Check List for Sunderbans
We leave at 6 am from the Parcomat on the corner of Park Street and Loudon street opposite the Assembley of God Church to make the most of the precious daylight hours. Look out for a yellow bus called George!
Foreigners don't forget to bring along your permit from WB Toursim office in Dalhousie. We have to write a list of all those going so I will ask you to fill out your name and age on the Bus. The details of the boat are MV Bholanath. Mr. Mrinal 9339830280
Attached below is the list for Sunderbans trip.
Siddiqui Carl Bonani Pradeep Madhuri Zoria Doc Rajesh Nath Payal Gherdie Shelley Tony Neela Andy Francois Yvonnick Mark Ashish Mehta Avo Afroz Manish Najju Luthra Ms. Luthra Uppal Aditi Rita Alok Arif Mr & Mrs. Niladri Saw. Some of the names on the list are tentative so please confirm
Hashers bring Rs.100 Guests bring Rs.500 Bring booze, drinks, water, snacks, cake, biscuits.
We’ll stop on the way if we can’t last out till we reach the boat at 9 to have Indian breakfast with eggs and fruit. There will be non veg lunch and snacks at tea time.
Bring caps, warm clothes for the evening, mosquito repellent, torch, cameras and whatever other jungle safari item you require. Am counting on the Hash flashes for some nice photos.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Botanical Garden- The Atrium-Craft Village
The Botanical Garden hash walk was brought forward to the 27th, the last Sunday of November, 2005 as we leave for the Sunderbans on 4th Dec. Zoria, Carl, Madhuri and Sid were early birds and set off to catch the worms inside. Wanja (who changed from slippers into sneakers at my insistence and was thus responsible for our late arrival), François and I got a lift in Paurosh and Vineet’s car at Turf View. We caught up with Nitish, Jolly and Nishant in front of the Banyan tree. New Hashers Andy and Nil reached the main gate and caught up with us at the center. Pradeep and Bonani who brought lawyer Vikramjit on false pretences saying that they were going to the Wetlands, caught up with us at the lily pool.
The Ficus bengalensis was fascinating for François and Wanja as this was their first visit and they kept asking which was the original tree trunk. Bonani and Nil are birds of a feather and were bouncing birds and flowers off each other! To confuse me further Nil pointed out the Bird of Paradise which is a flower! The white bird or bok I keep confusing is the egret. The pond heron is actually brown with a white underside to the wing when flying. There was something called a Jacanna but I’ve quite forgotten whether it was a bird or flower! Andy who is now an active member of the hash group, having set up the website and the pictures, took lots of pictures of cobwebs on a bush as we walked towards the riverside. We walked up to the old colonial building and then turned around as I was getting frantic calls from Doc that I kept passing on to Bonani.
Yvonnick was told that 20 of us were reaching The Park. We set off in cars and motorbike back to The Park by 8:45. A long table was set up for the hashers and I sat at the alcove table with Yvonnick, Wanja and other new hashers and was able to convince all 4 to join the Hash Group as we needed their multiple talents. Andy is Hash Flash like Yvonnick, our gourmet chef and chief contact with The Park and Flury’s. Nil is Bonani’s spiritual son (as Andy put it) and we are all invited to his design studio d next to the Toll Bridge for their first anniversary on 1st December at 7 p.m., as well as for a barbecue after one of the Botanical Garden visits this winter. He was full of anecdotes on Michael Madhushudan Dutt who lived near the Botanics and came to the gardens for literary inspiration. I was inspired to recite Simple Simon met a pieman as François has come to the conclusion that I need mnemonic help to remember names of birds so I’m to think of lemon pie and I’ll remember that it’s a magpie with a forked tail! Need hardly say that I remember the Atrium menu quite easily, even Akuri which is a sort of Indian scrambled egg and not a Japanese businessman…
After breakfast, Yvonnick invted us to the Business Center to watch the Durga Puja, Bisarjan boat trip, Kali Puja, Cemetery, and Hallowe’en pictures taken by him, Andy, and François. After the photo session, we headed to the Craft Village with Sid on Yvonnick’s bike with Nil’s extra helmet, and Wanja, François and I following in a cab. Wanja bought a wedding present for a friend from the Bastar stall and Yvonnick bought a hanging wrought iron lamp which we are negotiating the price of. If anyone is interested in buying the giant tortoise made of bamboo, leaves and jute it can be bought for Rs.5000. Nothing to beat François “Monstrosity” as dad puts it though the rest of us refer to her as his fiancée standing sentry by my stairs. Wanja who was living upstairs from her has left Cal but will be back to spend December with us. She will miss the Sunderbans trip but I think we can set up some interesting hash trails for her return.
Neela
9830014934
The Botanical Garden hash walk was brought forward to the 27th, the last Sunday of November, 2005 as we leave for the Sunderbans on 4th Dec. Zoria, Carl, Madhuri and Sid were early birds and set off to catch the worms inside. Wanja (who changed from slippers into sneakers at my insistence and was thus responsible for our late arrival), François and I got a lift in Paurosh and Vineet’s car at Turf View. We caught up with Nitish, Jolly and Nishant in front of the Banyan tree. New Hashers Andy and Nil reached the main gate and caught up with us at the center. Pradeep and Bonani who brought lawyer Vikramjit on false pretences saying that they were going to the Wetlands, caught up with us at the lily pool.
The Ficus bengalensis was fascinating for François and Wanja as this was their first visit and they kept asking which was the original tree trunk. Bonani and Nil are birds of a feather and were bouncing birds and flowers off each other! To confuse me further Nil pointed out the Bird of Paradise which is a flower! The white bird or bok I keep confusing is the egret. The pond heron is actually brown with a white underside to the wing when flying. There was something called a Jacanna but I’ve quite forgotten whether it was a bird or flower! Andy who is now an active member of the hash group, having set up the website and the pictures, took lots of pictures of cobwebs on a bush as we walked towards the riverside. We walked up to the old colonial building and then turned around as I was getting frantic calls from Doc that I kept passing on to Bonani.
Yvonnick was told that 20 of us were reaching The Park. We set off in cars and motorbike back to The Park by 8:45. A long table was set up for the hashers and I sat at the alcove table with Yvonnick, Wanja and other new hashers and was able to convince all 4 to join the Hash Group as we needed their multiple talents. Andy is Hash Flash like Yvonnick, our gourmet chef and chief contact with The Park and Flury’s. Nil is Bonani’s spiritual son (as Andy put it) and we are all invited to his design studio d next to the Toll Bridge for their first anniversary on 1st December at 7 p.m., as well as for a barbecue after one of the Botanical Garden visits this winter. He was full of anecdotes on Michael Madhushudan Dutt who lived near the Botanics and came to the gardens for literary inspiration. I was inspired to recite Simple Simon met a pieman as François has come to the conclusion that I need mnemonic help to remember names of birds so I’m to think of lemon pie and I’ll remember that it’s a magpie with a forked tail! Need hardly say that I remember the Atrium menu quite easily, even Akuri which is a sort of Indian scrambled egg and not a Japanese businessman…
After breakfast, Yvonnick invted us to the Business Center to watch the Durga Puja, Bisarjan boat trip, Kali Puja, Cemetery, and Hallowe’en pictures taken by him, Andy, and François. After the photo session, we headed to the Craft Village with Sid on Yvonnick’s bike with Nil’s extra helmet, and Wanja, François and I following in a cab. Wanja bought a wedding present for a friend from the Bastar stall and Yvonnick bought a hanging wrought iron lamp which we are negotiating the price of. If anyone is interested in buying the giant tortoise made of bamboo, leaves and jute it can be bought for Rs.5000. Nothing to beat François “Monstrosity” as dad puts it though the rest of us refer to her as his fiancée standing sentry by my stairs. Wanja who was living upstairs from her has left Cal but will be back to spend December with us. She will miss the Sunderbans trip but I think we can set up some interesting hash trails for her return.
Neela
9830014934
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Horticultural Gardens & Parineeta - Pasteur Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. Tour
We had 11 and a half hashers on Sunday morning. Nitish brought his three year old son Nishant who walked and was carried alternatively. Gherdie returned after ages and enjoyed chatting with newcomers Lilly working with The Statesman and her friend Patrick from Delhi who was in Cal for the weekend and were delighted to join us for a walk around the Horticultural Gardens on Sunday 20th November. I was able to point out to them the Mad tree, the cannon ball tree, Elephant Foot tree, and Camel Foot tree!
Zoria, Patrick and Lilly and I went to Francois house to watch the film of Parineeta. It probably took us half an hour to get the subtitles and not the director’s comments version of the movie. The movie was good tho’ I don’t know whether Zoria cried at the end like Lilly because I went home to shower and pick up Josette a French lady staying at my house and cake for our host.
The Pasteur Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Subhendu Law’s house was where certain scenes of Parineeta was filmed. Peter and Rosie, Emma and Olivier Urman who did the "the-no-music room", 13 images in Plexiglas met us on College Street. Subhendu gave us a guided tour of his ancestral home built in 1906. We saw the nautchghar, the various blue rooms, rose rooms, green rooms so called by me according to the colour of the chandeliers and the ceilings! Zoria’s favourite was a picture of our host’s father as a child beside a Shetland Pony. Peter preferred the pictures of his great grandfather, consul of Haiti in his regimental gear with cavalry sword. Olivier felt humiliated when he saw all the chandeliers some covered in dustsheets that were more resplendent than his images in Plexiglas. Emma took pictures. Patrick was delighted to find amongst the medallions a key chain of Montreal 1976 his hometown and birth year. I was most impressed with the wall lights with coat of arms etchings in the dining room that according to Peter sheds a whole new light on “come and see my etchings”. Rosie who has been to the loos of Buckingham palace was delighted with the bathroom there. Francois must have been happy to see a bust of Napoleon till Peter pointed out he was Corsican. Peter would gladly give up his holidays to catalogue the library which had a very interesting book called Popular Delusions! I guess we all left there with delusions of grandeur after seeing the Daimler that may be restored in time for the Statesman Vintage Car rally in January 2006. We had cold drinks with our host at their grand dining table where the 14 members of the joint family who still live there dine every evening. Not to worry it’s a huge house with enough rooms and antechambers though we didn’t get to see the private chambers. We even took a long tram ride back to Esplanade.
We had 11 and a half hashers on Sunday morning. Nitish brought his three year old son Nishant who walked and was carried alternatively. Gherdie returned after ages and enjoyed chatting with newcomers Lilly working with The Statesman and her friend Patrick from Delhi who was in Cal for the weekend and were delighted to join us for a walk around the Horticultural Gardens on Sunday 20th November. I was able to point out to them the Mad tree, the cannon ball tree, Elephant Foot tree, and Camel Foot tree!
Zoria, Patrick and Lilly and I went to Francois house to watch the film of Parineeta. It probably took us half an hour to get the subtitles and not the director’s comments version of the movie. The movie was good tho’ I don’t know whether Zoria cried at the end like Lilly because I went home to shower and pick up Josette a French lady staying at my house and cake for our host.
The Pasteur Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Subhendu Law’s house was where certain scenes of Parineeta was filmed. Peter and Rosie, Emma and Olivier Urman who did the "the-no-music room", 13 images in Plexiglas met us on College Street. Subhendu gave us a guided tour of his ancestral home built in 1906. We saw the nautchghar, the various blue rooms, rose rooms, green rooms so called by me according to the colour of the chandeliers and the ceilings! Zoria’s favourite was a picture of our host’s father as a child beside a Shetland Pony. Peter preferred the pictures of his great grandfather, consul of Haiti in his regimental gear with cavalry sword. Olivier felt humiliated when he saw all the chandeliers some covered in dustsheets that were more resplendent than his images in Plexiglas. Emma took pictures. Patrick was delighted to find amongst the medallions a key chain of Montreal 1976 his hometown and birth year. I was most impressed with the wall lights with coat of arms etchings in the dining room that according to Peter sheds a whole new light on “come and see my etchings”. Rosie who has been to the loos of Buckingham palace was delighted with the bathroom there. Francois must have been happy to see a bust of Napoleon till Peter pointed out he was Corsican. Peter would gladly give up his holidays to catalogue the library which had a very interesting book called Popular Delusions! I guess we all left there with delusions of grandeur after seeing the Daimler that may be restored in time for the Statesman Vintage Car rally in January 2006. We had cold drinks with our host at their grand dining table where the 14 members of the joint family who still live there dine every evening. Not to worry it’s a huge house with enough rooms and antechambers though we didn’t get to see the private chambers. We even took a long tram ride back to Esplanade.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Shantiniketan Field Trip
While Peter and Rosie were enjoying Darjeeling, 6 of us took the Shantiniketan Exress on Sunday, 13th November. We spent an hour at the Tagore museum and saw an international photo exhibition, an hour in the Boner Pukur Santal village where Yvonnick took tons of photos, and an hour at Amar Kutir buying knick-knacks and having chai in bhanrs – clay pots. Yvonnick is now in Darjeeling and will probably bump into Peter and Rosie and they can buy chocolates and Sikkimese Paan Liqueur!
Hashers you are cordially invited for the following programmes :
CONTEMPORARY DANCE PERFORMANCE
"le temps du repli", choreography by Josef Nadj
on Wednesday 16 November, 7 pm
@ Gorky Sadan
CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
"the-no-music room", 13 images in plexiglas by Olivier Urman
opening on 17 November, 7 pm - refreshments will be served
Guests of Honour: Soumitra Chatterjee & Vijaya Mulay
@ Akar Prakar, p 238 hindustan park, Kolkata 29
exhibition on 17 & 18 November
Madur at 6 p.m. Friday 18Th November at Oxford Bookstore
or today Wednesday 16th November at 4 p.m. at Nandan III
A TARA Telefilm (with subtitles in English) about a mastercraftsman from a village of weavers of madur or mats.
Versedance 19th November Gyan Manch on Pretoria street opposite Astor off Theatre Road. Tickets available at venue.
And finally on Sunday 20th November, Meet at 7:30 at Horticultural Gardens for a walk. Watch Parineeta at Francois's house and then go to the Laha bari where the film was shot.
While Peter and Rosie were enjoying Darjeeling, 6 of us took the Shantiniketan Exress on Sunday, 13th November. We spent an hour at the Tagore museum and saw an international photo exhibition, an hour in the Boner Pukur Santal village where Yvonnick took tons of photos, and an hour at Amar Kutir buying knick-knacks and having chai in bhanrs – clay pots. Yvonnick is now in Darjeeling and will probably bump into Peter and Rosie and they can buy chocolates and Sikkimese Paan Liqueur!
Hashers you are cordially invited for the following programmes :
CONTEMPORARY DANCE PERFORMANCE
"le temps du repli", choreography by Josef Nadj
on Wednesday 16 November, 7 pm
@ Gorky Sadan
CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
"the-no-music room", 13 images in plexiglas by Olivier Urman
opening on 17 November, 7 pm - refreshments will be served
Guests of Honour: Soumitra Chatterjee & Vijaya Mulay
@ Akar Prakar, p 238 hindustan park, Kolkata 29
exhibition on 17 & 18 November
Madur at 6 p.m. Friday 18Th November at Oxford Bookstore
or today Wednesday 16th November at 4 p.m. at Nandan III
A TARA Telefilm (with subtitles in English) about a mastercraftsman from a village of weavers of madur or mats.
Versedance 19th November Gyan Manch on Pretoria street opposite Astor off Theatre Road. Tickets available at venue.
And finally on Sunday 20th November, Meet at 7:30 at Horticultural Gardens for a walk. Watch Parineeta at Francois's house and then go to the Laha bari where the film was shot.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
6th November 2005
6th November Botanical Gardens Breakfast at Taj
The Botanical Garden walk was pleasant. It was Tony’s first time to the Botanics and Rajesh Poddar’s guest was coming there after many years. The Amazonian lilies were in full bloom but we couldn’t see any lotus. We saw Kingfisher and egrets (!) which in Bonani’s absence I’ve been passing off as storks. We were 13 for breakfast at the Taj. It was decided that we endeavor to have two green space hashes every month, one being the Botanical Gardens.
The Botanical Garden walk was pleasant. It was Tony’s first time to the Botanics and Rajesh Poddar’s guest was coming there after many years. The Amazonian lilies were in full bloom but we couldn’t see any lotus. We saw Kingfisher and egrets (!) which in Bonani’s absence I’ve been passing off as storks. We were 13 for breakfast at the Taj. It was decided that we endeavor to have two green space hashes every month, one being the Botanical Gardens.
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