On a recent trip to some tea gardens in Darjeeling, I learnt something new – to those guys managing the plantations, an Indian 25-paisa coin is more than…
When I saw the shop selling biscuits and cheap candies in the middle of nowhere at Namring tea estate, I was sold on an old marketing aphorism all…
Methinks if ever a movie is set in the Darjeeling hills of the 1940s-50s, it could be woven around the story of Lorna Elliott’s parents – all the…
Feeling spiritually elevated is inevitable in the Darjeeling hills. Out there, one tends to feel that much closer to God – not geographically because the mountain you are…
There is a feisty mountain river at the bottom of the hill where Avongrove tea estate is nestled, but it isn’t the Avon. And there are scattered clumps…
Prashant Gurung’s dream, I thought, was as modest as his means: the waiter at the guesthouse of a tea garden in the Darjeeling hills wanted his eight-year-old son…
The legend of how Jungpana tea estate in Kurseong, Darjeeling came to be so named verges on the mythological. According to folklore, one of the “Ranas” – a…
At Darjeeling’s Goomtee tea estate, Anik Basu strikes a conversation with a fellow lodger in Goomtee and finds a story there.dnpd I do believe it was our mutual…