Initial Days ...
Sheilkalmudi Tea Estate...Annamalais...Tamil Nadu ...India.. While growing up in Pune I never dreamt I would be living on a tea estate. I was around 12 years old when my cousin got married in Kollam to a lawyer practicing in the Trivandrum High Court. Since it was very near school reopening time and since my brother went to a school run by the Central Board and had a nearly a month of holidays left, only my mom and brother went for the marriage. I remember being in charge of the kitchen and being very happy cooking. My cousin’s husband had his ancestral home in a place called Vidirah, which had tea estates near by and I so distinctly remember listening longingly to my mother talking about the tea estate they visited with my maternal uncle. Life is so strange because I never knew about Assam nor did I ever think I would be learning a lot about the tea estates in south and east India. I got married in 1998 and was really looking forward to seeing the gorgeous tea estates w...