The pao, the bread and her. पाव, ब्रेड अणि ती..

The photographer, a blogger friend , went berserk, photographing posh and home type breads on a visit to Goa (a popular state on India's west coast).

I just wondered what the breads might be thinking....(in Marathi and in English....actually I just realized that most of the breads would have spoken Konkani :-)


(both photos by Harekrishanji)

काही पंचतारांकित पाव ,
सरळ गोव्याला गेले,
गुबगुबीत ओव्हन मधून
चीज कडे हसत बघत ,
काही गोड साखरेचे फेटे घालून,
तर काही भारदस्तपणाचा
आव आणत ,
तिरक्या फळीवर रेलून
आपला वजन सांभाळत,
मधूनच एखाद्या
फोरेन वाल्या फळाचा आधार घेत
आल्या गेल्या कडे आशेने बघू लागले ....
आणि
चूप चाप , एकीकडे
कुणा एका अमूलच्या आनंदात
भिजून निघालेला,
गोव्याचाच ,
पण एक घरगुती साधा पाव
एका फटाकड्या बटाट्याच्या भाजी बरोबर
मसालेदार गप्पा करत होता



Five star
posh loaves
fresh and golden
from a six star oven,
some,
smirking at the cheese,
some,
with lashings of sugar,
and some,
in fashionable repose
on tilted shelves,
weighted down in importance
as they
dream
about
their own
personal
five star
fruit accompaniment....

Meanwhile,
away to one side,
a local pao (bread)
totally
gone to pieces,
under the slather of
a buttery Amul,
cracks up,
as it
continues
its spicy tete-a-tete,
with the
sizzling potato curry.....