Tea from Assam
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BolCHAI GARAM..... Garam chai a vendor called out in High pitched voice he come up to their window and asked chai sa ab give us two cups Pranjol said they sipped the steaming hot liquid almost everyone everyone in their compartment was drinking tea too do you know that over 80 crore cups of tea are drunk everyday throughout the world Rajveer said whew exclaimed Pranjol tea really is very popular the train pulled out of the station paranjol buried his nose in his detective book again Rajveer too was an ardent fan of detective stories but at the moment he was keener on looking at the beautiful scenery it was green green everywhere Rajveer had never seen so much greenery before then the soft green paddy fields gave way to tea bushes it was a magnificent view against the backdrop of densely wooded hills a sea of tea Bushes stretched as far as the eye could see dwarfing the tiny tea plants were tall sturdy shade trees and Amidst the orderly rows of Bushes busily moved doll like figures in the distance was an ugly building with smoke building out of tall chimneys hey a tea garden Rajveer cried excitedly Pranjol who had been born and brought up on a plantation did not share Rajveer excitement oh this is tea country now he said Assam has the largest concentration of plantation in the world you will see enough garden to last you a lifetime I have been reading as much as I could about tea Rajveer said no one really knows who discovered tea but there are many legends what legends well there the one about the Chinese emperor who always boiled water before drinking it one day a few leaves of the giving it a delicious flavour it is said they were tea leaves tell me another scoffed Pranjal we have an India legend to BaddhiDharma an ancient Buddhist ascetic cut off his eyelids because he said sleepy during meditation 10 plants grew out of the eye lids the leaves of these plants when put in hot water and drunk benefit slip t was first drunk in China Rajveer added as far back as 2700 B .C.! In fact words such St chai and chini are from Chinese t came to Europe only in the 16th century and was drunk more as medicine than as beverages the train clattered in to Mariani junction the boys collected their luggage and pushed their way to the crowded platform Pranjal parents were waiting for them soon they were driving towards dhekiabari the tea garden managed by pronjol father
An hour later the car veered sharply off the main road. They crossed a cattle bridge and entered dhekiabari tea estate on booth sides of the gravel road were acre upon acre of tea bushes all neatly pruned to the same height groups of tea pluckers with bamboo baskets on their backs wearing plastic aprons were plucking the newly sprouted leaves.
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