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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-04

  • हम दीवानों की क्या हस्ती (Hum Deewano ki kya hasti)

    Meghna had given this poem to me on a piece of paper back in college… I found it a few weeks ago again, while cleaning up… and now thought of putting it at Chai ki Dukaan too! Poems and Chai could be a deadly combination actually! As far as I remember a lot of our creative work back in college took place while we were having tea at a Chai ki Dukaan “up the hill across the road down the street” from college… beautiful days!

    हम दीवानों की क्या हस्ती,
    हम आज यहाँ कल वहां चले
    मस्ती का आलम साथ चला,
    हम धूल उडाते जहाँ चले

    आए बनकर उल्लास अभी
    आँसू बनकर बह चले अभी,
    सब कहते ही रह गए,
    अरे तुम कैसे आए, कहाँ चले?

    किस ओर चले? यह मत पूछो,
    चलना है, बस इसलिए चले,
    जग से उसका कुछ लिए चले,
    जग को अपना कुछ दिए चले।

    दो बात कही, दो बात सुनी,
    कुछ हँसे और फिर कुछ रोये,
    छक कर सुख दुःख घूंटों को
    हम एक भाव से पिए चले।

    हम भिखमंगों की दुनिया में
    स्वछंद लुटा कर प्यार चले,
    हम एक निशानी सी उर पर,
    ले असफलता का भार चले

    हम मान रहित, अपमान रहित
    जी भरकर खुलकर खेल चुके,
    हम हँसते हँसते आज यहाँ
    प्राणों की बाजी हार चले!

    हम भला बुरा सब भूल चुके,
    नतमस्तक हो मुख मोड़ चले,
    अभिशाप उठाकर होठों पर
    वरदान दृगों से छोड़ चले

    अब अपना और पराया क्या?
    आबाद रहे रुकने वाले!
    हम स्वयं बंधे थे,
    और स्वयं हम अपने बंधन तोड़ चले!

     – भगवतीचरण वर्मा

    The photograph was taken at Iskon Temple, Vrindavan

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27

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  • चाय की दुकान में आपका स्वागत है ! Welcome to Chai ki Dukaan

    It would be a shame to come to blog called Chai ki Dukaan and not go through a cup load of Chai Pictures!!! Here is Tea from wherever I have been to, for you!!!

    Also this post is going to be a sticky one, which means that the new ones are going to be visible right below it, and this one stays on the top so that you can get to see ChaiChitra when you come to Chai ki Dukaan next!

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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-07

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  • Name Servers

    For the technical inclined Name Servers are a common thing to be referred to!!!

    I had been facing the issues with NS for my url www.chaikidukaan.com since the time I started the migration from blogger to WP…. Somehow managed to figure out the issue today, and am able to complete a tracert of chaikidukaan.com to my domain space provider… Can think of the next steps now!

  • चायबाज़ श्वेता (Chaibaaz Shweta)

    Unbelievable! The last chaibaaz post on this blog was way back in April 2011! Not acceptable!
    However to break this long break, is a beautiful photograph from an equally lovely photographer Shweta Verma, based out of Switzerland! I love going through her work, and I am sure you would do! Please do go through The Creative Lens and make sure to book a slot in the Autumn Promo she is currently running!

    Green Tea

    Thank you! Shweta for letting me use this photograph for Chaibaaz series, and welcome to the Chaibaaz family 🙂
    Oh and if you are still reading this post (I wonder why though 🙂 You should be on TCL already), do check out the rest of Chaibaaz posts by clicking here.

  • Chaibaaz Dithi (चायबाज़ दिथी )

    My mailbox conked off, and I could not check this email from Dithi for a while, and when I finally managed to access it today, I felt so super nice reading her thoughts about Tea..
    Dithi is an amazing artist based out of Geneva, and I do not have words to express how beautiful her work is! Please do visit the links at the end of this post to explore Dithi’s world of mind blowing paintings!

    – Why Tea?

    ….‘coz it makes you feel like you are home, you are warm and everything is going to be fine when you take that first morning sip. Almost 4 years in Europe (read: being surrounded by café lovers & Espresso fanatics) couldn’t take the chai lover out of me, if anything, I hold on to it more sip by sip.

    – What if you had to make a flavor of tea, what would you have in it, other than Tea leaves?

    Grated juicy ginger bits, crushed Cardamom/Elaichi, cloves, a couple of crushed black peppercorns, a nice ghazal and some sufi songs in a husky female voice!

    – What would you do if you were given two days in a tea estate?

    I would try not to get lost!! Wait, let me explain where that came from: Way back, sometime in the 70s, my parents were visiting the Makaibari tea estate and my mom and sis could not find their way back from the ladies room for a little while. That made a rather scary picture of a tea estate in my mind, of being this endless 3D maze that you never find your way out of if you get lost.
    That image was crushed (phew!) on our visit to the Munnar tea estate. It’s unreal; you are surrounded by beauty and serenity. I’d like to just listen to good music, help myself to a serious tea drinking indulgence and, of course, let all that inspiration find expression in a little bit of artwork may be?

    – Tea in a cup? or Tea in a steel glass? or Tea in a kulhad (earthen cups) or tea in a paper cup? or tea in a glass? and why?

    Kulhad on the road, whenever possible, am a Bengali who loves her ‘cha’ in the ‘bhaand’ (Bengali name for the delightful terracotta cup). At home, I like collecting handmade ceramic cups and mugs by various artists all over the world. I also enjoy observing the various ways in which tea is served in different countries, e.g. Moroccan tea in coloured decorative glasses, Chinese tea in white or blue porcelain cups, etc., that sort makes the tea drinking experience that much more exciting and authentic.

    – What is your earliest memory of Tea?

    Earliest and strongest 2 memories:
    1. Dad having several cups of very strong tea all through the day, he still does. He is the unparalleled tea King in the family!
    2. We were not encouraged (read: not allowed) to have tea as kids.

    – Do you remember when you had tea for the first time? Is it related to why you like tea so much?

    Because it was such a big deal for me to have tea as a kid, I remember, one of the joys of the newly found freedom when I moved out of home for the first time to stay as a paying guest in Kolkata (while in college) was being served tea for breakfast everyday! When I went back home after that, the tea-rule changed. That was such a ‘grown-up-&-can-have-tea’ moment!

    – Your favorite T-shop? and why?

    Many. Dolly’s tea boutique in Kolkata, love the Fab India Organic Tulsi tea, in Geneva I love buying caddies from Terre D’oc and Teakoe.

    – Your favorite brand of tea and why?

    I like Tata teas for the desi masala cup, Tetley Early Grey for a flavourful cup of black and Terre d’Oc blends for an occasional designer organic tea (their spicy black from India and Earl Grey from China are super!)

    – Your favorite website related to Tea and why?

    Many, you’ll know why when you hop over:
    http://www.rangacupofchai.blogspot.com/
    http://www.chaikidukaan.com/
    http://www.terredoc.com/english/Default.aspx#
    http://www.teacaddy.czi.cz/

    – If Tea was a person, what would that mean to you? What would that person be like?

    Would be a ‘he’; dynamic and strong, yet, a much grounded person whose company would be nothing less than therapy for my often-jittery nerves.

    – Your favorite T-picture please…

    – Your favorite T-quote

    Well, I came across this Japanese proverb recently and loved it: ‘If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.’ So true!

    – Your website/blog
    This concludes the Tea Talks series for now, except that I am to answer these questions and post them here 🙂
    Have you checked AndPictures yet? Here is the link : www.andpictures.net

  • Chaibaaz Ioannis

    I knew I had to post the following photograph in Chaibaaz Series as soon as I saw it on Flickr! Wrote to the artist, and he was kind enough to let me post!

    the first glass is as bitter as life...
    The photograph has been taken in Morocco (Jan 2011). I really liked the proverb along with this photograph Ioannis posted…

    the first glass is as bitter as life…
    …the second glass is as strong as love,
    the third glass is as gentle as death

    Used with permission from www.lelakis.com
    Copyright © Ioannis Lelakis

    Please do visit his flickr page here to see the stunning photography, and get inspired!