Straight out of university with a masters in English, I found myself at age 22 up in the High Ranges of South India on the Panniar Tea Estate. It was 1975. I was dispatched there by the Malayalam Plantations Agents in coastal Cochin, 130 kilometers west.  Born and with my entire formative years lived in Shimla w

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