Table of Contents
Part I — Stories from 28 October 2006
- My tea and coffee experiences
- The mystery of tea bags
- The African ambassador takes tea
- Graduating to coffee
- The first sip of espresso
- Tea and ice cream
- How I stopped drinking tea and coffee
Part II — Stories recounted over the years
- My tea-prophecy
- Zatopek offers chai
- The Brazilian coffee vendor
- Coffee before the race
- Only tea on my flight to Bermuda
- Room service in Bermuda
- Bengalis go out for coffee
- Tea in the bakery
- The Italian restaurant in Venezuela
- "Go have a cup of coffee!"
- Coffee and fever
- Brenda Smith's hospitality
- Tea and coffee from the Bishop
- My new oath
- Nolini-da and Amrita-da drink tea together
- Tea at a high price
- Airport tea
- No tea during Ramadan
- Taking tea at Ramana Maharshi's ashram
- No fish, no tea
- Sri Aurobindo and Suresh Chandra Chakravarty drink tea
- Is God a coffee-drinker?
- Coffee this side, water that side
- Surendra Mohan Ghosh drinks tea with Nolini-da
- Pandit Ravi Shankar sees a parrot sipping tea
- Swami Vivekananda and the poisoned coffee
- God-realisation is not like instant coffee
- Chocolate instead of tea
- Only coffee for Raisa Maximovna
- My pride is smashed by tea
- Tagore's peculiar way of drinking tea
- Kabhul: a short story
