Parsi Cafes, A Centuries-Old Tradition In India, Are Vanishing - NPR

The brown walls are peeling at all ends. Giant paint chips cake the ceiling. And the cash register — if you can call it that — is just a series of old wooden drawers. "I'm going to put up a sign that says enter at your own risk, otherwise someone is going to hold me liable," says Romin Kohinoor, one of the owners of the nearly century-oldBritannia and Co., one of Mumbai's last Parsi cafés. Luckily for Kohinoor, these quirky interiors have long been seen as more of an attraction than a liability. Parsi cafés like Britannia and Co. started popping up around Mumbai in the late 19th century. Th...