The Madras Filter kaapi(n) sabhai
Chenthil and I are proposing a small club for like minded citizens of Madras, Mylapore preferably. Modelled on the lines of the great ‘Mylapore brahmanargal sangam’, the Madras filter kaapi sabhai is a place to meet comrades every week over a davara-tumbler of piping hot filter coffee, Brittania Marie biscuits and discuss the merits and demerits of the Madras coffee.
Our other activities are detailed below.
- Lament the fact that the vulgar American culture of coffee pubs and kapuchino are killing the traditional South Indian Coffee
- Campaign to extend protection to the indigenous coffee brewers
- Lobby for tax benefits to those drinking more than 20 cups of filter coffee in a week
- Petition the government to ban the custom of giving kids pocket money, who are spending it all on barista and cafe coffee day. (Kandraavi. ara kuraia, thopil theriyara maadiri dress panikkara ponnungala…)
Membership to the club on a first come, first serve basis (no pun intended). Members are expected to write eloquent letters to the Editor, the Reader’s Editor and the Editor’s Reader of The Hindu, on how filter coffee and Hindu are the Tamil, Madras way of life. And how Deccan Chronicle is conspiring to put an end to it by tying up with Baristas of the world.
All of my dear and near friends in the blahgosphere who want to join Chenthil and myself, please do leave your comments.
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June 23rd, 2006 at 7:30 pm
I am in as long as there is no good involved. but my only condition is that you and chenthil wear thopil theriyara maadiri dress.
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Me Me Me Me please. I would love to join in this movement against the coffee shops, please.
PS: Would i be allowed to have a cup of tea instead with loads of sugar the indian way, as I don’t really drink cofee much.
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:27 pm
WA: Remember… not just sugar.. Indian tea is boiled with milk (yuck!)
June 24th, 2006 at 2:48 am
Alpha – NOOOOOOOOO Don’t think thats gonna be a pretty sight
Well alright then I will stick to coffee, do we get to have pora bun with it as well?
June 24th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Waat is dis, you big peebul and all taaking like you are pista NRI from west. Ravages, this is a good topic to talk abt…NRIs and their tea issues.
June 24th, 2006 at 8:29 am
LOL!
@Alpha: Ayyayo: Me and Chenthil in that kandraavi dress….no!
@WA: Tea drinkers can join, but they are not allowed to sit in the main room of the club. They cannot sit in the presence of the coffee-drinkers and they cannot travel in buses.
@Anand:
@WA(again): Alright. You have redeemed yourself a bit here. I like pora bun, so you can travel on buses, on the condition that you display your permit – the pora-bun, when asked for.
@Alpha-2 (note the wit here, your honour) Yes, big topic to talk about.
June 24th, 2006 at 9:36 am
can I join? im still wondering why I wasnt treated to filter coffee and instead taken to a coffee house where the drinks took an hour to arrive that too after they roasted the nuts on the spot it seems not that they were less nutty – in chennai
so hello filter coffee pls and bhaji too ;p
June 24th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Pista NRI-aaa? I thought single tea and pora bun was as Indian as you could get? You guys all haven’t got a clue about the real India.
June 25th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
I will join as long as everyone promises to keep their thopil’s and other parts of anatomy under cover. After all I am kutthu vilakku of family and chief coffee drinker. My eyes cannot be exposed to such kandraavi.
My filter, coffee powder and tumbler davara are ready.
June 25th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
@Shofie:
Welcome.
I solemnly promise to be undercovers. As Plum puts it, I find “Being as snug as a bug under a rug” perfect for coffee.
I won’t make the same promise for Chenthil, but I do know that on this matter, he and I are of the same mind.
I hope the coffee powder you have is Leo. Plantation A (49%) + Peaberry (49%) and 2% chicory
June 25th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
@Visithra: Hehe, Bajji is good. Yes. Bajji goes well with coffee. I am not sure he would agree though.
June 27th, 2006 at 2:50 am
Nice and all, but co-organizer enga? Sathathaye kaanum! I like to join provided, who’s going to make the coffee?
July 1st, 2006 at 1:43 pm
how about some dental flossing discount coupons for the coffee lovers?