Rajiv Lochan

Chitoshe Sashida san from Tokyo met me first in Foodex 2011 – a year after tsunami when the talk of radiation were going strong – and that trip blossomed into […]

Elyse Peterson crystalized the concept of a small tea grower as a tea maker also at Obubu tea farm in Wazuka near Kyoto in Japan in my mind when I […]

Carol or Lin Zhi Lam from Hong Kong and acquainted to me in Beijing, brought me to Prof. Xu who invented, isolated, derivated tea flowers into many uses which were […]

There is so much which is NOT written about tea and has to be rummaged thru with perseverance like gold prospecting from the mountains of word of mouth knowledge and […]

Dan Robertson added value to my brain which was so limited to a knowledge that plucking leaf and making them disappear in the drying machine is the act of tea […]

Xiao Juan of Beijing met me in 2004 and then we never looked back – it has been a long relationship with innumerable visits to each other’s countries as well […]

Dan Bolton has kick-started his “The Tea Journey” magazine during World Tea Expo 2016 June in Las Vegas which is an ultimate online source of information on every walk of tea like cultivation, […]

It was China which had tea initially and the debate carries on how it spread worldwide and after traveling far and wide for business I feel it is most appropriate […]

Prof Wang Xufeng of Zhejiang Agricultural & Forestry University, Hangzhou, author of her tea culture book winning highest Chinese literary Mao Dun prize and filmed into a 300 minutes CCTV […]

Guitian Li of Changsha now settled in New York, brought me face to face with destiny as she got me invited to visit a 2670 year old remote Wu Zu […]