by Indi Khanna | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
This yarn dates back to 1977, on the cusp of my transfer to Surianalle which was situated on the opposite side of the valley from Panniar Estate on which property I was at that time being nurtured by Abid. A virtual green horn being metamorphosed into becoming a...
by Indi Khanna | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
While I don’t remember exactly when I took this giant technological step, if memory serves me right this would have been sometime in 1987 which is when I was the manager at Limbuguri Estate. Back then, all overseas business from all the corporate offices located in...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m terrible with dates. While I need to shovel loads of fish down my gullet to simply remember even my own 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 (Sina Dorai = Assistant...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
After two years on Panniar as an Assistant Superintendent to a PD (Periya Dorai = Estate Superintendent) Abid Khan, whom I looked up towards as a father figure, I was transferred to one of the other Malayalam Plantations properties in the High Ranges – Surianalle...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 1975 at a young 22 almost straight out of University and a Masters in English, I found myself up on Panniar Estate in Kerala in the High Ranges as an SD (Sina Dorai = Assistant Superintendent) having been despatched there by the Malayalam Plantations Agents in...
by Indi Khanna | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 1974 while still studying for my post-grads in English in the Punjab University in Chandigarh, over the Diwali holiday break I had headed off to Delhi to spend a couple of days with my elder sister. On an evening at a party in her house I got into a long...
