After my short stint at Head Office, and after having completed my orientation course, I was posted to Rydak Tea Estate. I was handed over an air ticket and boarded the flight to Bagdogra on the 3rd of January 1975. The company car dropped me to the airport and after checking in I boarded the plane …
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It was in December of 1975 that I boarded the Kalka Mail from Allahabad to face my destiny with my first job as an Assistant Manager with Jardine Henderson Limited, in their Tea Estates Division. I was headed to Calcutta for my orientation program for a week. I was a little worried as to how …
For a person, who had never seen a tea estate in his life and had only read about it in his geography class at school it was a difficult task to choose a career as a tea planter. After having completed my studies at the age of 22, I had embarked on a journey to …
This is the story of a tea planter who initiated a bout with nature and didn’t expect that the impact of his actions would last a lifetime! Duklingia Tea Estate is a beautiful estate situated in the Upper Assam’s district of Jorhat. It has an undulating terrain sprawling over a few hundred hectares surrounded by …
