by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
While it is common knowledge that the situation has changed quite drastically from the time the company changed hands in the mid ’80s following which the company had gone through some majorly turbulent times, back in the day Malayalam Plantations was the most...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
While it was always a long haul from the estate to Delhi and beyond and vice versa, all through the 1980’s from the time we bought our first second hand car in Delhi till such time as we left Assam in 1990, we undertook this journey on quite a few occasions. Every...
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...