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Casting for Gold

The thrill of the big Mahseer, hooked in heavy water, has an electric joy ... there is nothing quite likes it: and once experienced, it is imprinted forever on the tablets of memory. " Forty-seven years later too these words from A.S.J. MacDonald's Circumventing the Mahseer hold good, though the number of people who can boast of reeling one in is fast dwindling. For the uninitiated, the Mahseer, only found in India, is renowned as the hardest fighting fish on the planet and so is hailed as the ultimate fishing experience for any freshwater angler.

Romancing the tea garden
Business India
1st January, 2007

Tea Garden

Have you been there and done that! Here is an experience for the jaded palate. A little nostalgia for the British Raj helps along with stories of the Koi hai days of the old tea planters. Reinforcing the Raj experience with a difference is the antiquate Land Rover, the GI jeep, the horse-driven carriage. Macleod Russel India Limited (MRIL) chairman Brij Mohan Khaitan is almost the last Brit standing in Assam and his 'agency-style' tea gardens have retained some of the best flavours of the old planting life.

Tea estates looking beyond traditional business

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:13

Tea estates looking beyond traditional business

Hindustan Times

25th October, 2006

AFTER FORMALLY taking over the operations of Williamson Tea Assam in May this year, the BM Khaitan-promoted McLeod Russel India Ltd is exploring new business opportunity in tea and nature tourism.

To begin with, McLeod Russel, which has now become the world's largest bulk tea company after the acquisition of Williamson Tea Assam from the UK-based Magors, is decking up the colonial bungalows located in its pristine and pollution-free tea estates spread across upper Assam, McLeod Russel has teamed up with River Journeys & Bungalows of India Ltd, a start-up hospitality outfit based in north-east, in this endeavour.

Garden Fresh

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:12

Garden Fresh

The Economic Times,

8th October, 2006

Tea companies recreate the old-world charm of British Raj to woo tourists to their estate resorts

How about having that early morning cuppa in a tea garden bungalow? After that, why not tea off at the greens, close to the bungalow? Does it look like we are getting a little high on tea? Well, the tea companies certainly are on this novel theme - tea garden tourism - the latest entrant in the country's booming tourism industry.

Tea tourism making headway in Assam

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:10

Tea tourism making headway in Assam

The TRAVTALK

17th September, 2006

Realising the tremendous tourism potential that tea gardens in Assam have, many tea companies are now converting their age-old tea heritage bungalows into tourist bungalows TRAVTALK. takes a look into this new genre of tourism.