Deepak Rikhye was born in 1956 at St. Luke’s Hospital, Chabua, in Assam. The view from the room where he was born was adjacent to a lush tea garden, Chubwa. Destiny, in its unique manner, had already intoned that mysterious music of an Invisible Piper. His education at Darjeeling’s St. Paul’s School and St. Joseph’s College exposed him to both British and Indian personalities, who influenced his progress. Deepak’s personal odyssey moved him along a career in the tea gardens, which spanned twenty-six years. It resulted in this narrative on the fascinating history of tea and life in the tea plantations, which he ends with those heart-rending words, “Au revoir.”Books by Deepak Rikhye
Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an International readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and for their analysis of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune.He became known for his protest novel “Untouchable” (1935), followed by other works on the Indian poor such as “Coolie” (1936) and “Two Leaves and a Bud” (1937). Books by Mulk Raj Anand The Singing Line Drawings By Hebbar The Indian Theatre Death of a Hero Reflections on a White Elephant Splendours of Kerala Lost Child and Other Stories Tri...
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