Coffee is a fruit and out of its seed comes a dark and bitter drink. It is contradictory to talk about coffee in a majority tea loving nation particularly where our local chai necessitates lots of sugar...

The brave and famous Pakistani historian Khursheed Kamal Aziz (K. K. Aziz), the author of Murder of History in Pakistan, wrote in his lesser known but notable memoir The Coffee House of Lahore— “…it is no exaggeration...