Kolkata Revolutionary Hash House Harriers KRH3
The Kolkata Revolutionary Hash House Harriers is a hash which meets every alternate Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m.
Hashers meet for an hour of running/walking followed by a circle, plenty of beer, chips and if the occasion arises, cake, food and fellowship.
Hashers are typically other expats living in Kolkata, Indian professionals and executives with a lot of overlapping of members also in the Sunday Hash Group.
With Kolkata been given the honour of hosting the first ever eastern Nash Hash at Puri Dec 3-5th 2004, we need to reach out to get more hashers to join us. The Hash Groups in Delhi, Chennai (both places have more than 1 hash group meeting on different days of the week) have definitely more members than Calcutta, but we were successful in pitching to organize the Nash Hash in the East and creating enough enthusiasm across the country and amongst our neighbours like Bangladesh and Malaysia to hope for around 150 participants.
Here’s a write up I picked up from the
http://www.gthhh.com THE WORLD HASH HOUSE HARRIERS HOME PAGE
which explains the Hash Spirit and could be forwarded to our friends who want to join.
Basically a hash consists of three main parts:
The Run (aka Trail)
One or two hashers, called the hare(s), lay a trail. They mark their trail with chalk arrows, shredded paper, flour, or pieces of toilet paper hanging in the bush, depending on local tradition or terrain. They might pre-lay the trail a day or a few hours before the hash, or they might lay the trail as "live hares," running ahead of the pack with only a short (15 minutes is typical) head start. At a given signal, the rest of the hash (the Harriers, Harriettes, hounds, or pack) set off in pursuit of the trail. The idea is to keep the pack somewhat together and this is achieved by setting false trails, cunning checks, and sneaky loops. The fitter front runners will often run twice as far as the more slothful members yet still finish the run at the same time as the rest of the pack. The length and difficulty of the run depends on the hare and the terrain but will typically be between four and eight kilometers, or about 45 minutes to an hour of running/walking with checks, false trails, and shortcutting.
The Circle (aka Religion)
At trail's end hashers gather to drink beer and observe religious ceremonies . . . which consist of drinking more beer, this time ritualistically. Circles may be led by the hash Grandmaster, the Religious Adviser, or by a committee of mismanagement. Traditions (and the degree of rowdiness) vary from hash to hash, but in general the Circle consists of awarding "Down-Downs" for misdemeanors real, imagined, or blatantly made up, and the recipients will most likely have been charged by their fellow hashers for use of mobiles during the run or smoking... Visitors are always given a Visitors Down-Down as are Virgins (first-time hash runners) and anyone else who comes to the attention of the Circle. The Circle can last a couple of minutes or half the night depending on the level of religious fervor of the hash. With changing times, drinking has lost some of its importance and most clubs now modify their ceremonies to cater to non-drinkers and those stupid enough to think that hashing can improve their health.
The On-On (aka On-On-On, On-Afters, or Après)
Some hashes suspend ceremonies for awhile to consume food provided by the hare(s). Other hashes, at the conclusion of the Circle, repair to a nearby restaurant or pub. This is the social part of the hash, and the party usually breaks up afterward. In some hashes, however, religion may continue during or after On-Ons, with the telling of jokes and singing of songs, and all members, visitors, and virgins should come armed with at least one joke or song lest they be called upon.
Regardless of the style of the hash, all is in good fun and this "drinking club with a running problem" welcomes all with a sense of humor. Hashing has created a fraternity that knows no geographical bounds of hospitality. The only prerequisite to hashing is a sense of humor, as running and athletic ability usually take a back seat to the social aspects of the sport. As reportedly coined by Hong Kong hasher Phil Kirkland and stated in hash flyers frequently: "If you've half a mind to join the hash, that's all you need!"
Hashing also knows no age boundaries, with family hashes and horrors or children's hashes, as well as members from all ages in the regular hashes. The only main difference between groups is their emphasis on the sporting versus social aspects of hashing. All of the hashes end with a bit of fraternity business at the On-In or finish point. The Down-Down celebrates new runners, various landmarks in the careers of hashers, hash names or handles for the hashers, and assorted other reasons to drink beer or their favorite beverage. Most hashes also add bawdy song to the festivities and there are special event runs that may end in a feast and a party as well. Interhashes, or gatherings of several hashes for a special event, occur at frequent intervals worldwide. There are national and regional interhashes, as well as a world event simply labeled Interhash. (A complete calendar of these events can be found in the Global Trash Future Tortures section of the magazine or The Worldwide HHH Home Page.)
The important thing is that we are all Hashers sharing an experience like no other, and in the sharing, we are all enriched with... The Hashing Spirit.
For further queries to join the Saturday Hash write to me at the Kolkata Revolutionary Hash House Harriers
kr_h3@yahoo.co.inYou will automatically be put on our mailing list and receive news of the next run and a write up of the previous one. There is no membership fee only hash cash of Rs.100 per run from regulars and visitors alike.
Late cummer Neela 9830014934
A list of those Mismanaging the KRH3
Role Hash Handle Name
Grand Master Duck Suck Carl Fowler
Religious Advisor Sexy Legs Chiru Sur
Hash Cash/Drey-beer n drinks in the circle Hissin' Sid Siddique Cowper
Hash Flash Debaroop Sen
Hash Scribe Late Cummer Neela Majumdar
Degrees
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:06:17 +0530
From: "Madras Hash House Harriers"
To:
"kolkata revolutionary hash" , "Vinod Reddy" , nrajani@ubmail.com, shr@ubmail.com, ericmcgaw@hotmail.com, "Eric McGaw"
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,
NeelaLabels: Beers Sponsors
A Hash Song
A Hash Song
Don't know the melody? Play the MIDI!
Hashers, meet the Hashers,
We're the biggest drunks in history,
From the town of __________,
We're the leaders in debauchery.
Half-minds, trailing shiggy through the years,
Watch us, as we drink a lot of beer,
Down down, down down down down,
Down down down down down down down down down . . .
Become a HASHER...... and join the running club with a drinking problem....ON ON ON
Ranger's Club
The KRH 3 met on Saturday 9th December, 2006. I met Fiddler and Fiddlee along with Ashish Bhuwalka at 3:30 in front of the Grand Hotel. Sexy Legs arrived without any of the Chiru’s Angels we’d prayed for. We told DD and Hissin Sid to join us at The Rangers Club as GM Molester was there with his Mom who is down from Chester till the New Year when they plan to visit Thailand. Wish they’d come with us to Chiang Mai in November. The Rangers club was also used as the venue for December episodes of Khunti Kadai a cookery show on TARA NEWZ featuring Shawkat Osman from Dhaka.
While waiting for DD and the bar to open, I distributed or rather got rid of (as instructed by my Mom) the various Interhash paraphernalia such as hospital id hash wrist band, various patches, car stickers and headbands. Madhuri, who had given instructions to Siddiqui to collect any hash haberdashery on offer, got the Bali headband. Fiddler Nitish was already wearing the Hyderabad Hash T shirt and the armband zip wallet. Molester drove over in his jeep and the Chiang mai 2006 car sticker will I’m sure be on on it soon, and the patch will join the Nash Hash Puri 2004 patch!
Leaving Chiru to keep the Walshes company, the rest of us walked down Red Road – the demonstration/political rally was the next day. The maidan in front had a cricket match in progress. A phuchka wala was pitching for some custom from the players; we formed a circle outside and down downed some 50+ phuchkas when DD in his new hairstyle came along to pay him out of hash cash.
The Beers were ordered in the circle and Molester was GM and Religious Advisor to DD on the subject of Holy Matrimony. The add-vice was of course to go forth and sin! We stayed drinking beers and eating cheeseballs and daalmuth till 6p.m.
French Whine Francois called to wish me a belated Happy Birthday and we all made plans to go to Nash Hash Hyderabad 26th to 28th January, 2007. On board so far is French Whine Francois, L8Cummer, GM Molester, RABean Town, Double D, and perhaps DD. Fiddler and Fiddlee are off to Wild Grass in Kaziranga that weekend. Pants Down Pammi is in Delhi but we hope he’ll surface soon. Topsurd Chintu is back after his second honeymoon to the US and Ouistiti Rahul is back in town too. Raw Sex Sunil is coming today to Cal. on a quick trip and Coming on the Dot Vasu also plans a visit for a weekend sooner rather than later I hope.
The next Hash will be the Nash Hash so please register before 31st Dec. I’m not paying Rs.7000, so I’m in the Rs.2000 category. Others please decide. Registration form can be downloaded if you google Registration Form Nash Hash Hyderabad 2007.
On on,
Late Cummer 9830014934
Dear Hashers
You all may be aware that Hyderabad Hash will be hosting the next Nash Hash during 26th January to 28th January 2008.
The registration fee for H4 hashers will be Rs. 2000 and those seeking accommodation at Novotel will be Rs. 7000
This will give you a goody bag with T-shirts, 2 dinners and a lunch, other sponsored giveaways, FREE Beer and 3 runs and partying for 2 nights.
The Nash Hash committee was formed a few months ago.
Now we need to know how many hashers will be attending this event. This will help us order T-shirts etc and avoid wastage. Please reply to this mail and give your confirmation for attending the event.
Please register before 31st Dec should you need hotel accommodation.
Your early response and your registrations will be highly appreciated.
ONON
Obelix
Labels: Ranger's Club last hash of 2006
Hash schedule
Greetings Hashers.
It's time the Revolutionaries revived.
Let's hash on Saturday 18th November.
Meet in front of Tollygunge Club Metro at 3 p.m.
Debbie Does the Docks and Duck Suck can hare us over to Baguihati where they had recce'd. Photo proof in Archives. It looks like a good green run so let's get together in large numbers especially as the Circle will be back at my place and I have souvenir's of Interhash Chiang Mai 2006.
Everyone invited to Princeton Club for a Madhav Chari piano jazz concert at 7p.m. More food, drink and camaraderie there with our own version of jazz in the Concrete Jungle of Calcutta. For those of you in the South you should be heading for the Annual Bakarapet Jazz in the Jungle 18-19th November.
Bean Town Billy and Double D should be in cal. for Bill's b'day on 24th Jan and we can all do a great train rumble to Hyderabad for the Nash Hash on Republic Day weekend to keep up the Indian hash tradition of getting hopeless high on a dry day!
Registration forms available on
http://www.madrashash.com/Next Interhash 2008 has been won by Perth. So start saving if you want to join them there. We were nearly 6000 in Chiang Mai 2006. Am aiming for a dirty dozen to Nash Hash from the KRH3.
On, On,Late Cummer9830014934
The good Hash Scribe I am, I am going to Hyderabad tomorrow to recce both Air Deccan, the Falukanama Express and the Hyderabad Hashers. Back on Children's Day 14th November!
On, On.
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….
Losing my voice and gaining my Religious Advisor
Dear Hashers,
Bean Town Billie and Double D Sarah must be on their way to India as Igot in to office this morning and didn't find a joke email from Billto brighten up my day!They arrive tomorrow ie Thursday as they are planning on "drinking for4 days" in the watering holes of Calcutta. This is what Bill has tosay about the Sunday afternoon truck hash-"Hashin with revolutionary reprobates is not what we had in mind but ifthe Rangers are not planning the day for us (they like their Sundayevents and they are normally done by 3 but will be far enough into thecups to make it or so we may be able to drag our already been drinkingfor 4 days asses to the circle for a down down.On On"while Sarah says " Hey, if it is a truck run I am all for it! On on!"Yay. So better be there in numbers to party with them as you've beenwarned - the weekend in Calcutta starts on Thursday!If you haven't got calls from me reminding you that the Saturday Hashwill be on Sunday afternoon it's cos I've lost my voice. I think it'slaryngitis but Arran says it's more a case of"Too-much-partying-on-Saturday." Ofcourse I may just be speechless atthe news that DD has proposed and been accepted and may be leaving usfor an NRI in Manchester!Rono made some rude and lewd deep throat references as I tried nursingmy vocal chords with neat Old Monk Rum at his housewarming party onSunday. I've warned Jayanta to start practicing Red House as Bill mayjust want to sing it again for old times sake on Saturday night atSome Place Else.I just hope I stop croaking and have a sexy drawl atleast. See ya atBrit Club I guess tho I've lost my card too and my membership may haveexpired...On, on,Late Cummer ;-D
