Gallery

Bokakhat Tea Estate, photographed through the season.

The sun setting over the tea sections at Bokakhat Tea Estate
A garden road running between the sections as the sun sets behind the shade trees
Morning mist over the sections, a “Save trees — no tree cutting” notice on a shade tree
Tea sections at Bokakhat stretching to the shade-tree line under a midday sun
A flat plucking table running to the shade-tree line at Bokakhat Tea Estate
Plucking tables running in curved rows beneath the shade canopy
Mature shade trees standing over the plucking tables at Bokakhat Tea Estate
Early morning light falling through the shade canopy onto the tea
Sun breaking through the shade trees above the plucking tables
Shade trees and creeper-covered trunks above a section of tea
A section of tea under an open blue sky at Bokakhat Tea Estate
Sunlight through a creeper-clad shade tree over the tea at Bokakhat
An open section of tea with the estate’s shade trees along the far edge
A plucker in a traditional Assamese japi gathering the day’s leaf at Bokakhat
A plucker working her way along a plucking table in the garden
A plucker holding a handful of freshly picked two leaves and a bud
The gate of Bokakhat Tea Factory, with a flowering gulmohar overhead
Bokakhat Tea Factory from the road, its name lettered in English and Assamese on the gate
The paved courtyard inside Bokakhat Tea Factory, the estate noticeboard on the right
The yard between the withering loft and the main manufacturing hall
The estate road running past the factory buildings at Bokakhat