Tea break

Along Dal Lake, Kashmir

Women field hands take a break from working in the irrigated fields. A sweet, milky tea is poured over a bagel in a bowl from a portable samovar.

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sumaya teli writes:

This is actually a salty pink tea unique to Kashmir which is poured into these china handleless cups. It is drunk all over Kashmir, from villages to the urban households of Srinagar, for breakfast and -- as in this wonderful picture of repose -- at snack times.

May 8, 2006