The People’s Brew – July 2019
Dear Chai Lover, We’re back with the latest edition of our newsletter for the month of July! Thanks to some disturbances in Area 51, the Chandrayaan launch, the FaceApp challenge and all that’s been happening around the world, it’s taken us a bit longer than usual to reach you...
Good Reads with Chai – Carl Sagan Special – July 19
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines,...
Substituting Plastic
Over the past year or so, there has been a sudden spike in global awareness about the harm plastic causes to the environment because it’s non bio-degradable. Plastic trash islands in seas and oceans, big landfillls that seem to be only accumulating waste and such visual representations have ushered...
Break For Breakthroughs
A wise man once said “Taking a break can lead to breakthroughs” and over time, that statistic has proved to be a corollary. Sometimes the only way to declutter the mind is to move a little away from the clutter itself. Imagine staring at your screen for an idea...
Tea for Yoga – World Yoga Day 2019
Since time immemorial, Yoga has been known to recuperate and rejuvenate both mind and body. Similarly, the practice of drinking tea can be traced back several eras in history and has been known to reinvigorate the system from within. White, Oolong, Green and Black Teas contain tannin and caffeine...
Cricket and Chai – ICC World Cup 2019
We adore our cricket here in India. So much so, that over time and globalisation, cricket events over the world owe India so much to selling out matches and generating big revenue thanks to the large spread of Indians across the globe. In the last decade, with the emergence...
World Milk Day
World Milk Day is a day established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to recognize the importance of milk as a global food. It has been observed on June 1 each year since 2001. The day is intended to provide an opportunity to bring attention to activities that...
Good Reads with Chai – May 2019
Having set you off on a path of enlightenment last time around, with a books and brews listing to get your pineal gland all activated, we thought we’d go one further, and maybe help you consolidate this little reading sojourn, we might have you set off on. While we...
Composting Chai
With the echoes of Earth Day still ringing through eager ears, we thought we’d identify a step in the right direction in a fun, DIY setting – composting tea leaves. Tea leaves are an efficient source of organic material for gardens and compost pits, as well as soil enrichment....
The Nearly Lost Art of Reading with Chai
In this day and age of multiple streaming services, offer-loaded set top boxes, audiobooks and a whole lot of other stuff to consume, reading a book is now something of an underground cult. As attention spans are collectively reducing across the world, and prescription medications are being dished out...