And now munch your tea! Yes, do away with your cups and saucers for tea would henceforth be available in biscuits. The development is only a patent-right away. Once patented, the Tea Research Association would direct all its energy to develop biscuits laced with ingredients of tea.
And what is more, consumers would enjoy the luxury of choosing tea-biscuits off the racks according to their taste and requirement.
Wish to savour tea and biscuits minus the polyphenols? No problem, just buy a pack of tea biscuits suitably laced with your preferred aroma sans the polyphenols and enjoy your tea and biscuit in one munch.
You want it the other way round? “That can be arranged too,” claim TRA officials.
Using a high-pressure technology, the TRA has succeeded in segregating the components of tea. “Tea has plenty of bio-chemical components in small doses. But the main components are the polyphenols, which is incorrectly often referred to as tannin. The TRA has accomplished the art of segregating all these components after a thorough research,” said the TRA’s chief advisor, Nagrakata station Mr Pradip Ghosh.
According to him, the idea of tea-biscuits was presented at the TRA’s 34th conference at Toklai, Assam between 28 and 30 November. “Tea laced biscuits were tasted at the conference and passed muster. It has been decided that the experiment would be pursued on a commercial basis and the segregated tea ingredients released in the market in their aboriginal forms,” he informed.
The TRA, he added, would not manufacture the tea-laced biscuits but would retain the patent right of extracting the tea components.
It was learnt that some large size biscuit manufacturers have already got wind of the development and more than one are toying with the idea to become the first to introduce the new product in the market.
Slip between the ‘cup’ and the lip or the ‘pack’ and the lip? Decide for yourself.
Source > The Statesman
A worker of a closed tea garden in Jalpaiguri was arrested last night by Siliguri police on the charge of dacoity. Three of his associates were also held.
The incident is being seen as an indication of the worsening situation in north Bengal’s tea sector.
Acting on a tip-off, the police picked up Ramesh Oraon (28) of Raipur Tea Estate (closed since July last year) under Kotwali police station in the Jalpaiguri district, along with three others from a hideout in Khalpara. Two improvised firearms and four rounds of ammunition were seized from them.
The other three who have been arrested are Sukumar Das (25) from Jyotinagar Colony under Siliguri police station and Abhi Munia (26) and Jairam Das (20), both from Randhamali in the Jalpaiguri district. All four were forwarded to the court today.
“They have confessed that they were planning to raid a series of houses in the area,” said Siliguri additional superintendent of police Tripurari.
“They do not have any criminal records in Siliguri. We will contact our counterparts in Jalpaiguri to know about their past. What we have been able to confirm is that Sukumar had asked the three to come to Siliguri so that they could form a gang.”
The arrest of the worker of a closed tea garden signals a frightening trend in north Bengal, feel trade union leaders. “We had always feared that the management’s unmindful and harsh measures coupled with the government’s absolute apathy would drive workers of closed gardens to adopt criminal means for a living,” said Samir Roy, general secretary of West Bengal Cha Mazdoor Sabha.
Roy added that desperate workers might even get involved in anti-national activity. “With so many separatist movements active in north Bengal, it will not be difficult to instigate the workers, who are dying of hunger and malnutrition,”.
Source > The Telegraph
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