There are three things about Munnar that I love. There are two tea museums, one the Tea Museum on Nullatanni Road run by Kanan Devan Hills Plantations Co. Ltd and the other, the Lockhart Tea Museum, run by Harrisons Malayalam Ltd. Turner asked John Ajoo, a Chinese tea maker who had arrived in India with Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist …
"After Pongal,” said tea friends in Coonoor, when I asked if the frost teas were ready. Rajesh Thomas, the deputy general manager of this storied estate, paints a pretty picture of tea fields on freezing winter mornings, covered in a layer of ice, “giving the appearance of having snowed”. Both Gopal Krishnan and Thomas say the green tea leaves are …
