It’s nearly time for the summer harvest and we found this photograph from our spring shoot. This is a small shop near Goomtee, one frequented by the tea garden workers. But what caught our eye was the garden. Flowers are popular here in the hills every house, no matter how small, has a flower garden. Primroses and magnolias are popular. When magnolias bloom, you know spring has arrived!
Photograph by Gautam VirprashadIt’s an oft-told story of how the British smuggled tea plants into India from China and successfully broke the Chinese monopoly over it. India’s hills were fertile for…
Meet Resham Gellatly and Zach Marks. She was from Hawaii, he was from Philadelphia when they both arrived in India as Fulbright scholars. Their first month was spent…
The camera shows the timestamp as 5:53 am when this photograph was taken. We were walking past the storeroom at Goomtee – one of the oldest estates in Darjeeling. Already,…
I write this post sipping on Kesar Delight, one of Shruti’s master creations, a captivating brew of Darjeeling white tea generously blended with saffron strands, with a sprinkling…
We are sitting in the Teabox office in Bangalore, where it’s already summer. Bangalore is not Darjeeling. Nor is it Siliguri, Kaushals hometown, where tea is a way…
