Fire and Ice Hash
Bill n Sarah were in town for a Monsoon weekend. The Old Reprobate serenaded me on bended knee in the newly remodeled car park of The British Club as I entered. That barmy Monsoon Thursday, we’d managed to get Molester Walsh, Willy Wanker Shaun, Arran, David Purdy, Sexy legs Chiru, Vijaya Daing, Tony together in the nowadays relatively empty British Club. Sarah and I reminisced about how there used to be sixty people there having a good time in the good old days when there wasn’t a ten o’clock curfew!Walsh told us that the rugby was cancelled on Saturday so we decided to move the hash back to Saturday afternoon. I left the hashers smoking in the parking lot. God knows what they did later for Fried Ashish has pictures of Molester and Double D in the boot of a taxi with Arran beside it. They had taken the taxi to Roxy by which time Molester’s sandal had fallen off enrouteI Bean Town, Double D after another drink went on up to their room at The Park, leaving a sleeping Molester and Arran and Hashish to keep the side up drinking and dancing till the early hours. Flashback to previous Saturday night when Debu was the one sleeping it off at Roxy. Saw these hash flashes at Ego at the Peerless Inn where the party continued Friday night. Even TopSurd Chintu was there to welcome Bean Town, Double D and me back to Cal. Very warm moments with him calling me hot and I wishing him happy belated b'day. So who is she Sohini, Lilly, Dev r Nil, and Patrick were already on the circular dance floor (around which a white tassled curtain was drawn at the end of the evening). Arran finally figured out where the place was and joined us just as we'd finally figured out the who's who in the Ego line up of film stars and politicians. Go check it out and see if you can recognize the second face in the wall of fame!
Willy Wanker and Molester and Bean Town and Double D were to hare two by two on Saturday but the first pair ditched. On Saturday morning, Walsh sent an sms that he had to attend a Kolkata Police football tournament. I bumped into Shaun and Naveen Pai Just Around the Corner coffeeshop in the afternoon. Arran was incommunicado having drowned his sorrows in drink on Friday night at Venom after our sortie at Ego. Lilly was hors combat and Bean Town and Double D were the first to reach the Rangers. Ashish's brains are so fried that he came in his rubber chappals to the hash although he remembered to bring his brightly coloured giant T shirts that were as tall as my cousin Josh - Hash Horror brought on the pretext that we'd see some football on the Maidan. The T shirts weren’t hash T shirts but if anyone was expecting a run that day, they only had to pick up one of the T shirts which all had either holes or runs! Sexy Legs Chiru who looked "rough" wasn't there to walk. He suggested beer at Fire and Ice as the Ranger’s Bar doesn’t open till 5p.m. and Bill, Sarah and Vijaya were the only ones propping up the empty bar. Willy Wanker kept yanking around saying he was on his way but didn't reach. Other hashers trickled in in all states of non hash gear. Khal-Nayak must think this is just a drinking club with a problem as he came in his office gear and took a lift in the car to Fire and Ice. The rest of us – Bean Town, Double D, Vijaya, me, the hash horror and the even bigger horror Hashish - walked through the tall grasses of the Maidan and the death defying crossing on Chowringhee to make it to Fire and Ice for some more than welcome cold beer. The others had coolly taken their cars there. Chintu arrived, Chiru had disappeared. Molester was still listening to the Mayor’s speech and Shaun was still arriving. Madhuri made it and was delighted with the pizzeria as was Bill and Sarah who had probably been surviving on a solely liquid diet till then! Shaun finally made it to Rangers where the hash drinking continued till 11 p.m….
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