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Shalini Raj was a coffee enthusiast while her friends were big on tea. While at a café a few years ago, she recalls a conversation around how the “T&C - terms and conditions in life stands for travel and
chai.”
“Travel already ruled my life as I was running a Gurugram-based travel startup Journey Weavers but I told them chai is something that just doesn’t have a place in her life in any big way,” she says.
In April, tea became a part of Shalini’s life in the most interesting way. When the coronavirus sent all of India into a lockdown, Shalini returned to her hometown in Ranchi. She happened to strike a conversation with her neighbour’s visitor, a lady in her 50s who owned a tea garden in Darjeeling.