Monday, April 23, 2012

Symphony in Dosai Major.....


There is something to be applauded about folks, who avidly visit some great eating places, and just as the food arrives, they click great pictures, and post them , to share with folks far away. 

Particularly if they are inveterate travellers, travel writers, photographers et al, who are more habituated to clicking hills, oceans, temples, sunsets , camels and so on.

 It is indeed an additional pleasure when my blog and FB friend, Nisha Jha, specifically tags me in a visual, as she visits Vidyarthi Bhavan in Bengaluru, and tucks , with great relish, into her share of Dosais and South Indian Coffee (Kapi), brought to her table, in the manner shown.  And Kudos to the gentleman for keeping stuff in perfect balance....

 (and no, Nisha Jha didn't eat all that she photographed)
Resonance
with
the Accordion School of Architecture,
replete
with vertically
enabled windows and blinds,
along with even
straight and upright
conservative
images of light.

He arrives
with the fragrant,
lefthanded
ghee infested,
masala accordion bellows,
a new technique
incorporating
steel plates
alternating with
fresh stuffed folded dosais,
amidst heavenly
chutney-sambaar cutlery music.

He remembers
all the musical notes,
ordered just so,
and in a
final aria
extends the bellows,
and serves it all
to a delighted audience,
his right hand
ensuring
each one his choice.

Another table,
another song,
and the bellows move again,
creating more music,
sometimes sada,
sometimes masala,
but almost always
ending
with a crescendo filter kapi.....


12 comments:

  1. Yum verse. You make me hungry with your poetry. :)

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  2. Thank you so much once again, Suranga for the lovely lines. :-)

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    1. Nisha, Thank you ! Next time have an extra dosa on me ....:-)

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    2. One dosa was more than enough for me... dripping in pure ghee... the aroma ... ahaa ha *drooool*

      So next time I'll eat only for you. :-)

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  3. Wow, what a choice of words... as tasty as the dosa looks :)

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  4. nicely u have described . will have to visit VB soon

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  5. Your words are so apt for the picture, Suranga! The example of accordion suits so well. Great!

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    1. Sandhya, thank you. And I am totally impressed with the waiter...

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    2. Even I am impressed with him ! :)

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