CHAI GARAM  CHAI

Millions of cups of TEA/CHAI each day, we Indians happily consume

It is almost a must every morning, evening and before we work resume

Lures us its aroma at home or when we pass by a tea-stall, tempting are its fumes

One of the most consumed drinks in India is definitely chai, anyone can this presume

Huge varieties there are, count  one cannot; but the most famous I guess is Masala chai

Most Indians, specially Gujjus, this thoroughly enjoy; even foreigners must definitely it try.

Every morning a fresh cup of boiling chai makes your day; ah! that cup of "garma-garam chai"

My  most favorites are the aadu-ilaichi (ginger cardamom) n Bawaji special, the fudhina-leeli-chai

Once you sip it, along with Bun-Muska, almost addicted you are, you get a "Chaska" true.

There is an art in concocting a good cup of chai; one must know  how to it properly brew

Sadly I wasn't allowed to taste coffee or tea/chai when young, I tasted it, only when I grew

Tea here, is a drink old, but the Brits loved it n made it famous; so, chai is old tea is new

Armin Dutia Motashaw

અનારની અરજ

ભૂલકાંઓ, આપણી પરંપરા ભૂલે થી બી ભૂલયે નહીં, રાખજો સદા આં ધ્યાન

ઉત્તમ આવે પરિણામ, જ્યારે પરંપરાગત તરીકતો સાથે મળે આપણું બોહળું જ્ઞાન

આં દેઅપાદર રોજે, ચાલો હળી મળી ને નાના મોટા, સૌ કરીયે ચૂલાનો સત્કાર

માનવએ જ્યારથી રાંધતા શીખ્યું, ત્યારથી જરૂર આપ્યો હશે એને, ચૂલાને આવકાર

અન્ન અને અગ્નિ, જળ અને વાયુ કુદરતની છે બક્ષેશો ખરેજ અણમોલ

એમને માન સન્માન આપી આદર સત્કાર કરવો જોઈએ, એજ છે, જીવનની સાર્થકતા, એનું મોલ.

Armin Dutia Motashaw

MY BOMBAY

Please look around to see how killing is the heat

Look at the poor humans, birds and beast on the hot sweltering street !

That's why to plant trees n plants, at least one or two, I again repeat

Search you may, a corner near your home, society, road or near your office-seat

Plant a spider plant, Money plant, bamboo, and even gift your friends you meet

Let us, our Bombay turn beautiful; lush green and clean n neat

Trees n greeenery other also will help to, this awful summer heat beat.

If every Bombayite a tree plants, we can Rawalpindi or Chandigarh, easily beat

Should we accept this challenge??? Then summer heat will definitely retreat

Armin Dutia Motashaw

MEMORIES WE LOVINGLY TREASURE.....

HAPPY EASTER

Ever dearest Grandma, Leena and Arlene, my most beloved people from the city of Niagara falls

Every single day, through all these years, remember you I, at all daybreaks n as each night falls

Come Easter, and gush those  beautiful warm n tender memories; it's then we  desperately miss you all.

This relationship so deep n loving, is from some life past, or it would not have into our life, ever occur

These incidences rare,  happen do not in one's daily life; they are predestined n do not often reoccur.

Anyone, who so ever has heard our story, would about this, most definitely authenticate, validate and concur.

It's almost a miracle the way we met; it was of course the Lord's plan; and definitely not just a mere coincidence

Our shivering in that bitter cold, Leena's passing by, our requesting a lift; her taking us around the falls, was a miraculous incidence.

Then meeting dearest Grandma;  her instantaneously loving n cuddling us, n above all, in her life, giving us precedence

Endless was the showering of love, gifts, blessings n beautiful compliments, it deeply touched my heart

Of her huge joint-family of seventy-two, turning it to seventy-five, making us now an important part.

Thank you dearest Grandma, Leena n Arlene for the immense love and joy you gave us. We shall always endearingly carry it in our hearts

LOVE NEVER DIES

Happy Easter to all of you in Heaven

Armin Dutia Motashaw

My Mithra

Remember you cannot gulp back your words, just like arrows once shot, cannot be retrieved.

Armin Dutia Motashaw

RAM NAVMI


Whether you believe it or not, or think It's a legend, reality or just another story of strife;

Ramayana is worth following at each and every stage in one's personal life.

Today, this if we had followed well; n blindly not the western world;

Things different would be in our modern India; if His principles, we didn't hurl

May we follow Ram's footsteps, irrespective of our religion or religious beliefs

May Ram's ancient Bharat again lead the world; let's please turn on a new leaf.

May once again Bharat Mata shine and lead other nations towards prosperity n peace

This beautiful country is not just mere land; it is our rich heritage, don't slice it into many a piece.

Best Wishes to enliven the Ram, that lives within each of us.

Armin Dutia Motashaw

हवा का एक जोंका

जाने कहाँ चला गया तू, बनके हवा का एक जोंका

न मेरी आवाज़ सुनी, क्यों किसीने तुझे ज़रा भी नहीं रोका !

एक आंधी आइ, उड़ा कर ले गयी तुझे, लूट गया मेरा बहुत कुछ

एक पल भर में ही, मेरा जीवन बदल गया सचमुच !

लूटके वो ले गयी साथ तुझे, बिखर गया हमारा संसार

जीवन नैया डूब गई मझधार में ही, पहुँच पायी न उस पार

Armin Dutia Motashaw