He was a vision in dark red and bright smile and he helped me start my day with a chuckle. I laughed because he was a Buddhist monk…
Somehow, a beverage of some sort has been associated with events that shaped the destiny of Sumon Majumder, the man some credit with having created the Darjeeling variety…
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…