Author: CFC Team

Hello, all you lovely people at CFC/FOM.  There’s a lot of excitement in the air with the new CFC adda season coming up! Now in the tea gardens, excitement meant elephants most of the time!…

Hello, all you lovely people at CFC/FOM! Friday has come around again, and I’ve been going through a lot of stories to decide on today’s pick.An enjoyable task, and for this reason a difficult one;…

Greetings to all you wonderful people at CFC/FOM.Today I’m sharing a personal favourite, a lovely story that captures the atmosphere of a lost era: Shilpa Castledine’s childhood recollections of life in the tea gardens of…

Greetings to all you lovely people at CFC/FOM!It’s that magical time of day when I sit down with a good cup of tea and lose myself in dreams of all the tea gardens we’ve lived…

Greetings to all you lovely people at CFC/FOM! Foggy mornings and freezing nights in Delhi leave me longing for the warmth and colour of the Dooars (North Bengal). The Dooars, that beautiful green haven which…

A very Happy New Year to all the lovely folks at CFC/FOM! The New Year is a time for friends old and new. More old than new today, as ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot, and…

It’s that time of year, and I would like our dear readers to get a taste of a real tea garden Christmas. Santa was in my dreams last night, and I woke up thinking of…

Hello again, friends! It’s so joyful to go through the Indian Chai Stories blog in search of the story that I plan to share on the coming Friday. We’ve read two very different accounts of…

Hello, friends! It’s Friday, and I’m so happy to be back with another story from the tea gardens for all of you lovely people at FOM/Chai For Cancer. There’s a song that comes to mind…