[Reader-list] Greetings; Tea anyone?

[Tasveer Ghar]

Dear friends
A very happy new year to all of you from the Tasveer Ghar team.

To warm up your new year celebrations, may we invite you for some
garam chai vai (hot tea and so on...)

Tasveer Ghar presents a brand new visual essay:

Chai Why? The Triumph of Tea in India, as Documented in the Priya Paul
Collection of Popular Art
by Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa

http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/89/

Philip Lutgendorf takes us through a visual exploration of tea and its
popular consumption in India, as depicted in popular advertisements
and calendar images, especially from the early 20th century.

We hope this brings some warmth into the new year. Please keep
visiting Tasveer Ghar's online archive for exciting visual essays
about South Asia's popular visual culture. And do write in your
comments and feedback about the essays and images.

Thanks

Sumathi Ramaswamy, Christiane Brosius, Manishita Das, Yousuf Saeed, Suboor Bakht

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