17. Our Childhood Picnics

Hello, all you lovely people at CFC/FOM! The children who grew up in tea gardens have the best stories to tell. Today’s storyteller Sunayana Sarkar says, ‘ I was not really a Chai ka baby by…

Hello, all you lovely people at CFC/FOM. Friday is my favourite day of the week since I get to re-visit ‘Indian Chai Stories’ – that wonderful collection of stories from tea gardens by over seventy…

Greetings to all you lovely people at CFC/FOM.  We’ve visited a number of tea gardens together on our Friday reads, haven’t we? Today’s story takes us to Cachar in the southern part of Assam. That’s…

Hello, all of you lovely people at CFC/FOM. Friday is here again, and I’ve just put down my newspaper. ‘What troubled times we live in!’ Now that’s a line we all often hear, especially from…

Hello, all you lovely people at CFC/FOM. I’m so happy to bring you the latest from ‘Indian Chai Stories’ today. Aloke Mookerjee writes about the monsoons of the 1960s in the Nagrakata area of the…

Greetings to all you lovely people at CFC/FOM. Have you got the monsoon blues? Nothing like a good cup of garam chai and a good story from the tea gardens to get you back on…