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Hot Tea Across India (2011)

by Rishad Saam Mehta(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9381626103 (ISBN13: 9789381626108)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Westland Limited

review 1: Hot Tea across India is a book about tea all over the lay of the country. It is about the author’s obsession with travelling on his Bullet and otherwise and exploring lands, and while doing so drinking tea as he and his friends go along journeys over periods of time. Tea is something which is available anywhere in India. It is almost the staple or national drink of the sub-continent and it is around this that the author weaves his travelogue. Tea as tasted across his journeys. From Manali to Rajasthan to Delhi to Mumbai. The experiences are varied and brilliantly accounted for in this book. Rishad Saam Mehta was working with Autocar India and it is through them that he took to writing and photography. The pieces are well-written, though not all talk about tea and that’... mores what one will expect, given the title. At the same time, the writing is very good, especially when Mehta describes scenery and breathtaking Himalayan ranges as he is riding past them or setting camp. My favourite chapters in the book were about food – what is available on the highway roadside eateries to what can be cooked by strangers who become acquaintances and then friends. Throughout the book, I wondered how good it would be if the book could be substantiated with pictures. That would be a reader’s delight. All in all Hot Tea across India was a good reading experience to start off the year.
review 2: Mr Mehta has had the good fortune of gone through several rather interesting encounters that the rest of us may not be gifted with. Not just that, I envy his memory as well - he's been able to recollect some of these to a great detail and put them across in a format that goes well with someone who has a good sense of humor.The book, essentially, is a collection of short stories about Mr Mehta and finding a cup of tea, traveling around India, from Srinagar to Kerala, through different modes of transportation (motorbike, car, trucks, ...). Some of the experiences are, as mentioned before, rather delightful to read, and they do inspire one to travel. Someone who enjoys biking, traveling & eating would probably find this book a good read.My only gripe - the finish was rather abrupt. I was hoping Mr Mehta would end it rather grandly considering the expectations that his range of experiences had set in the pages before. less

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