India, April 6 -- India's coffee culture, long overshadowed by its tea heritage, is experiencing a sophisticated renaissance, driven by a wave of small-batch coffee roasters who are redefining the craft of coffee production. Chef Parul Pratap shares how these homegrown Indian coffee roasters are elevating the humble coffee bean to enable a new generation to rediscover the complexity of Indian coffee.

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Sip, savour and succumb. Coffee has a way with us; it's a comfort akin to a favourite blanket or a revered space where we feel complete and ready to take on the day. Coffee is unassuming and inclusive; there is limited snobbery, but tremendous potential for it.

Shobhit Agrawal, founder of Mushin Coffee House, feels that we, as a people, ...