Mapusa Market, April 2015
Photographers Manoj Jadhav and David Turnley bond over chai in Aldona, Goa
Banarasi, Chaiwala, Old Delhi. This image is from the People of India Project.
Meter chai gets its name from the way the chai maker pours chai between the glass and a larger container to mix.
A Chai shop, Bengaluru Railway Station
Chai station at Kohinoor restaurant at Brigade Road, Bengaluru. It closed down a few years ago, and an era ended.
A winter morning in Lapodiya, Rajasthan, 2004.
An Image by photographer Dinesh Khanna. Ceramic cups and saucers have made way for paper and plastic cups. Apparently, in the olden days, it was a custom to pour tea from the cup into the saucer, offer the cup with some tea to the other person, and drink from the saucer. Apparently, it was a sign to say that one had not poisoned the tea!
Deepa Mondal. I made this photograph several years ago in Orissa. She used to live with less than Rs.15/- per day. She was a survivor of the super cyclone of 1999. She was so poor, yet she was troubled that she could not offer me tea.
Glendale Tea Estate, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu
The small, quaint post offices are the remnants of a slower way of life, not necessarily easier.
A crèche at a tea estate in southern India. Tea industry is known for the disinterest in labour welfare, estates in southern India make sure that the labourers are well looked after.
A priest at a Hindu Temple in a tea estate
A small town in the Nilgiris, South India
At Adderley tea estate