A Second Chance for Darjeeling Tea
With Covid-19 disrupting operations in India’s best tea gardens, the entirety of the Darjeeling first flush, the champagne of teas, is lost. Lockdown restrictions are finally easing this week, but overgrown bushes, a dearth of manpower, and logistical issues could imperil the summer flush, too
16 April 2020
Authors
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
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