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The perfect brew: The all-women Tea Studio in the Nilgiris is a perfect example of the local going global
Eight women at an elegant and tiny tea facility in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, make artisanal teas from locally grown leaves and supply them across the globe to Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia and North America Pankaja Srinivasan | Updated: January 21st, 2021...
The moustache-friendly tea cup
The Victorian era is credited with the invention of the moustache cup—designed to keep whiskers in place. Of all tea accessories, this one deserves a fresh look A few weeks ago, on Lounge’s weekly showcase of objects in “Source",...
The bump on the road
I'm terrible with dates. While I need to shovel loads of fish down my gullet to simply remember even my date of birth date, the one date which is firmly etched in my memory is the 1st of January 1978. I was a young pudian (green horn) SD on Panniar Estate in the High...
The Missing Sibling
While born in Simla, the entire formative years of our son Madhav till he went off to a boarding school, were on an estate in Upper Assam. The upshot was that Madhav naturally grew up with and adopted the 'garden Hindi' as his mother tongue. A language which I...
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