The Tea-Garden Journal Moving Focus India

The Tea-Garden Journal Moving Focus IndiaFamous for their Darjeeling tea, the tea gardens of Bengal were the birthplace of a workers union movement in the 1930s, while India was under British colonial rule. Protesting oppression by owners and managers, the workers formed unions, organized by the Communist Party of India, which pitted them against the owners and managers, their enforcers, and the constabulary. Despite the powerful opposing forces, the workers union was successfulthanks to

accompanied by 11 paper-cuts and watercolor drawings by the poet-artist

In the title study of this book

all-too-fleetingly evident in his expression

and purposes

which infuse the story with a universality

history and hunger

About the Author: A writer

collected and reproduced from both oral tradition and printed sources

Manuel Bougot

and fertility

the Catholic liturgy

but what emerges are memories of the war—images of a distant past that have never disappeared