The Cha Lover

This blog has said little about its title.  Thought it can be best expressed with images. Completely inspired by Arch at Rang, I spent some very personal and precious moments with my only friend in solitude, Cha. I need to spend more time with my camera. It is indeed very relaxing.


Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.  ~T'ien Yiheng




There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.  ~Catherine Douzel


Tea should be taken in solitude.  ~C.S. Lewis


Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.  ~Thich Nat Hahn


You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.  ~C.S. Lewis


Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you.  Now tell me about hundreds of things.  ~Saki


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Sharmila said…
Beautiful snaps! :-)
Sharmila said…
Oh KG ... ekhuni tomar comment porlam amar blog e.
Just wanted to let you know ... jodi pui Bangladeshi store e pao tobe buy one or two thick stalks too ... and just put them in water for a few days. They grow roots! Tarpor plant korte parbe! And they are very hardy and maintainence free. :-)
Ami jani pui khete icche korle ar na pele kemon lage ... so could not resist sharing this with you. ;-)
Primitive Lyric said…
I see Rohinton Mistry in one of those pictures. Dont you just love him? I loved all his books. Waiting for the next one!
On that note, i'll go make myself a cup of tea and read a book;)
Debanjana said…
very nice compositions...all of them
Anonymous said…
hi, nice post. i feel similarly about cha myself. many a lonely and many a together moments with my loved ones have been spent with a cup of steaming darjeeling or dhaba chai in hand.

like your pics, beautifully composed.
indranil said…
you could have added some famous lines of your own as well ... some thing like :: all that you want to know of me //// is embedded in my pot of tea....

and the back ground picture could the cover design of your upcoming novel kept on the laptop you are writing in in.. :P :P
MangoMan said…
beautiful cups!!

and, beautiful snaps!!

sooper!
Anonymous said…
oh wow!! oh wow!! such gorgeous images.. You are truly inspired by Arch...
Anonymous said…
So different...And beautiful..And apt! :)
GB said…
I see we have the same taste in books...Big Rohinton Mistry fan here! Nice pix... :)
Rupz said…
OMG !!! Fantastic snaps !!!!!!!!
And your collection of books just makes me swoon..

Lets meet for a cuppa instead of champagne :-)
@sharmila: great tip! lemme see, if i get some good daanta!

@primitive Lyric: adore him! Simple, profoud, hard hitting. you a coffee drinker, na?

@debanjana: thank you girl. you are a cha drinker?

@sharbori: good to connect with like-minded cha lovers :)).
IK: was too lazy to :). But next cha post will have some of my own lines. will save this line you gave too for it :D

@me: oooh! thank you thank you :)

@mangoman: cha ia a very mango man drink. No wonder you like :). The current post on your blog gave me a heart attack. I wanted to leave my comments, but was offended too much (as was the post's intention) to write anything. So in the process didn't leave my footprints on your blog at all. Let the anger settle, i'll visit your space :)) and thank you :)


@choco: I'm curious to know. you a coffee or cha drinker. The mallu bit must be craving for coffee and the bong side must be asking for tea. no? or maybe you don;t have either! :D Thanks, girl!

@patty: here too? thank you :)))

@Gb: Lots of Mistry fans here!

@ rupz: first beer, then dinner and then a hot cuppa. ok?
Primitive Lyric said…
Nope! I'm a tea-drinker! Rohit is a coffee drinker. I love green tea and lemon tea (no milk). I also our ordinary masala chai made with lemon grass. Amazing!
Haddock said…
Like those sayings.
Yes Tea is something that has to be had in solitude.
There is nothing as refreshing as tea.
I noticed that all those 80+ ones are actually tea drinkers and they have their tea without milk and little sugar or no sugar.
There must be some secret to it.
Anonymous said…
Lovely pics!! You could use them as headers.... :)
Paroma Sen said…
Wow I LOVED these pics!!! Your photography is awesome m' dear! I say more, more, more!
Scribbler :) said…
I love love love the pics! You are such a talent! Is there anything you are not good at?
Anonymous said…
Awesome :-) Nice pics and perfect quotes to go with it!! I myself am not a cha-lover but a Coffee-maniac :-) But yeah, this quote is what I practise : 'Drink your tea (er, coffee) slowly and reverently'
NitaVin said…
Just my feelings ..Me a chai lover too.

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