Bhadralok Cha News Today

Drinka Cuppa The Teas Perhaps the greatest Indian manoeuvre against China is the cha manoeuvre. Tea, after all, is a Chinese herb and tea drinking was a Chinese practice. Englishman Samuel Pepys writes in his famous diary in 1661, “I sent for a cup of tea (a Chinese drink), of which I had never drank before.” The Indian offering came much later. In The Indian Tea Gazette of 1881, one Samuel Baildon writes how in 1839 samples of the first ...