Priyal woke up to a dazzling day. The incessant monsoon rains experienced been steadily pouring overnight and the morning was very clear and crisp. He looked out as constantly through the bedroom window to scan in excess of the two thousand acres of tea plantation that grew just a hundred ft away from his property and swept about the hills and dales like a nicely-manicured lawn that disappeared into the blue horizon. This sight never failed to instill a perception of awe at nature’s beauty and bounty.
On the distant hill-scape he could see the tea pluckers with their baskets draped guiding them going about their every day chores of selecting the teas from the specified areas. These tea pluckers, mainly ladies, had been some of the most successful human equipment as they loaded their baskets up with the bud and two leaves utilizing just their fingers as they nimbly and very easily moved their hands in excess of the tea bushes like a maestro actively playing on a vast eco-friendly grand piano!
Priyal felt a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment as he was the Chief Superintendent of the estate and liable for all operations from the plucking to the ultimate processing and cargo of the tea leaves from the manufacturing facility. He had been trained and mentored to do this considering that he completed superior university from the age of nineteen.
He stretched out lazily and drew the curtains additional which brought to sight the gorgeous and splendid stone and brick bungalow with its tall stone fire chimneys perched atop a hill about 300 feet higher than his dwelling which was the maximum stage in the estate. This bungalow stood out like an apparition from a further time and period and aptly named ” Eagles Nest”. Primary up to this bungalow were being neatly trimmed and beautifully landscaped tropical gardens that glistened in the morning dew and beckoned everyone to stop by its charming ambiance.
The British planters who built this bungalow in the late 19th. century had usually reserved this location for the Main Superintendent of the estate and had furnished it and equipped it out with high-quality pieces of inside decor brought in from considerably corners of the colonial British Empire. From the granite paved porch to the terracotta verandah foremost to the good polished hardwood flooring in the great place, this function of architecture with its panoramic sights of the distant hills and rolling valleys underneath was complete serendipity!
A common wave of combined emotions and emotions commenced to sweep over Priyal who thought that this prized bungalow really should have been his household as prolonged as he was main superintendent or the “Peria Dorai” basically translated as the “massive manager” as the other estate staff use to simply call him. Just just before Priyal was supplied a marketing and transferred to this estate, the business administration experienced decided to convert “Eagles Nest ” into a vacationer resort of types where by foreign vacationers paid out handsome amounts in international currency to appreciate the previous colonial grandeur and feast their eyes on sights that only nature could produce. The “journey package’ incorporated a tour of the manufacturing unit and a working day out with the tea pluckers. A relatively potent combine of grass roots tea knowledge and luxurious residing combo!
As often he speedily swept away these disruptive feelings as he went into the kitchen to brew himself a high-quality cup of tea from a particular blend that he experienced personally designed by mixing various grades of tea from many levels of manufacturing that produced a abundant deep liquor with an superb entire bodied taste. The excellent cup! No quicker the tea leaves began steeping and giving out its abundant aroma, Priyal felt a sense of relaxed and contentment with his ‘karma’ and shortly started to look ahead to additional good activities.
What a excellent beverage tea is, he considered to himself as he sipped from the deep abundant nectar that appeared to fill up his senses, awaken his working day and bring the promise of a brighter tomorrow!
