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Ae Bhutkun, do cup chai banao, kadak!

(Hey Bhutkun, make two cups of tea, strong!)

You’d be living under a rock if you hadn’t heard these lines, either through the various Instagram reels about chai on your phone or while watching the wildly famous slice of village life web series Panchayat.

Tea and coffee are deeply steeped in our daily lives. It inspires the cinema, music, literature and pop culture around, but many times it does the other way around. Remember how ‘chai dates’ became a thing after Aisha tells Sid that the two of them and two cups of tea is enough to call it a ‘party’. So today, we look at such memorable tea and coffee moments from pop culture both from India and around the world - and how they influenced the way we bond with each other, one delightful sip at a time.

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Witnessing Village Life, The Banrakas Way

Since we started off talking about the web series Panchayat, one of our favourite bits plays out at th

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