In Didin’s (my maternal grandmother) house in Kolkata there were many storage cupboards inset into the thick walls with glass doors. And in one of these was the ‘Japani tea set’. It was the most luxurious of all the tea paraphernalia that the family owned and, as my mother told me once, was often borrowed by the extended family living nearby whenever they had important guests for tea. Tea was undoubtedly a very important part of daily life in Didin’s house and though the elaborately deco
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