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the  delicate  bone  china  white  translucent  cup  with a golden line  on its  edge, containing  steaming  hot  pink kashmiri  tea  , aroma  of  almonds  and  green herbs  added to  it  was  warya's  faourite since  her  childhood days, but  today  when she on the  henna  function had  beaten the  drums  and  sang  on the  top  of  her  voice  almost  shouting  , tired  she  had  come  to  sit  with her  husband  , her  sharya  aunt  had  quietly placed  two  hot  steaming  cups  of  pink  kashmiri  tea  before  her