Muscatel flavour, hand-plucked leaves, and India’s very first GI tag: here is what makes Darjeeling tea truly irreplaceable ...
Darjeeling tea production may fall to a new low in 2025 as erratic weather, labour shortages and rising costs hit gardens, ...
From colonial-era plantations to cutting chai and adda culture, discover how tea became an inseparable part of Indian life ...
I must admit I have dunked a tea bag into hot water and called it tea. I have even made Darjeeling tea, sometimes called the champagne of teas, from a tea bag. For tea gurus like Anindyo Choudhury, ...
Darjeeling has 87 tea gardens spread across roughly 19,000 hectares, employing about 52,000 permanent workers. Around 200,000 families are dependant on the wages of these garden workers. Another ...
On December 7th tea estates in Darjeeling, a hill station in West Bengal straddling India’s border with Nepal, will carry out the final full-moon harvest of the year. Illuminated by fire-lit torches ...
In the last three years, 20 gardens have changed hands, and 90 per cent of the buyers are from non-tea background. IMAGE: A worker gathers tea leaves at the Happy Valley tea garden estate in ...
The festival, organised by Darjeeling police with support from the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), includes a music contest, cultural events and the famous hill marathon A member of ...
If you are a tea connoisseur, here's some bad news: your morning cuppa of steaming Darjeeling tea may soon be difficult to get. Famously called the "champagne of teas", it is grown in 87 gardens in ...
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