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The Northern Bengal region is gradually going the tea tourism way to generate revenue at a time when gardens are either sick or permanently closed. A report by Deepanwita Gita Niyogi
In April, London-based travel agent and writer Anthony Kingsley visited Darjeeling, often referred to as the Queen of Hills, to trace his family's origin. It was in this eastern Himalayan region, famous for tea all over the world, where Anthony's grandfather Edwin, a tea planter during the early 1900s, once owned the Liza Hill estate.
With the passage of time, however, things changed. Today, Liza Hill is owned by the Jay Shree tea company. The garden was acquired in the 1960s. B...