OF PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS

摘要

My grandfather had a flat in Stephen Mansions. It became Ajit Mansions after the Prasad family bought it sometime in the sixties. We lived there during my early years. It must have been nineteen-fifty and I, still not six years old, vividly remember evenings with my grandfather. Sitting on the sofa by his large Phillips radio, a glass of whisky beside him, listening to the BBC news: when the phone worked, he spoke to his friend Mc Murison, manager of Badamtam Tea Estate at the time. Their friendshipspilled over to the Planter's Club and perhaps Mac was also a Rotarian. They were certainly on the Committee of the Planter's and Gymkhana Clubs.