asha for education – boston/mit chapter thank you for your efforts speediest senior / indian...

Asha For Education – Boston/MIT Chapter

Thank you for your efforts

Speediest Senior / Indian Standard Time Award

In recognition of the following invaluable contributions

• Setting a rock steady pace on training runs which helped everyone else time themselves• Promoting conscientiousness, recycling, and the use of the boa constrictor as an exercise device• Being the oldest runner and finishing the fastest, giving us lesser mortals something to aspire to• Always calling 5 minutes before the run starts to tell us that he would be there in 15 minutes

We do hereby confer the

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The Harbingers Of Hope 2003 Awards

His Most Excellent Majesty Vivek Pandit

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Unbeatable Short Term Amnesia / Best Nom de Plume Award


• Setting the pace on the track workouts and leaving everyone behind breathless• Putting a short, easy-to-pronounce, nickname on his shirt on race day and showing incomprehension when cheered, thereby providing the rest of the crew with infinite entertainment• Founder of the “6 Gu – Cookie – Bagel – Banana” Marathon Finishing Strategy




Right Honourable Shri Mohinder “Moe” Sikka

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Blitz Fundraiser / Satellite Office Award


• Training without the presence or help of his teammates, thereby reminding us what real dedication is• Suggesting the team compute square roots of large numbers to fight the tedium of long distance running• Having the most generous set of fundraising donors and managing to raise more in the final week before the marathon than everyone else could throughout the summer




His Royal Highness Kripa Sundaronon



Most Eloquent Knee Award


• Training without the presence or help of his teammates, and reminding us what real dedication is• Possessing the most eloquent limb on the whole team, “I tried to start running again, but my knee said #@$& !”• Managing to get into the New York Marathon, just so that he could claim he ran with P.Diddy




His Divine Grace Shailesh Sahay

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Hyper-Compressed Training Award


• Projecting insanity by joining a marathon training program halfway through its course• Possessing the courage and conviction to train and run in spite of the abbreviated schedule• Switching his favourite sport from one where gentlemen where clean white sweaters, the acme of sporting elegance, to one where you have to don a body tight Asha singlet to be on the team




His Exalted Highness Shiven Ruparel

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Best Excuse / Resistance To 7 a.m. Running Award


• Reminding us all that even people who have SUVs have a social conscience• Leading the pack and being the guy to beat through much of the training period• Obsessing endlessly about the 7 a.m. runs, and once admitting to having missed a run due to a hangover




His Serene Highness Biju Kalisseryonon



Post-Run Grimace / Endurance Award


• Going through the hassle of taking the T to come to the masochistically early training runs• Scaring the hell out of her teammates and mom through her aggressive training plan• Doing practice long runs the day before the practice long runs• Ending every run looking like a combat casualty




Her Enlightened Majesty Mithu Lahiri onon



Post-Race Indulgence / Frequent Flier Award


• Being the most injury hit runner, yet remaining cheerful and enthusiastic through the ordeal• Introducing teammates to Car-boom and variations thereof• Celebrating the marathon by making a monetary contribution to a large tobacco firm • Managing to regularly make it to weekend runs, despite only being in town two days a week




His Divine Majesty Deepak Prabhakar onon



Best Summer Hairdo / Eternal Gratitude Award


• Actually convincing a bunch of sedentary desis at the kickoff meeting that they could finish a marathon• Living at a water stop on the Minuteman Trail• Uttering the golden words, “…the best way to extend your long run, is to actually get lost.”• Managing to successfully hide his fears about the team’s chances of finishing until after the race




Respected Guruji Jonathan Wyner onon



Miles To Go Before I Sleep Award


• Managing the many checks and accounting affairs of the runners • Effortlessly completing the first half of the “Uppiliappan Two Year Marathon Training Program”• Admitting he was jealous to see the rest of the team finish• Promising to run for Asha next year and be the biggest fundraiser and qualify for the Boston Marathon




Rai Bahadur Nawab Sahib Sultan Badhri Uppiliappan

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Most Efficient And Ethical Team Member Award


• Entertaining all requests, great and small, normal and weird, night and day, on the Asha team web page• Enabling online credit card donations, thereby making it possible for even broke people with no money in the bank to donate to Asha• Resisting the temptation to use credit card information for seed capital to set up his own business




Mahageek Maharaj Aditya Parmar onon



Inexhaustible Inbox Award


• Handling the team’s travel arrangements and the financial aspect of fundraising• Getting us a hotel that dished out free cookies, and was close to the start and finish line• Having to put up with one email every time someone sponsored a runner online




His Financial Exaltedness Chetan Parekh onon


Thank you for your support


• Sponsoring the T-shirt printing for the Asha Boston/MIT 2003 Marathon• Providing carb-hungry runners with the delicious post-marathon South Indian Sunday brunch • Being a long standing friend and supporter of Asha Boston/MIT

We do hereby express our gratitude to



Ajanta Restaurant, Cambridge

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