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  • QTrade’s Manik Jayakumar to Receive ‘The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award’ at World Tea Expo 2019

    QTrade’s Manik Jayakumar to Receive ‘The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award’ at World Tea Expo 2019

    NEW YORK (May 15, 2019) — Manik Jayakumar, founder of QTrade Teas & Herbs, will receive The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award at World Tea Expo, to be held June 11-13 (with a pre-conference program on June 10) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev. Read More

  • MALCOLM HAROLD DE RUN

    MALCOLM HAROLD DE RUN

    Nihal & Mohan de Run, and Mala Miles (nee de Run) (2021)

    Malcolm Harold de Run was a late beginner in the late 1950s, a fast finisher in the late 1960s, and way ahead of his time as a plantation manager. Read More

  • Charles Frederick Braine (1850 – 1896), Adventurous, Accident Prone, Great grandfather

    Charles Frederick Braine (1850 – 1896), Adventurous, Accident Prone, Great grandfather

    George Braine (2020)

    I have previously written about my great, great grandfather Charles Joseph Braine (1814-1890), who became a coffee and tea planter in Ceylon... Read More

  • Charles Joseph Braine - from the UK to India, Hong Kong and Ceylon - an enterprising ancestor

    Charles Joseph Braine - from the UK to India, Hong Kong and Ceylon - an enterprising ancestor

    George Braine (2020)

    C.J. Braine was born in Middlesex, England, in 1814, the seventh of eleven children. At his baptism, his father’s (place of) occupation is stated as Navy office. Read More

  • Book Review – Wisdom in the Leaf by Gerry Jayawardena

    Book Review – Wisdom in the Leaf by Gerry Jayawardena

    S.D.G. Jayawardena (2020)

    Let me at the outset congratulate the Chairman, Mr Merrill Fernando and Dilhan for the unique initiative and vision in embarking on this mission of recording the often unrecognized aspects of tea industry in Sri Lanka Read More

  • Book Review by Dr Nalini C. Gnanapragasam Sivapalan

    Book Review by Dr Nalini C. Gnanapragasam Sivapalan

    Dr Nalini C. GnanapragasamSivapalan (2020)

    “Wisdom in the leaf” is an appropriate title for this informative book contributed by well-known experienced and knowledgeable retired planters and selected tea scientists. Read More

  • Book Review by Jane Pettigrew

    Book Review by Jane Pettigrew

    Jane Pettigrew (2020)

    Merrill Fernando, founder of Dilmah Tea, the renowned tea company in Sri Lanka, has spent all his adult life working for the success of the tea industry in Sri Lanka and for the good of the Sri Lankan people. Read More

  • THE HOUPÉ SONG

    THE HOUPÉ SONG

    David Colin-Thomé (2020)

    Planters’ had to often contend with solitude due to travel constraints in time and distance between plantations and ‘civilisation’. This resulted in many a bond being created between planting colleagues whose social lives also revolved around each others company. Read More

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