Category Archives: India

Who knew…

By Anupa | Published: August 10, 2011

We receive several tea e-newsletters.  One of them yesterday carried this small, but important story on India calling for Tea to be its national drink.  This is carrying coals to Newcastle.  I mean, really?  Does India need to be urged to do this?  Shame, shame.  With Assam & Darjeeling regions known the world over for [...]

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A visitor to Makaibari

By Anupa | Published: July 14, 2011

I hope you enjoy this great travel blog from two of our visitors to Makaibari, Lis and Phil.  The pictures are wonderful and so too is their travel diary.   They took advantage of the HomeStay opportunity at Makaibari which allowed them to stay with one of the workers.  All the cities and towns covered in [...]

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Friends

By Anupa | Published: November 22, 2010

Mostly, I find Facebook useless.  A lot of trivial conversation taking up time.  Occasionally, though, you discover gems, such as my very good friend in Bombay taking up photography and posting world-class shots online.  Here’s one that I thought captured everything about the streets – life, joy, simplicity.  Her caption said it all, “Vegetable seller [...]

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Good works at Makaibari

By Anupa | Published: November 5, 2010

Imagine that a young man takes 8 weeks and goes to India to teach at a school in Darjeeling, India.  He is shown great affection by the villagers there and he loves his experience.  Now imagine it is 3 years later and his parents raise over $20,000 to provide safe drinking water to the villagers and families [...]

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Rajah Banerjee/Makaibari in the news

By Anupa | Published: September 21, 2010

I got a very excited call from my sister-in-law last week saying she heard Rajah quoted on NPR Marketplace (National Public Radio).  I couldn’t believe it!   So here it is – a short piece on organic co-operatives in Darjeeling.  Read or listen to it.   Rajah has been nurturing this fledgling operation to grow and manufacture [...]

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