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There is a photograph that turns up in almost every family album around wedding season. A grandmother's hands, wrapping a set of tea cup sets or any dinnerware in cotton cloth before packing them off for a daughter's new home.

Who would not agree that the times we have thought to stop typing on those modern typewriters sitting on laptops, ditching the loop of approvals, instant gratifications, and scheduling the next day like a mechanoid and just feel the moments that we often overlook, are uncountable.

Tea is one of those rare things that almost every culture has claimed as its own. The leaves might travel the same route from garden to pot, but the cup that finally touches someone's lips looks nothing alike from one country to the next.

Ever locked your glance at the front of a shelf of gleaming dinnerware and thought why one dinner set is three times more expensive than an almost identical one? If yes, then you are also now an entity of one of the most popular debates in ceramics: ash-free bone china versus traditional bone china.

A lot of people own beautiful dining sets and still manage to make the table look like merely a makeshift or just an afterthought. You know, what disrupts the visual balance?

Every story has different plots, but the same feeling. Sometimes you think to buy a cup saucer set at a store once and put it back because you weren't sure if it was ceramic or porcelain, or whether that even mattered.

Try picking up any food magazine that has ever existed, scroll through a chef's Instagram, or walk into a high-end restaurant...one thing we are sure about is that you will definitely find ceramic bowls everywhere.

Out of all the rituals in the world, gift-giving is the closest to emotions and love. A wine glass set gifted secretly to dad. A figurine for the mother that resolves all her Vaastu doubts. Giving unique gifts is a love language that has always deserved to be written in poetry and letters.

In every street, in every nook, now, you will find shops and exhibitions for ceramic dining accents. From ceramic mugs to tea sets, you will find urban aesthetics everywhere now. But if you look closely, beyond its beauty and vibe, what sets ceramic mugs apart from the crowd is.

There have been days when Monday blues and Tuesday troubles caught the mind, and the only way it could feel light was food. Bad days might just be a phase, but food as a saviour feels like a big deal cracked.

We, this generation, are healing the work of art through questions and constant discoveries. No, that’s not a fluff. For years, artwork in dining accents has been just ignored at the cost of unintentional dining. But times have changed, art is rebooting, and its observers, too.

The table has always told a story. Long before the food arrives, even before the first pour, before the candles are lit like the objects on a well-dressed table reveal something about the person who set it.