Many tea-lovers find tea-tasting inaccessible and its jargon off-putting. They recognize its utility but only faintly understand the details. In a career that spans three decades, I have…
Chinese monuments impress with their sheer monumental size. The Great Wall, for example, is over 3,000km long. After popping up there from Beijing in the morning, which isn’t…
There is no typical Darjeeling. The teas are marked by variety, range in price from single to triple digit dollar tags, and have increasingly different leaf characteristics and…
There’s always something interesting around the corner, in Darjeeling. About an hour from Siliguri, we were in Kalimpong, where we came across an interesting sight – a group of…
There’s a story that I’ve caught myself recounting often and that’s one about Aditi and her 99-day solo journey through South America. And with each retelling, I found…
Men may have traded, stolen and grown tea but women have made significant social and cultural contributions to the industry. Here are three women who have had a…
It’s not always about the tea, is it? These are glimpses of life in the tea gardens in Darjeeling, taken on a walk one day: Meena’s a tea plucker…
I wondered if 1.30 in the afternoon was an odd hour to call and set up a meeting. But I’m glad I made the call. He answered on…