by Indi Khanna | Sep 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
This yarn goes back to around 1998, during my Dubai days. With teas being regularly sourced and shipped out from Calcutta and Colombo, while both cities used to be on my regular beat, having friends in the latter who were always ready to party at the drop of a hat,...
by Indi Khanna | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
My father was born and went through his entire formative years in Lahore in what was back then ‘undivided India’. Undivided till 1947, which is when Cyril Radcliffe, a man who had never till that year been east of Paris, was given the chairmanship of the boundary...
by Indi Khanna | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
During my years in Assam, thanks to Ron Sircar’s ingenious nautical engineering skills which enabled us to spend our long weekends as gypsies on the water, those forays had, perforce, to be limited to the dry season when the mighty Brahmaputra had calmed down after...
by Indi Khanna | Jul 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
During the 15 odd years when I was an expatriate, living and operating first out of Dubai and subsequently out of Sri Lanka running my own business, I was more akin to a travelling salesman, pounding pavements of cities in country after country peddling my wares. The...
by Indi Khanna | Jun 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
This particular yarn being spun around those lovely days in Assam in the ’80s, for this one I’m giving my friends in the south a respite and letting them off the hook. Regardless of whether he be in North India or down South, the very job required, no, demanded that...
by Indi Khanna | Jun 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
My appetite having been seriously whetted by that first fleeting visit to Rookwood in ’98, during the intervening years before I landed feet first in Colombo in 2000, having added his teas to my range of offerings, I was in constant touch with Ronnie. To press home...
