The Tea-Garden Journal Seagull Books London and MSU

London and MSU

and re-examines the relevance of the beliefs and rituals that continue to survive in Bengali society

in favour of a communication model that extends and elevates the pop grammars to which we are exposed from our earliest years

revealing in the process the incredibly gifted and sensitive mind that contributed to the making of one of the major painter-sculptors of our time

Written with a visceral candor that is seen in Ashish Avikunthak's films

The Tea-Garden Journal Seagull Books London and MSUFamous for their Darjeeling tea, the tea gardens of Bengal were the birthplace of a workers union movement in the 1930s, while India was under British colonial rule. Protesting oppression by owners and managers, the workers formed unions, organized by the Communist Party of India, which pitted them against the owners and managers, their enforcers, and the constabulary. Despite the powerful opposing forces, the workers union was successfulthanks to