The chai party…

I don’t know when did I get assimilated in this group…from the time I started the project I was always away from the team and even after I started working with the team ,this group was away and joined the team much later. I used to always have my evening tea at my desk,working around…but it was gentle insistence by a few members of this group that I started going with this group. Language was not a problem here since they all (except one) spoke my mother tongue. Always been around cosmopolitan group I managed only hindi. Marathi was always reserved for home and family members and relatives. Since my better half never conversed in marathi (which is obvious since his mother tongue is hindiJ) it was only when a call from my home that I switched to marathi. But not any more…for breakfast lunch and tea I always converse in marathi…it’s a breather and definitely at home feeling…mainly because my hindi is typical bambaiya mixed liberally with slangs and smatterings marathi and gujrati etc etc, I am constantly tutuored by my better half who is a hindi papad (again a slang used for any one who knows a lot about a particular thing) n its definitely me who never learns J
So leaving all this aside…its this chai party that enabled me to find friends including the one who serves chai…who at times partakes in small jokes along with us. We gather at the “tapri” as we call it only for our evening tea. When the whole group joins its fun definitely but even when few of us join its great. Usually its only “cutting” or “bi/2” chai but sometimes it is spiced with farsaan with chopped onions or alu pav or omlette pav (nt me) if someone is real hungry or samosa pav…but mostly its chit chatting without malice that attracts me to this chai party, it’s the idea of where to draw a line even in jokes that attacts me here…and mostly it’s the place which takes me aways from daily tensions of life…and career…but above all it’s the wonderful feeling of at home…a chai party with friends…