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This post has been published by me as a team member of The Blue Ink Society for the SUPER 4 round of Bloggers Premier League (BPL) – The first ever unique, elite team blogging of blog world. To catch the BPL action and also be part of future editions and other contests, visit and register at Cafe GingerChai Cover Story at The Blue Ink Society's E-mag WTF!- Where Time Flies.. Click to read more

This post has been published by me as a team member of The Blue Ink Society for the SUPER 5 round of Bloggers Premier League (BPL) – The first ever unique, elite team blogging of blog world. To catch the BPL action and also be part of future editions and other contests, visit and register at Cafe GingerChai 18 year old Champa had arrived to work as a Nanny for me when I was a 10 year old. A Gujrati high school drop-out, she had confessed time and again that she found it extremely difficult to survive in Mumbai where life was getting increasingly influenced by the English language, with each passing day. I soon realized that my proactive mother had dutifully taken up her cause without further dilly-dally. She could play Nanny the rest of the time but that one hour every evening, she’d take up my homework and also sit Champa down for her lessons. Many lessons in numbers, alphabets and building of words later, progress was still very slow but my mother in all perseverance had gon...

This post has been published by me as a team member of The Blue Ink Society for the SUPER 6 round of Bloggers Premier League (BPL) – The first ever unique, elite team blogging of blog world. To catch the BPL action and also be part of future editions and other contests, visit and register at Cafe GingerChai                          The clinking of glasses, rustling of newspapers and gossip interspersed with an outbreak of loud laughter. Manoj, popularly known as Munna Chaiwala had started another day with a clang of the ladle against the walls of the blackening vessel and brewing sweet Adrak Chai . This life would have been a mundane routine for most Chaiwalas but not for him. His Shankar Vilas Tea Stall stood right across the road from Yash Raj Studios. There was enough Filmy gossip in the air, to keep him grinning and his heart thumping with excitement. Lik...

1st splendid idea was the Bloggers Premier League  launched by Cafe Ginger Chai.  2nd splendid idea was to bring the best of the best and distribute them into formidable teams with their awesomely designed respective logos, Baselines et al! I belong to THE BLUE INK SOCIETY and boy am I proud of my team or what! Kudos to Cafe Gingerchai.. 3rd was a gem of an idea that came up when the team members met to strategise our next move at BPL, from Rituji  our team speaker.. She thought that we could all shine like gorgeous and priceless BLUE GEMs at BPL and nicknamed all of us aptly... Know each of our team player better at how we can catch your eye through a skit presented at Cafe Ginger Chai, titled ' Ginger Chai Ka Kamaal '