How and why do Indians drink hot tea/coffee on a hot summer day?

 Do you know, what was the drink before a century, in the morning? It is “neeragaram- cold rice drink” prior to 1915.

“In those days there was no Coffee, Tea”. British taught us to drink tea- we are following it.

Coffee, Tea in India, began its career in India as a beverage for Europeans.

Despite their early advent in eighteenth century in Karnataka, it did not take root until 1915 or so, when Indians start to consume well in significant numbers.

Coffee become the drink of Tamil Middle Class / Women and the other of Coffee, “tea” was seen as a working class / Muslim drink by 1943.

“Low Price; High Quality” advertised tea is served across textile mills in India. Indian Tea Marketing board served tea in B&C Mills, 4annas per worker for a month.

Pre independence promotion included, serving free tea to the public places at large, alongwith sample pouches.

Within a century, India has advanced beyond Tea to liquor consumption.

The only society victimized in the “tea business” is Tamil Society by the British - exploited, rendered stateless, mass assasinated in other colonial regions.

The economics of tea cultivation and its exploitive nature, is conveniently ignored by the Western Countries and World Organizations.

Tamil Diaspora has spread over the good part of the world working as labor, especially Tea and Coffee plantation workers, hence the Tamil language’s dubious distinction of giving the word “coolie” to the world. Balas film “Paradesi” depicts the agonies of tea plantation workers.

British, not only looted precious treasures, idols, jewels in Tamil Temples, they made tamils poor, converted many to christianity, they human traffic to other colonial countries, exploited as coolies, and left them stateless - made them refugees from Myanmer, Ceylon to Independent India, which created massacres of tamils by majorities of other ethnic communities.

Always remember. whenever you drink hot tea in morning or hot summer, that tea has exploited tamil blood in it, alongwith tea leaves, sugar and milk.