Long before coffee evolved into a lifestyle marker in urban India, it was an unassuming constant in South Indian households, brewed daily, consumed without ceremony, and deeply embedded in routine.

Some attendees dug deep into history, highlighting Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty off the Sinai Peninsula in 1967. Israel said it mistook the ship for an Egyptian vessel during the Six Day War, ...

Today, the family — originally from Mawa Kaholan village in Una district of Himachal Pradesh — runs the enterprise as a close ...