Chai Shai Aur Hum

Last year I got invited to a group called Chai Shai Aur Hum, which is a private social club of 10 women in our neighboring towns that meets every month. The idea is to just “chit-chat”- and escape the daily drill of work, family and other obligations and treat each other, turn by turn. Chai Shai means Chai (tea) etc., as in Urdu we will take a noun and replace the first consonant with “Sh” to mean “etc.”; “Aur” is “and”, and “Hum” is “we”, so the concept is loosely…