For the last few years, conversations with my friend Elizeth, a Brazilian tea importer, have been entirely about India and her great desire to visit it. “The rose-tinted view of colonialism needs to be revisited, not rejected,” says Rudra Chatterjee of Luxmi Estates, which includes the Makaibari Tea Estate in Darjeeling. In Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, Wah Tea Estate’s fourth-generation planter, …
Tea can be part of a healthy diet and people who drink tea may even be a little more likely to live longer than those who don’t, according to a large study. The new study extends the good news to every health freak’s favourite drink: black tea. Higher tea intake — two or more cups daily — was linked to …
