by Andrew Elkin | May 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
When British occupiers first visited the remote Nilgiri Hills of southern India in the 1820s, they declared the region a wasteland. There was nothing here but mountains and forests, plus a healthy tiger population. But it was cooler up at 1,800 metres than down on the...
by Aravinda Anantharaman | May 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
The drive to the Tea Studio takes one into the Badaga hamlet of T.Manihatty in Tamil Nadu. The strikingly modern structure of the Tea Studio with its rust red roof stands out gorgeously against the lush green hills surrounding it. It sits at an altitude of 6,070 feet...
by Indi Khanna | Nov 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
In 1979 the relocation from the High Ranges in South India to Upper Assam landed me in what, at that point of time, was a truly idyllic location. And heavenly it remained all the way though to the latter half of the mid ’80s when the United Liberation Front of...
by Indi Khanna | Sep 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
A couple of days ago the Tea Studio had a visitor who made a very casual remark, “I’ve never seen a tea factory having a colour such as this.” A simple observation and a perfectly innocuous comment. But then, there is a story behind it.This goes...
by Indi Khanna | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Prefaced with an advance apology to Mac. Some literary licence having been taken, never any offence meant!1984. Upper Assam. I was at that time the Mistry Sahib (Factory Assistant) on Rajah Ali Estate. Other than the fact that the Burra Sahib would at regular...
