News

Earlier in the week week, we covered Arya Tea Estate, one of on | Part two of our exploration into the only two non-colonial ...
Arya Monk, leader of the founding monks of Arya Tea Estate | An exploration into the only two non-colonial tea estates out of ...
The Heladiv Tea Club (HTC), nestled in the iconic Dutch Hospital precinct in the heart of Colombo, is redefining the city’s after-hours with a new menu that promises bold flavours, creative tea-based ...
Fort Kochi has always been a mix of cultures. The Dutch, British, Portuguese, and Jews. Their influence extends to everything, most notably architecture and foo ...
Why your cup of tea could soon be grown in the UK – and be better for you - Britain may be known as a “nation of tea drinkers ...
Architect Channa Daswatte revamps Uga Halloowella through the lens of decolonisation, honouring the native building ...
The Malaiyaha Tamils are descendants of Indian indentured laborers who were brought in by the British to work on coffee, tea, and rubber plantations. ... Menaka Kandasamy of the Ceylon Workers Red ...
While under British rule for 133 years it was Ceylon, but long before that, the ancient Persians dubbed this teardrop at the heart of the Spice Route and maritime Silk Road “Serendip”.
Tea estates were being managed excellently by British firms and by those few Ceylonese capitalists who had of late been investing in tea. During the war Ceylon had earned a lot of sterling – over a ...
Line houses on a Sri Lankan tea estate at night.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner) Many date back to the colonial days of British Ceylon and appear to have changed little since then. On one ...
The legacy of colonization by the Dutch, Portuguese, and British left lasting scars ... Valley—aptly known as the “Golden Valley of Ceylon Tea”—lie five meticulously restored planter ...