Sunday, October 26, 2014

from CHAI pe CHARCHA to HIGH Teas!!! MODI's affiniTEAs!!!

There is something about Modi. No, before you think that this is a Gujju remake of the Hollywood smash hit, it is a thought that I have been harboring over the last few days. He takes time out to sweep the streets, congratulating scientists, inaugurating hospitals, giving a concert in New York (OK - the rock star image was media manufactured). How does this man manage all this? What drives him on and on and on....

In a tete a tete with the man himself, Modi revealed that his unending stamina comes from having copious cups of SHAHi chai. That he was a humble chaiwala is now legendary. 


Most of Modi's decisions are taken over high teas or chai charchas. What actually conspires in these meets? What is the usual fare at such dos? Lets take a peek into one such event held today. 

Fragrant aromas of freshly brewed  tea leaves wafted as I neared the entrance. A tea stall has been set up just like it exists across the length and breadth of our nation. 


The tea vendor who looked familiar, informed that these were the best of the Assam tea leaves; specially identified and hand picked after detailed scrutiny. Individual leaves are spotted and then determined whether to be plucked or not. 

This is done by none other than...



The other specialty about this tea is the milk. Modi likes it no other way.  Nothing besides the best quality milk goes into these teas. The milk that children of India drink. In spite of it being out of service and out of production, Modi, somehow manages to procure it. 



To accompany the unending cups of tea, Modi has a childhood fetish. He dunks biscuits into the tea and at that very precise moment, when it seems that the dipped portion of the biscuit is going to secede from it's mainland, he pulls it off from the tea and savours it (SC - this ones for you!!!).

Not just any other biscuit, but the one coming from the Grand Old family of India. 


Today's high tea is for all the BJP ministers to discuss road ahead. Among other dignitaries, also expected is Mr. Nitin Gadkari. As a contingency measure, some snacks has also been ordered. With Gadkari around, one never knows. 


Modi surely knows how to mix business with pleasure!!!!

Coming up next - what gets discussed in these parTEA meetings!!!!

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