How about a cup that cheers, how about a cup of tea

The cup that cheers is a cup of hot steaming tea – some like it with milk and sugar, some like it with a few drops of lemon juice - the lemon tea. How the day begins usually depends on how the drink tastes and provides necessary to take on the challenges that you would face in the course of the day.
The cup of tea acts as real energy boosters. People take it to remain awake late into the night as you wait for your train to rumble into the station or gulp down a cup of warm liquid that goes by the name of ‘chai’ in the early hours of the morning when the vendors in the trains pass off leftovers as fresh stuff. The warm stuff they dole out does remove the drowsiness but it is a momentary relief – it seldom leaves an impression.
The first activity after waking up in the morning is to welcome the new day with a cup that cheers – sand that is the cup of tea. When in meetings, the tea comes a pleasant diversion to lighten the seriousness. It imparts an additional dose of energy to tired brains during those never ending meetings.
On a larger scale, the tea stalls that one encounters at street corners, lanes and by-lanes in West Bengal are believed to be the breeding grounds of politicians and poets. Those who frequent these tea stalls keep track of all the going-ons and scandals in the neighborhood – like the boy who came home drunk to the girl who eloped with her boyfriend.
And - the growing popularity of tea led to ad agencies creating those wonderful ad-spots to promote ads on TV – popular cine stars lip the one liners to express the power of the magical hot drink. Simultaneously, innovations take place – one such is the tea bag that has given rise to the ‘dip and sip’ culture. This began as a new concept for the elite class but had now come down to the level of the common man – vendors in trains have stopped serving readymade tea, instead they serve hot water and pouches of tea bags and sugar.