by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Having taken up a job offer from Warren Teas, on my relocating from South India to Assam, my first posting was as the Field Assistant on Dhoedaam Estate located in Upper Assam. Dhoedaam is almost at the extreme north eastern tip of Assam, close to the point where...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
That first trip to Gravel Banks with Clyde and Appu, were followed by many more interesting ones spread out during the two years I was at Surianalle, ahead of relocating to Assam. There obviously being no way for me to verify this, I’m pretty much certain that...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
This was in 1987 while I was the manager of Limbuguri Estate in Upper Assam. Lady, our docile and beautiful Labrador, while she was on heat, had obviously managed to squirm herself out from under the fencing of the bungalow compound to meet up with one of the loads of...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 1978 I was transferred from Panniar to Upper Surianalle which was all of 2Kms away as the crow flies. Almost always swathed in a dense mantle of swirling mist, the estate had been most aptly named as Surianalle (Surian = the sun + Illay = not there). Regardless of...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
The school being located in Simla and while that was the very town which my family belonged to, I was all of a ripe age of 5 years when my Dad in his wisdom decided to pack me off to Bishop Cotton School, an all boys boarding school. While the flow of the water...
