A News Letter For The Kunjeyans By The Kunjeyans

Month : August To Oct Year : 2005

 Hi Fraternity

Once again a very good morning to you all. I hope all of you would be enjoying the festival moods inspite of all the odds in terms of natural disasters.

During the course of the last few months we have tried to personally deliver; The Life Members’ Directory-cum- Souvenir which was released on last Old Boys’ Day. Members residing faraway were sent the Directory By Post / By Courier.

We are quite sure that all the Life Members would have received their copies by now. Anyone who did not receive it please do let us know.

The countdown for the great day has already begun and lets enjoy the hospitality of the Golden Boy Gp. Capt. Suresh Kumar. Wearing of provided I-cards is mandatory during the whole day on 20^th November, 2005.

I happen to have a stint with the famed remixer of the current times Lessly Louis. He has dedicated a song to the friendship which he sang from the heart on that day and the song was :

Harminder Virk, Jt. Secretary

One great event of the school has already been published and other is waiting in the wings.

In the month ofSeptember Gp. Capt. Suresh Kumar flagged of a 20 member team under the leadership of ace mountaineer of SSK Sh. JS Gulia to scale Peak Deo Tibba (6001 m) in Manali region. Base camp was established on 12^th Sep at Jagatsukh village. Camp I was established at Chandertal on 18^th Sep. For Camp II (Gungal Col) rope was fixed in the gulley. Beyond this camp Alpine climbing technique was followed.

In the wee hours on 20^th Sep team has a final assault for the peak. The team was successful because “when the going gets tough, the tough gets going” and so is the mighty kunjeyan spirit. The team received back on 26^th Sep achieved the following landmarks during the scaling :

1. A new route was opened between CampI & II for scaling Peak Deo Tibba.

2. The age group of 14-16 is the youngest ever team to scale Peak Deo Tibba

3. The peak was climbed in Alpine technique which is rarely used and most difficult one.

We all are aware of fellow kunjeyan Jagpal who met with an accident two years back which happened to be fatal for his eyes. We know he is brave enough as next year he did join the Old Boys’ Day.

Nature has been very cruel to him, he lost his father few months back and last month we had another blow when we lost Kunjeyan Onkar Singh Sehrawat brother of Jagpal in an air crash while he was flying his craft. We do share his gloomy sorrows.

Kunjeyan Surinder Singh – 1911 also lost his father.

We pray for rest in peace for the departed souls and beg the almighty to bestow upon us the courage and patience to bear these losses, this is what we could only do.

• Kunjeyan Brig. S.P. Mehla (95) suffered from heart attack in the month of August. Now he is Ok.

• Kunjeyan Neerja Rathi suffered from bad health and was in hospital during Aug-September.

• Kunjeyan Rajinder Rajpal (237) was operated for heart problem in the month of September. He once again proved himself that he is a strong pillar as he jumped back to active life the soon after.

We wish all of them a very healthy future.

Kunjeyans are really moving at pace towards the peak. Our fellow tall buddy has grown further, yes we are talking of DDS Sandhu who has donned the Rank of Lt. General. He is the 2^nd Kunjeyans to do so after the Lt. Gen. Deepak Kapoor. Congratulations Sir, and we are sure that this would be just another milestone.

Kunjeyan Saravjeet Batra (2137) has been blessed by a son in the month of August.

Belatedly we have been informed that Dr. NC Upadhya has been blessed with a grandson. And also his another daughter Suchita was awarded with PhD. by Kurukshetra University.

Kunjeyan Harish Digani (1505) has ventured out a new project at Paonta Sahib.

We wish the toddlers and the family a very healthy, peaceful, bright and successful future.

Dear Members, I do hope that grievances of the members have been addressed and they had been getting response well in time. You may mark all your communications to me at the following correspondence address for faster response:

Harminder Virk, 31, Randhir Nagar , Street # 2, Kaithal Road, Karnal – 132 001

 91 94162 05100

Dear Kunjeyans ; My sincere thanks to all those who provided me the information. My regrets if any information got missed out. Please do keep sending the updated information so that we can make this newsletter more rich. Also if any of your friend is not receiving communiqué ask him to drop a line to us with his communication details. Or mail to us at kunjeyans@rediffmail.com or even on my personal id i.e. infocompknl@sify.com. HARMINDER VIRK, Jt. Secretary