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 The Invisible Piper:A Tea Planter’s Odyssey