West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has voiced her concern regarding the flood-like conditions in the state. Sikkim Flash Floods Live Updates West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose is scheduled to visit the flood-affected districts in the northern part of the state on Thursday. The northern part of West Bengal shares a border with Sikkim which witnessed a flash flood …
As the Darjeeling Municipality held the floor test on Wednesday, only Anit Thapa’s Bharathiya Gorkha Prajathantrik Party won it with the support of the Trinamool Congress, while the ruling Hamro Party gave it a miss. A day before the test, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung, Hamro Party chief Ajoy Edwards and then TMC leader Vinay Tamang launched the Gorkha …
If you google this tea, do remember to search for it as “Oriental Beauty Tea”, not just “Oriental Beauty”. The presence of the bud makes these oolongs “tippy” and lends them a few other names, including Bai Hao and—the name I like most—Pengfeng Cha, or Braggarts Tea. But, as Saria says, “There’s tea and there’s the Oriental Beauty.” Clearly, it …
Your tea moments are the kind that count in the day, starting from the time you savour the aroma, deep dive into flavour and mindfully enjoy the brew sip by sip. Normally, if premium teas are produced from two leaves and a bud, white tea is produced from one leaf and a bud and comes at astonishing prices upwards of …
When I began writing this column last year, I chose the Darjeeling muscatel, a tea that’s special for many reasons, to begin with. The dry leaves looked and smelt like an Assam loose leaf black tea but when I steeped it, the wet leaves gave off a familiar aroma, that muscatel fruitiness. The Darjeeling muscatel comes with a story of …