tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.comments2012-03-24T06:36:55.736+05:30darjnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-46979029078474750582009-02-24T15:12:00.000+05:302009-02-24T15:12:00.000+05:30This is a very good attempt by the small tea growers association. I really admire the dream of Bijoy da and his team. It would be a dream project and would be a land mark in North Bengal. I would be very happy to see the dream project come true as I had been associated with the cause of small tea growers in jalpaiguri for long.<BR/><BR/>__Mithileshwar Jha<BR/>Ex DDM, NABARD, JalpaiguriMithileshwar Jhanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-37115503086839941032008-11-07T02:01:00.000+05:302008-11-07T02:01:00.000+05:30I'll buy some shares in that....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-33630023715001153882008-08-30T23:12:00.000+05:302008-08-30T23:12:00.000+05:30"A very sad state of afairs, it pains to read this". - PrabhmeetPrabhmeet Singhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-70448099191732486612008-06-22T17:12:00.000+05:302008-06-22T17:12:00.000+05:30I very much agree with the 18-point charter placed before the Consultative Committee. The demand of the garden workers are extremely genuine keeping in view the present price index increase. How can a worker with daily wages of Rs.53.90 per day could survive with his family? They are the lowest paid garden workers in terms of Govt. of India Labour payment rule wherein the minimum wages being paid to a labour is categorised. The Govt of West Bengal and all authorities concerned must look into their demands sympathetically and given due benefit to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-8556823442936787612008-05-27T17:50:00.000+05:302008-05-27T17:50:00.000+05:30the only way I think that condition of TG can be improved is by educating people or increasing literacysubashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09095430265194750029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-58666418760453153832007-11-01T02:08:00.000+05:302007-11-01T02:08:00.000+05:30During 1975-1984 I stayed in Hyderabad with my family. An ad in the Illustrated Weekly of India made us order Runglee Rungliot tea from Duncan's in Calcutta. A couple of times we received this superb tea by postal order. Back home in the Netherlands, it was impossible to find this tea at even the most specialized tea shops. Only through internet I could order the tea a few times from a lady in Switzerland, but now this particular tea is no longer on her list! Some other good darjeeling teas, yes, but how to get it now? Duncan's has no postal order, it appears, and nowhere in India I could obtain it. Further search on the internet!<BR/>Regards,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-52359843178845562072007-10-28T09:07:00.000+05:302007-10-28T09:07:00.000+05:30Enigma Oolongs and Avongrove Darjeeling varietals are amongst my must haves. Quite happy creators of new brews are concocting new identities as well as the classic and orthodox teas. TheDarjeelingTeaLadyFumikoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-80131785153297038722007-09-21T10:18:00.000+05:302007-09-21T10:18:00.000+05:30I stumbled on this article while surfing for some work.The garden has already opened and as far as i know it is functioning.This garden is where i was born and i know how hard was for all of us when it closed.I was in school that time and our family was dependent on this only job in the garden.I managed to do my college and now am working .It has been long walk from there.When the tea estates started to close like ours so many has suffered and management has done very little for the misery of our people.I dont know how long will go on ........People never know when this close again....still we all have learnt to survive ...i was lucky to have good education.......but there are many who's education will disrupted if ugly things pocks their head again......But i am pretty sure that people have learnt what to do if this garden closes again.nrityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02619273658554021079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-63946779896461649902007-07-16T06:12:00.000+05:302007-07-16T06:12:00.000+05:30In the Name of Brutus, of New Delhi<BR/><BR/>Dames and Gents, Namaste!<BR/><BR/>I am The American who sojourned all the way to Darjeeling, to take a bus and a rickshaw to the sleepy mountain kingdom of Sikkim, Gangtok that is, to The University, to meet the Lama and discuss becoming a monk…during the Persian Gulf War. I am told the monks still talk about me. And I remember seeing Kanjanjunga, every morning when I woke up, silhouetted perfectly in the window, changing every moment as the sun shifted in the sky, sometimes snow billowing from the summit from the wind. <BR/>In my country presently, we are experiencing excruciating birth pangs, pained to be delivered. I wish to share with you some of my experiences, as you, India, have shared many of yours with me, in the hopes that we may preserve that which truly makes us Civilized.<BR/> In times unprecedented and tinged with despair, it is appropriate to reflect on the founding of my great nation. It was not with George Washington, but with Brutus, and not the one who killed Caeser. There was another who rebelled against the tyrant monarchy of Rome, The Tarquins. He wrote the Roman Constitution that would stand for 500 years. His sons sided with the monarchy. The monarchy lost. So to punish his sons and found a perfect union, he immolated his own sons. Machiavelli speaks fluently and voluminoulsy and voiciferously on this subject, in ‘The Discourses’, and yet is proved wrong on several counts by the miracle of America.<BR/> He says that a nation founded in servitude, as America was a colony, will never win its freedom. He also says that a nation founded on fertile soil that is easily defended, will in time loose all of its freedoms because it will become, eventually, inevitably, sloth and sated, and will forget to protect them. <BR/>As regards 'The DC Madam', I am personally involved. You can view my involvement at http://www.maytheygetwhattheydeserve.com/KAT.html<BR/> Sometimes a mouse will lead you to a kat, and a kat can lead you to a rat and a rat, ironically, can lead you to the truth. And the truth, as they say, and as it is written, will set you free. <BR/><BR/> May all those who sincerely and patiently wait for freedom be free and may all those who desire to steal those freedoms find instead the dire consequences that accompany contempt for a great man like Brutus.<BR/><BR/>As regards Machiavelli,<BR/>eram sapiens tamen nefas<BR/>And again,<BR/>vox vocis publicus est vox vocis deus<BR/><BR/>May The Republic stand forever and bring the Glory of The World, with Dignity, into Its Treasury.<BR/><BR/>PurpleLord Purplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00466239353983779189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-87150760268028571862007-05-15T03:18:00.000+05:302007-05-15T03:18:00.000+05:30This post makes clear what an epic story lies behind the current Darjeeling tea industry. Thanks for the interesting information.<BR/><BR/>Nate Levin<BR/><BR/>Rye, New York, USAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-1141882589233953192006-03-09T11:06:00.000+05:302006-03-09T11:06:00.000+05:30Another one of those things that I would love to have a copy of -- but won't due to its limited distribution.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182329612531965655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18607679.post-1141800015072459662006-03-08T12:10:00.000+05:302006-03-08T12:10:00.000+05:30If I knew how to buy some tea from one of these small concerns -- I would.<BR/><BR/>Good Blog you've got going here. I've bookmarked it.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00182329612531965655noreply@blogger.com