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August 26, 2024 Tea Craft Diaries This morning, I received a message from President Su of Fuzhou Wuliting Strait Tea City Chamber of Commerce. Invited me to attend the cross-Strait tea ceremony and licensing ceremony on September 5. I said that it was not convenient to attend in Taiwan. He said that I could send…
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From the eastern side of Kosi upto Kunming it was an vast expense of land which was ruled from Lahsa with Buddhist influence from 1000 AD roughly and was named Yarlung after mighty Brahmaputra which watered these areas with its tributaries Teesta, Irrawadi and Mekong. This is the time when Buddhism spread to all these…
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Raj Basu lead me to this title which aptly describe Doke location though it can be Galgalia too where roads from all three above locations met on two banks of Mechi and the whole geography was in a flux – Mughals were not really interested in these boundaries where there was nothing much to loot…
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Winning many awards and medals in Japan, China, Australia, Paris and now in London 🇬🇧 we are feeling so elated.

Since times immemorial wanderers roamed the lands in the garb of monks to find peace in search of Gods. This knowledge was written by intelligent beings and documented in monestries for preservation and was attributed to men of higher intelligence. Gutian Li asked me to join Wu Zu tea ceremony at an ancient monestry in…
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Starting 2011 when we met in Foodex Japan we have been carrying the cross of Darjeeling and with a moral responsibility towards tea garden workers who have been left to the mercy of free market and overproduction. Nigel predicted the doom as early as 2015 but real damage got apparent in 2020 and now it…
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Giddapahar, Thurbo, Jungpana, Soureni, Puttabong  are but a few gardens among 87 listed estates in Darjeeling commited to make quality teas – rest adhere to quantity to survive in the prevailing hostile conditions of excessive supply & demand disbalance. Chitose Sashida of Lochantea Japan 🇯🇵 started documenting pertinent information to guide traders and consumers to…
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1748 Md. Murtaza, Governor of 10th Mugal Emperor Farrukhsiyar, established a trading post for sugar, jute & ghee and named it after his beautiful wife Chand and surrounded it with a moat with twelve gate – one of them ours Farukhabad darwaza. Our family of Lalji Mal Farukhabadi moved here in 1850s from Kampla to…
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Pusa is a sleepy village in the Darbhanga – Muzaffarpur – Samastipur triangle of swampy flood-pane of Kosi in Bihar where Gandak river has a horse-shoe course around it which let water table much higher than the surrounding areas resulting in far greener pasture. In 1708 a stud farm was established here by invading Mugal…
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