and we look forward to seeing you there.

Best wishes for 2020!

14/12/2019

The 15th Gen KS Thimayya Memorial Lecture has been rescheduled to Saturday, 25.01.2020.

Our speaker is Dr. Ajit Huilgol (1967) - a leading renal surgeon with over 2000 transplants to his credit, as also a BBC award-winning wildlife photographer. Here is a link to his profile: https://www.columbiaasia.com/india/ajit-k-huilgol-0 His photographic works can be viewed at http://www.wildandsavage.com/

The lecture will take place at the Resource Centre at St Mark's Cathedral, St Mark's Road, Bangalore. High tea will be served at 5:30 pm and will be followed by the event.

The 211-year old Cathedral has been a sister institution to Cottons and since we were forced to postpone the previous lecture due to reasons beyond our control, we are happy to now be holding the event at venue that has much symbolism and aesthetic. The School itself was unavailable to us due to a packed calendar in January and we remain grateful to the management for its unstinting support. We are also thankful to Dilip Jajodia who had come down from London to deliver the lecture in November, and we hope to have him back soon !

Incidentally, the renovation and expansion of the Resource Centre at St Mark's was carried out at the parish hall in 2007 with the expertise of M/s Mathew & Ghosh, Architects. Its founder-partner Nisha Mathew is the daughter of Mrs Mary Mathew, who taught many of our batches geography at Cottons (For the project, see: https://ebuild.in/st-marks-cathedral-resource-centre-bengaluru-mathew-and-ghosh-architects-pvt-ltd)

More details including the topic, format, etc. will follow over the next few weeks.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Dr.Ajit K Huilgol Consultant - Nephrology and Renal Transplant, Director & Chief Transplant Surgeon - KANTI MBBS, MS (General Surgery), MNAMS (NBE) Renal Transplant Make an Appointment Dr Ajit Huilgol is the Director and Chief Transplant Surgeon, Karnataka Nephrology and Transplant Institute. He has...

08/11/2019

Dear All,

Owing to the announcement just made that all schools in Bangalore are ordered to be closed on 9 November due to the impending Ayodhya judgement, we have no choice but to postpone the Gen Thimayya Lecture.

We will announce the revised schedule in due course.

Thank you for your understanding.