It is an undisputed fact that Darjeeling has always been every Bengali’s favorite hill station. And thanks to Bollywood for showing the town in it’s full glory, in movies like Parineeta and Barfi, Darjeeling now has people coming from far and wide. So what defines Darjeeling for me? – The cosy, wooden houses by the…
Category: Tea Tales
Sipping on Serenity atop Fuji
I devote my evenings to myself, whenever I can. Not for work, or for family or for any other care in this world, but just for myself. It is my window of solitude when I take a quick nap in the traffic jam while coming back from office, when I laugh out loud at baby…
6 Places in Kolkata which will make you fall in Love with Tea
To tea or not to tea is never the question. The first thing I do after reaching office is to nag my Canteen-Dada to give me my mug of hot water to dip my tea bag into (my stash at office currently has Moroccan Mint Tea, Tulsi Green Tea and Earl Grey). And as I…
Karma Kettle: Of Beautiful Blends and a Sip of Gold:
It’s no secret that I have always been hopelessly in love with tea. And this love for the golden liquid is something which runs in my genes, I believe. On most days, a big, bold cup of morning tea is what makes me ready to go out in the big, bad world for the day’s…
Keep your cool with Typhoo Cold-Infusions this Summer:
The sultry summer days are here again and as we all know, they are here to stay for quite a while. So rather than getting heated up about the heat, this time I choose to stay cool. In the tropical summers, dehydration is something which needs to be prevented actively and no ‘Summer Survival Strategy’…
Cha & Taa: A Warm Hug in the Winters
A long, deep breath of Calcutta air during the winter months, bring with it the smell of freshly baked tea-cakes, komla lebu, boroline, fulkopi-r shingara and of course, freshly brewed tea. Cha and boroline – these two apparently mundane and disconnected things, are the primary weapons of mass survival for the sheeth-katurey Bangali, during the…
Tete-a-tete with Tea
Few things can be better than a rainy Saturday evening with a cup of tea. So when I was invited to Gallery Kolkata for a session of Tea Tasting & Auctioning, by Typhoo Tea, I was really excited. The session was conducted by the Ace Tea-Taster Mr. Arijit Dasgupta of J. Thomas Pvt. Ltd., the…
Dolly’s – The Tea Shop: Certainly my Cup of Tea
This one used to be a usual haunt for me a few years back, but somehow, with the appearance of so many adda joints around, it got sidelined for months and years. This is the place which made me fall in love with tea, and made me understand that it is so much more than…
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