Scottish Church Collegiate School Explained

Scottish Church Collegiate School (SCCS)
Address:	73, Bidhan Sarani, 32/8, Beadon Street, Kolkata - 700006, West Bengal, India.^[1]
Pushpin Map:	India West Bengal#India
Founder:	Alexander Duff & Raja Rammohan Roy
Nickname:	SCOTTISHIANS
President:	Rt. Rev. Dr. Paritosh Canning, Bishop of Kolkata.
Headmaster:	Bivash Saniel
House:	rammohan(red) = vivekananda(orange) = netaji(green) = duff(blue)

The Scottish Church Collegiate School is a school in north Kolkata, West Bengal, India. This school has three branches: Bidhan Sarani (Kolkata), Kestopur (Krishnapur, Kolkata) and Beadon Street (Kolkata).

Notable former pupils

• Anindya Chatterjee, film and music director, singer, lyricist and actor^[2]
• Tanishk Bagchi, music producer, composer, singer and lyricist^[3]
• Sayantan Das, chess player^[2]
• Manna Dey, singer, music director and musician^{[4] [5]}
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji, writer^[6]
• Badal Sircar, dramatist and theatre director^[7]

See also

• Scottish Church College, the twin institution of the school, also founded by Duff.
• List of schools in India
• Education in West Bengal

Notes and References

1. Web site: Official Site. Scottish Church Collegiate School. 2 July 2014.
2. News: Old boys' meet. https://web.archive.org/web/20121026071807/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090214/jsp/calcutta/story_10534281.jsp. dead. 26 October 2012. 4 April 2023. The Telegraph. Kolkota.
3. Web site: Humma Humma to Tamma Tamma – he's Bolly's music man of the moment. Meet Calcutta boy Tanishk Bagchi . The Telegraph . Kolkota . 4 April 2023.
4. Book: Joshi, S. . Bollywood Through Ages . Best Book Reads . 978-1-311-67669-6 . 4 Apr 2023 . 68.
5. Book: De, M. . Memories Come Alive: An Autobiography . Penguin Books . 2007 . 978-0-14-310193-2 . 4 Apr 2023 . 3.
6. Book: Mukerji . D.G. . Chang . G.H. . Mankekar . P. . Gupta . A. . Caste and Outcast . Stanford University Press . Asian America . 2002 . 978-0-8047-4434-8 . 4 Apr 2023 . 258.
7. Book: Katyal, A. . Badal Sircar: Towards a Theatre of Conscience . SAGE Publications . 2015 . 978-93-5150-371-2 . 4 Apr 2023 . 1.