Sunday, April 22, 2007
22 April Taratala Nature Park -Mudiali Fisherman's Cooperative Breakfast@Taj * 29 April 7am in front of Calcutta Rowing Club, walk around lakes. Breakfast@Banana Leaf * 6 May, 7 am Botanical Gardens, Shibpur Gate, breakfast@ Taj * In May three weeks hash break * 3 June, 7 am Botanical Gardens, Shibpur Gate, breakfast@Taj * 10 June, 7 am Park Street Cemetery, breakfast@ Chaat Junction * 17 June, 7 am in front of the Nature Park followed by Minto Park, breakfast@ Taj *
Sunday, April 15, 2007
We had a great Poila Baishakh, a hash walk around Central Park and a wonderful breakfast at Rajesh and Payal’s place in salt Lake. Rajesh’s mom made us some delicious Alu Paranthas and Doc had quite a few in Natalie’s absence. Bhaskar, down from Bangkok, joined us and Madhuri became even more keen to go to Bangkok on a holiday as a hash group. The Hash sprung for some mishti shingaras and Bombay halwa that Margherita loved and I enjoyed the Kookie Jar Walnut Cake.
We had a short meeting and decided a number of things.
1. Since most of us will be away in May, it being the hottest month in Cal. we will hash till 6th May and then renew the hash again on 3 June. Sid will be away for three months. The two Rajeshes will be away for 5 weeks, and I will be away all of May. Zoria and Madhuri, who will be in town, will instead head to a few NGOs and schools for street children to distribute notebooks and stationery.
2. We decided to use Rs.15,000, half the money in the bank account, for good works as we have not done any with the banked money in the last couple of years. Chesta needs school books for their students and Zoria has been to an orphanage in Howrah, a small NGO that could do with a shot in the arm. Apart from school books and stationery, we could also think of giving them a first aid kit that Doc can get together. The receipts will show what the hash has paid for. Madhuri is responsible for the distribution of 100 notebooks and pencil boxes to the street school children in Bhowanipur and New Market. Whatever remains can be given to the other NGOs.
3. We will also use some of the Hash money for an excursion with the art school children later this year.
4. We will keep Rs.10000 as reserve in the bank
We had a short meeting and decided a number of things.
1. Since most of us will be away in May, it being the hottest month in Cal. we will hash till 6th May and then renew the hash again on 3 June. Sid will be away for three months. The two Rajeshes will be away for 5 weeks, and I will be away all of May. Zoria and Madhuri, who will be in town, will instead head to a few NGOs and schools for street children to distribute notebooks and stationery.
2. We decided to use Rs.15,000, half the money in the bank account, for good works as we have not done any with the banked money in the last couple of years. Chesta needs school books for their students and Zoria has been to an orphanage in Howrah, a small NGO that could do with a shot in the arm. Apart from school books and stationery, we could also think of giving them a first aid kit that Doc can get together. The receipts will show what the hash has paid for. Madhuri is responsible for the distribution of 100 notebooks and pencil boxes to the street school children in Bhowanipur and New Market. Whatever remains can be given to the other NGOs.
3. We will also use some of the Hash money for an excursion with the art school children later this year.
4. We will keep Rs.10000 as reserve in the bank
Monday, April 09, 2007
We shall meet at Central Park at 7am on Sunday 15th April. We haven't
been to Salt Lake for a while now. We have been invited to have
breakfast by Rajesh and Payal Nath at their new house in Salt Lake. I
can always hope that Payal has some of her interesting objets d'art
handicrafts for sale like the sculpture of the nose to keep ones
spectacles beside the bed table that Gherdie absolutely loved.
Looking forward to this Sunday's hash as it's also Poila Baishakh,
Bengali New Year and we shall get our summer T shirts. Grey ones that
are v necked for the girls and round necked for the boys. It's
inclusive in the membership subscription, Rs.100 for hashers and Rs.
200 for guests. We shall maybe even have a guest from Bangladesh, a
hasher friend of Juned Choudhury (aka Rail Jerker who had joined us on
the Sunderbans expedition). Going to Salt Lake is always a bit of a
pilgrimage for me as it's so far. If any of you want to make a day of
it and catch a movie at Inox, City Centre, we can follow up with lunch
at a new restaurant in City Centre called something like a Bit of This
and a Bit of That.
Siddique is traveling from 17th April and I will be away in May so no
more hash write ups. Madhuri has agreed to take collections of hash
cash. If you have any requests for hash venues in May and June, please
come up with suggestions on 15th April.
They will be emailed once and also put up on the
www.calcuttahashgroup.blogspot.com
Happy Easter and Shubho Nabo Borsho
Neela
9830014934
RSVP Rajesh or me so we get an idea of how many we'll be.
been to Salt Lake for a while now. We have been invited to have
breakfast by Rajesh and Payal Nath at their new house in Salt Lake. I
can always hope that Payal has some of her interesting objets d'art
handicrafts for sale like the sculpture of the nose to keep ones
spectacles beside the bed table that Gherdie absolutely loved.
Looking forward to this Sunday's hash as it's also Poila Baishakh,
Bengali New Year and we shall get our summer T shirts. Grey ones that
are v necked for the girls and round necked for the boys. It's
inclusive in the membership subscription, Rs.100 for hashers and Rs.
200 for guests. We shall maybe even have a guest from Bangladesh, a
hasher friend of Juned Choudhury (aka Rail Jerker who had joined us on
the Sunderbans expedition). Going to Salt Lake is always a bit of a
pilgrimage for me as it's so far. If any of you want to make a day of
it and catch a movie at Inox, City Centre, we can follow up with lunch
at a new restaurant in City Centre called something like a Bit of This
and a Bit of That.
Siddique is traveling from 17th April and I will be away in May so no
more hash write ups. Madhuri has agreed to take collections of hash
cash. If you have any requests for hash venues in May and June, please
come up with suggestions on 15th April.
They will be emailed once and also put up on the
www.calcuttahashgroup.blogspot.com
Happy Easter and Shubho Nabo Borsho
Neela
9830014934
RSVP Rajesh or me so we get an idea of how many we'll be.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Dear Neela and HASH,
We are sorry to be saying this: we will be leaving on Friday morning to return to our North American lives after nearly six wonderful years in Kolkata. Our Sunday mornings with HASH were some of the great highlights of our time here. We will think of all of you fondly, especially on hot Sunday mornings!
Twila and Ed Miller
We are sorry to be saying this: we will be leaving on Friday morning to return to our North American lives after nearly six wonderful years in Kolkata. Our Sunday mornings with HASH were some of the great highlights of our time here. We will think of all of you fondly, especially on hot Sunday mornings!
Twila and Ed Miller
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Subscribed Hashers: Zoria, Vineet, Iipui, Neela, Siddiqui, Carl, Madhuri
Regular Hashers& visitors: Rajesh Poddar and Niti
Guests: Adam, Albert
We walked up to the Banyan tree that Adam, a photogram-mer and artist, Englishman in New York, had been planning to see, since his first visit to Calcutta some ten years ago, without getting around to making the expedition. Iipui picked up some flowers of the cannon ball tree and she and Adam were entranced by the heady perfume. Siddiqui seemed to be smelling Mahua everywhere though we couldn't see the yellow flowers that are supposed to be so intoxicating. I have a bottle of Mahua from Shantiniketan and as a farewell to Margherita on 22 April we can organize a brunch in the garden with Madhuri taking charge of the Mohua Rum Punch, and Carl of the smoked beler sarbat! This was the first time that Adam had seen a bel/wood apple tree. I saw a red dragonfly which I promptly called a grasshopper. I'm not very on the ball early in the morning!
We saw a mongoose, langurs, kingfishers and the white birds bakla (take your pick of egret, pond heron or whatever).
Back at the Taj, we put on our new red and black T shirts with the logo in front and the Kolkata skyline(of the yellow T shirts) on the back and the Taj on the sleeve. For guests it's Rs.200, for hashers and visiting hashers it's Rs.100 and subscribed hashers it's inclusive. So if you haven't already paid your thousand, please do so for the next 6 months! Adam has bought the Tshirt and will become a subscribed hasher when he's back in town later this year. Madhuri's backpack is also in the pipeline!
Niti, who is here for the week, was happy to join the hash with Rajesh who gave her a lift. They left early after breakfast. We had a leisurely breakfast and Adam even showed us the hand bound art books he's getting made in Cal. The calligraphy is taken from the epitaphs of our Park Street cemetery!
Rajesh P. will be traveling for 6 weeks. Rajesh Nath was away in Delhi. He'll be heading to Aranayak, an hour away from Calcutta on the Kona highway, this weekend. It has started getting pretty hot in the mornings so we shall have to switch to our summer time of 7 am and this Sunday being Easter Sunday we will meet in front of St. Paul's Cathedral near the Birla Planetarium and walk around Victoria Memorial before heading to Thandai/Malgudi Junction on Camac Street for breakfast. In the afternoon there is a Free Film Festival at Princeton Club between 3 and 6 p.m. It's open house so please join us for the premiere.
8 April 7am in front of St. Paul's Cathedral near Birla Planetarium, walk around Victoria Memorial to Thandai on Camac Street
15 April 7am in front of Taratala Nature Park to walk around Mudiali Fisherman's Cooperative Breakfast at Taj
22 April 7am in front of Calcutta Rowing Club, to walk around the lakes. Breakfast at Banana Leaf
29 April 7am Central Park Breakfast at Sojourn
Regular Hashers& visitors: Rajesh Poddar and Niti
Guests: Adam, Albert
We walked up to the Banyan tree that Adam, a photogram-mer and artist, Englishman in New York, had been planning to see, since his first visit to Calcutta some ten years ago, without getting around to making the expedition. Iipui picked up some flowers of the cannon ball tree and she and Adam were entranced by the heady perfume. Siddiqui seemed to be smelling Mahua everywhere though we couldn't see the yellow flowers that are supposed to be so intoxicating. I have a bottle of Mahua from Shantiniketan and as a farewell to Margherita on 22 April we can organize a brunch in the garden with Madhuri taking charge of the Mohua Rum Punch, and Carl of the smoked beler sarbat! This was the first time that Adam had seen a bel/wood apple tree. I saw a red dragonfly which I promptly called a grasshopper. I'm not very on the ball early in the morning!
We saw a mongoose, langurs, kingfishers and the white birds bakla (take your pick of egret, pond heron or whatever).
Back at the Taj, we put on our new red and black T shirts with the logo in front and the Kolkata skyline(of the yellow T shirts) on the back and the Taj on the sleeve. For guests it's Rs.200, for hashers and visiting hashers it's Rs.100 and subscribed hashers it's inclusive. So if you haven't already paid your thousand, please do so for the next 6 months! Adam has bought the Tshirt and will become a subscribed hasher when he's back in town later this year. Madhuri's backpack is also in the pipeline!
Niti, who is here for the week, was happy to join the hash with Rajesh who gave her a lift. They left early after breakfast. We had a leisurely breakfast and Adam even showed us the hand bound art books he's getting made in Cal. The calligraphy is taken from the epitaphs of our Park Street cemetery!
Rajesh P. will be traveling for 6 weeks. Rajesh Nath was away in Delhi. He'll be heading to Aranayak, an hour away from Calcutta on the Kona highway, this weekend. It has started getting pretty hot in the mornings so we shall have to switch to our summer time of 7 am and this Sunday being Easter Sunday we will meet in front of St. Paul's Cathedral near the Birla Planetarium and walk around Victoria Memorial before heading to Thandai/Malgudi Junction on Camac Street for breakfast. In the afternoon there is a Free Film Festival at Princeton Club between 3 and 6 p.m. It's open house so please join us for the premiere.
8 April 7am in front of St. Paul's Cathedral near Birla Planetarium, walk around Victoria Memorial to Thandai on Camac Street
15 April 7am in front of Taratala Nature Park to walk around Mudiali Fisherman's Cooperative Breakfast at Taj
22 April 7am in front of Calcutta Rowing Club, to walk around the lakes. Breakfast at Banana Leaf
29 April 7am Central Park Breakfast at Sojourn
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