Balanoor Tea Estate, Karnataka
Piece of Cake
His birthday was celebrated in a leafy residential section of Bangalore, one of India’s more modern, connected cities. Thirty members of the prosperous Kuriyan clan milled about the cavernous apartment in the condominium complex they erected 15 years ago.
Venerable tea and coffee planter, Ashok Kuriyan, the supremely confident, self-possessed managing direc




