New Delhi, July 6 -- Last year I met Kurush Bharucha, a tea veteran who was wrapping up a 40-year career with the multinational Unilever, where he worked as a taster, buyer, blender, recipe designer, quality custodian and ambassador for tea. Now back in Mumbai from the UK, Kurush talks about how he became a tea taster, a rather uncommon choice of profession then, and even now. While finishing college in Mumbai, back in 1985, Kurush came across an ad for a management trainee-saleroom at Brooke Bond, owned by Unilever at the time. Assuming it was a sales role, he applied, and a few months later, arrived in Kolkata. That's when he learnt that "saleroom" referred to the tea auction room, where tea samples were tasted and traded every week. An...