This one dates back to 1983 while I was on Dhoedaam Estate in the Doom Dooma district of Upper Assam as one of the four Garden Assistant Managers on that property. Regardless of and ignoring the the age difference and the huge disparity in our seniority levels, Himmat...

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...

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...

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...