This being a current episode, for a change I didn’t even have to strain and delve into my memory for this one. As a rule, invitations to lunch with friends being something I consciously shy away from would explain how, on a Saturday in September I had conveniently...

I must thank my planter (an ‘ex’ like yours truly) friend for veering me towards putting this yarn to paper.  Jeevan Prakash Gurung (JP to all), one of the most respected tea planters in the Darjeeling planting district has, post hanging up his hat, turned to not just...

Having all but run out of tales of my planting days long before now, which those who’ve been reading my posts would know, a number of my friends twisted my arm to convince me that they actually enjoyed reading my stories and that I should persist.  So, to keep the...

From the time we were in Dubai, while visits to that country have been somewhat infrequent, in peddling my teas around, various cities in Canada have always been a regular port of call. There being a couple of close friends who over the years had emigrated to Canada,...