The thing that I look forward to as soon as I wake up is a cup of tea. A great cup of tea, makes me feel at peace in the mornings. Even if I wake up late around 11am or 12pm on some days, I freshen up and go straight to making some tea.

I got used to drinking tea while I was working in Bangalore at Wipro. During those days, I would never make tea myself, I’d just go out to shops near where I was living and have some tea there. It would only cost me around 10Rs, and those vendors used to make amazing tea. Also there used to be a tea shop after every 100m where I lived.

I used to have tea all the time - before meetings, while debugging code or fixing bugs, sometimes I used to have it after I had my dinner at night.

Even today, if I’m in a bad mood or worried, a good cup of tea instantly cheers me up.

To make my perfect cup of tea, I use Brooke Bond 3roses natural Care tea leaves.

I first take 1 cup of water, get it to a boil in a vessel. Then , I chop a small piece of ginger off, about 1x1x1 inch big. Remove the skin from it and use a rock that I have to flatten this piece of ginger on my chopping board.

Then I throw the crushed ginger into the boiling water. I then take 1 single cardomom and crush it with the same rock on the chopping board, and then throw that into the boiling water.

I leave these 2 to get nicely absorbed in the boiling water for about a minute and a half. Then I added 1 table spoon of tea leaves and let that get obsorbed for about 2 minutes.

Then I add 3/4th cup of milk to the vessel. I use a spoon to mix the water, milk and tea leaves for a few times. Then I let the tea come to a boil. This takes about 1 to 2 mins.

Once the tea has come to a boil, I lower the heat and let it boil a second time. Just after this, I shut the heat off, Add 1.5 spoons of sugar to the vessel and use a spoon to mix everything together.

Then I use a filter and filter out the tea into a cup to make my perfect cup of tea, a heavenly drink, which gives me comfort.