On the Shining Big Sea Water

On the Shining Big Sea Water

Planting per sé is all about the outdoors.  Tea plantations, wherever in the world they be, generally being located in areas which are more remote than most other plantation crops, are even more so about being out on a limb.  Which is what Assam was all about, the...

The “Little” Lawrence-Part II

A couple of weeks after having been eaten out of home (“Little” Lawrence-Part I) I hopped on to my bike for the short ride across the valley from Panniar to my new abode Gundumallai bungalow on Surianalle Estate  with my meagre possessions following on a tractor...
The “Little” Lawrence part-I

The “Little” Lawrence part-I

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...