My mother hands me a box in which sits a bone china teapot, sugar bowl and creamer with six cups and saucers, all in a dull pink with a gold rim. In the Museum of Material Memory, a digital repository of material culture of India, its founder and oral historian, Aanchal Malhotra, writes about Hitkari, a homegrown brand that changed …
This week, I got to hear a remarkable love story, one that somewhat reminds me of another famous one from history that also features tea, that of Napoleon and Josephine. The collection that begins from 10th century BC from all over the world tells tea’s long, turbulent, poetic, discordant, economic and artistic history. “Did you know,” he says, “that there …
