A avid explorer, Baruah, who has a Phd in agricultural science, has hiked the jungles that rise above the great Brahmaputra River Valley for many years, documenting various cultivars and collecting specimens used in his work at TRI.
His curiosity led him to the Old Doidam area north of Myanmar, in southeastern Arunachal

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Pullock Dutta is a journalist based at Jorhat near the Tocklai Tea Research Institute in Assam (India). He worked at The Telegraph in Calcutta as a special correspondent for 17 years. He has seen tea life; especially the lives of the workers and the managers up close and has written many articles on tea in the nearly 30 years of his journalistic career.