by Indi Khanna | Dec 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
I must thank my planter (an ‘ex’ like yours truly) friend for veering me towards putting this yarn to paper. Jeevan Prakash Gurung (JP to all), one of the most respected tea planters in the Darjeeling planting district has, post hanging up his hat, turned to not just...
by Indi Khanna | Nov 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Having all but run out of tales of my planting days long before now, which those who’ve been reading my posts would know, a number of my friends twisted my arm to convince me that they actually enjoyed reading my stories and that I should persist. So, to keep the...
by Indi Khanna | Oct 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
From the time we were in Dubai, while visits to that country have been somewhat infrequent, in peddling my teas around, various cities in Canada have always been a regular port of call. There being a couple of close friends who over the years had emigrated to Canada,...
by Indi Khanna | Sep 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Totally Bata’d With this one, while I am going off on a tangent from all my earlier yarns, the very roots of this story do go all the way back to my formative years. Not subjective though, because I am fairly certain any Indian anywhere close to my age would have...
by Indi Khanna | Aug 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Having relocated from Assam to Dubai In 1990, ahead of diving into the deep end to set up my own business in late ’93, I was in a job situation, having been appointed as a ‘trader’ in an international commodity trading company. Following my many years in tea planting...
