I plead innocence to the fact that my rambles are all over the place with my stories taking a huge leap forward from one decade to the next and then rewinding all the way back to the past. The guilty one is my brain which simply refuses to function chronologically....

With this one I’m back to my school days.  11 wonderful years in Bishop Cotton School, Simla. This yarn has its origin probably in 1957, a couple of years ahead of me being despatched to the boarding school as a snivelling little tyke.  In that year one of the little...

In my last ramble having taken you back to 1977, I’m now fast forwarding all the way to 2000 and the five lovely years we spent in Sri Lanka. On one of my regular business trips to the UK, Kitty having accompanied me, Atool Jhaveri a friend and business associate...

Having taken the plunge in 1993 to branch out on my own, a year later my tea venture which centered on sourcing teas from various origins being shipped to diverse destinations was already well grounded.  Three years down the road, with the volume of business being...