This was in 1987 while I was the manager of Limbuguri Estate in Upper Assam. Lady, our docile and beautiful Labrador, while she was on heat, had obviously managed to squirm herself out from under the fencing of the bungalow compound to meet up with one of the loads of...

In 1978 I was transferred from Panniar to Upper Surianalle which was all of 2Kms away as the crow flies.  Almost always swathed in a dense mantle of swirling mist, the estate had been most aptly named as Surianalle (Surian = the sun + Illay = not there). Regardless of...

 The school being located in Simla and while that was the very town which my family belonged to, I was all of a ripe age of 5 years when my Dad in his wisdom decided to pack me off to Bishop Cotton School, an all boys boarding school.  While the flow of the water...

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...