This is an account of the times when the muse didn’t strike and a morning’s worth of work met with disaster. Smoked Rose Tea Or the day we set…
Having spent all my life in the Darjeeling region, I am aware that the tea industry offers much fodder for discussion. Even amongst us locals, tea slips into…
The role of religion is to support tradition. Religion can be broadly seen as a way of preserving tradition by referring to the prophets of the past and…
Up until now no tea producer or marketer or retailer has mentioned freshness in the same breath as tea. (And why would they; it’s never been in their…
I visited the Sydney Tea Festival which was held for just one day under a large covered roof. Most of the stalls were devoted to Chinese tea and…
Prachi Sibal catches up with poet-painter Tanya Mendonsa to talk about living in the Nilgiris. Since I was a child, I’ve wanted to live on a tea estate.…
It’s Sunday afternoon. Choice of book: Aaron Fisher’s The Way of Tea; I am on Chapter 10, ‘Tea Ware’. Choice of tea: Assam black tea Mood: Pensive Reasons:…
Many years ago, I discovered an online writing hangout called Zoetrope. It was part of Francis Ford Coppola’s umbrella that included the fine literary mag, All Story. Zoetrope…