Araku's aroma: From Andhra Pradesh to fashionable Paris

Coffee grown in tribal Andhra has found its way to fashionable Paris, complete with a premium tag

Le Marais in Paris is where aristocrats like Victor Hugo lived. Old French architecture thrives here. Art galleries, hip restaurants and fashion stores mark it as an upscale district of the city.

A few days ago, the French windows here found themselves with a fresh coat of paint: blue, yellow, orange, and pink. In the cobblestone alleys, lampposts turned purple and green. These colours even showed up on pathways, stencilled in the shape of leaves — all to announce the launch of a new café in the neighbourhood: Araku Coffee.

As French artist Mademoiselle Maurice used her signature origami collage