Chai, anyone?
Any time is chai time! Are you too a teatotaler? You read it right. One of the questions nobody should ask me is how I take my tea. Seriously, helluva lot seriously, I would say! Not only that, if you like my kind of tea, we are friends forever. Maybe most of us Indians feel the same about this beverage which cheers but does not inebriate. Tea is one’s go-to drink when they are happy, sad, pleased, annoyed, with friends and family or alone, feeling sick or absolutely fine, doing something or not, working or jobless, during a break from the never-ending chores or free, travelling in a train or in a bus, in winter, rains or autumn. You can have a cup of tea even during the hot summer evenings because loha hee lohe ko kaatata hai (roughly translated: you use iron to cut/sharpen iron). Would a coffee drinker understand that? No. No wonder, coffee is not my cup of tea. You may rattle off the names of 50 types of tea you know, but the first thing you look forward to when you wake up in...