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Kamala Devi Gupta, my mother, passed away on 30th October 2021, few days before her 88th birthday – for us an unbearable loss🙏 Everybody says I was her favourite sibling but reality is she was everybody’s favourite elder and infact she was one. Her father adored her very well and she being eldest among her…
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My maternal grandfather Dr. Sridhar Gurudayalji Vatsalya was born in 1903 and he passed as a medical doctor in 1929 from National Medical College, Bombay and was invited to join WW2 in 1942. It was not normal for a boy who hailed from a backward Raja ka Rampur town of then United Province – his…
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The man who speaks fast 😅 A family friend since 1997 we came closer when his coffee table book was released and I did the Thanksgiving part at the end of the function at Montana club at Uttarayan township in Siliguri on 27th March 2021. To sum up a book like this which is a…
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God destines you to do something that you don’t have a hint about – I was going to be associated with a large correction in Indian tea scenario – to plant tea in non-tradional tea growing areas – which swelled to its doom but our zoom to fame. It was 1989 when many tea companies…
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One fine Sunday morning back in 1973, someone asked me “Will you join tea?” – I almost fell down from a tree as I didn’t know where tea is grown and rather I was furious at the thought because I thought I was educated enough not to work in a tea shop ♥️🤭🦆🌹 1973年一个静好的周日清晨，有人问我，“你愿意从事茶行业么？” 听完我几乎要从树上摔了下来，因为我当时都不知道茶是怎么种出来的。而且让我恼火的是，作为一个受过良好教育的人，我有足够的理由不去一间茶叶店工作❤🤭🦆🌹…
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Siliguri is world’s biggest tea centre handling one billion kilos of tea per annum and Tea Board of India is the government body monitoring it’s function. On 8th February 2020 in an inaugural function Chairman made above observation – “we are proud of you”. In 2016 in Shizouka inaugural ceremony we were awarded a Gold…
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This morning’s pot o’ copper. Or rather … this afternoon’s. I didn’t get up until the crack of 1PM. The last couple of days have been unusually social. A part of me thought I should put forth the effort to be less hermitic. The rest of me is not used all the activity. I slept…
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As a family cycle the batton has to be passed and in my case it proved to be easy because the family grew togather. My three kids got early education in schools in our vicinity only making the bond stronger. My elder daughter Mayuri later settled in Oslo since 2002 after higher education in America…
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It was five years later in 2009 when I started in Japan and I am here…our exposure to China started in 2004 which made us understand value addition to tea by properly packaging and presenting: Until a tea is not brewed and served properly it can’t be enjoyed and unless it reaches right places we…
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China Radio decided to launch a documentary made on our tea life coiciding with the visit of their President Xi Jinping during October 2019 and we were happy. What they were projecting was that how Chinese culture matters to an outsider for the understanding of tea making and film maker Juan very powerfully illustrated it…
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