Degrees
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:06:17 +0530From: "Madras Hash House Harriers"
To:
"kolkata revolutionary hash"
Hi Christyne
Anything to help someone get a "degree". A hasher would say 4 degrees Centigrade is perhaps a good enough "degree" to aim for when you chill the beer.
When the hash first started in South India, it was a Bombay Brewery, London Pilsner, which sponsored the beer, often flying crates down from their home city to Madras, where the local authorities frowned on anyone who did not bribe them enough to sell their "Brand". The situation is much the same even today - unfortunately. Kingfisher, produced by UB Breweries, soon became the local sponsor for most the hashes in India, in the early '90's. (They bought over London Pilsner some time later!). They became the best known Lager beer when they sponsored all the hashes in India, including the main events like the Interhash 2002 Goa, the various Nash Hashes, and special events like "Jazz in the Jungle", a truly unique hash in the world which is organised annually by the Madras Hash.
I am marking this mail to several of the stalwarts of hashing, and the sponsors UB - who will correct me if required, and also provide their contact addresses. Shekar Ramamurthy is the kingpin in the UB Group who keeps us in good spirits, and Nirmal Rajani is the Regional Head Honcho, earlier in Madras/Chennai, and now in Hyderabad.
If you want copies of the letters we actually wrote to UB, you only have to ask. We never used their postal addresses - only their email ids.
Please do send us a copy of the thesis you write on anything concerning the Hash.
On On
Vinod "Beep Beep" Reddy
www,madrashash.com
On 26-Mar-07, at 10:30 PM, Christyne Plante wrote:
Dear Neela, Dear Vinod,
Thank you for your answer and help offered. As I went through my course, I was able to manage a correct answer or context for my works, except for the last one where I need your help.
I need to produce a letter to request sponsorship. As I remember that Kingfisher is/was the official Hash Beer, I was wondering if any of you know since when they've been a sponsor. I also need to know, if not the name of the provider(contact person), at least an address where I can address this letter (in fiction, that is!!). Did we had a letter for this? Were they requesting anything for us to do (like publicity or quantity of visibility)?
Thank you again for your help. After that, it will be all since my final exam is next week... and then, my university diploma! hehe
Christyne (LaLa)
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:05:48 +0000
From: kr_h3@yahoo.co.in
Subject: Hash
To: chrystalain@hotmail.com
CC: vinod@madrashash.com; rcmouli@moulisadvertising.com; chainani@hathway.com; nelsmith@gmail.com
Hi Chrystine.
Delighted that you are doing a paper on the management of events and you'll do the Organisation of Nash Hash Puri.
As I will be in Rajasthan in the coming few days I will not have access to email.
What I suggest is that you get in touch with Vinod Reddy who had come for Puri as well as other hashers like Obelix of Hyderabad who organise such events on a regular basis.They were with me at Chiang Mai Interhash.
They also have websites for Madras Hash, Bangalore Hash and Hyderabad Hash.
As I was in Paris before Puri I wasn't really part of the Mismanagement team except to organise a Run! which I did with the boys from Chennai.
I'm sure they all remember you and would be happy to be p[art of your exam project.
Just got back from Holi in Shantiniketan which was a blast. Took Anais the French intern and Margherita my Italian houseguest along and they loved it.
Cheers,
Neela
Labels: Beers Sponsors
posted by Calcutta Hash Walks @ 3:48 pm
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