Tea, the most popular & common beverage in India, typifies the Constitutional gospels at their best. Consumed as it is by all, transcending communal, caste, regional, gender as well as wealth schisms, it is secular in belief, socialist in approach, egalitarian in outreach and modern & liberal in outlook. A simmering cup of tea brewed with ginger savoured over the morning newspaper, makes one invigoratingly fresh to start a new day with a new vigour and to forget the yesterday like a distant past. And evening tea, or any other tea during the course of the day, is all too enlivening, as one cruises the choppy hours. Wanting a break from the humdrum, one seeks succour in a cup of tea and if into a chitchat with friends and colleagues, it is over a cup of tea. Sometimes, it seems as if Life were a cup of tea. Given to liking Tea with a liberal dose of milk and pinches of sugar with any number of cups during the day, I have been forewarned by a Doctor to reduce my sugar intake, lest my age-beaten body turns diseased. So, I have been abjuring sugar in my innumerable cups of tea for about a month now. But, the delight and pleasure of the cup of tea has deserted me. Adding to me woes, a long-time friend of mine who hardly misses a chance to pull me, surmised. tea without sugar is like marriage without romance. I could not agree with him more, as he went to suggest. Marriage sans romance breeds infidelity and forces one to migrate to trans-marital pastures. The current fad is to migrate to Green Tea and you are now well-suited to Green Tea. Acting on his advice, I have tried Green Tea with all my sincerity, but I find it awfully unsavoury, devoid of any attributes to make my mornings palatable and work-weary hours recharged. Green tea is, alas, not my cup of tea.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:47:22 +0000
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