Though born in Simla, the entire formative years of our son Madhav, till such time as he was despatched off to a boarding school when six, were on one or the other estate in Upper Assam.  The upshot was that Madhav while growing up, naturally and without any effort,...

With advance apologies to all & sundry. Relax!  Absolutely NO offence meant! With this one I go back again to the late 1970s and my four year stint with Malayalam Plantations on two estates in the High Ranges. While the High Range club was always buzzing with some...

My mother, a child of the partition of undivided India who along with her family, just one such of millions of other similarly affected families on either side of the border, had one fine morning been rudely uprooted from her comfort zone to be transplanted into an...

Planting per sé is all about the outdoors.  Tea plantations, wherever in the world they be, generally being located in areas which are more remote than most other plantation crops, are even more so about being out on a limb.  Which is what Assam was all about, the...