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INDIA : This is no storm in a teacup By Harsh Mander (The Hindu via CNUA).

November 11th, 2015 | Comments Off on INDIA : This is no storm in a teacup By Harsh Mander (The Hindu via CNUA). »

  A largely invisible, grim, humanitarian crisis, of mounting hunger, looms over several thousand North Bengal tea garden workers. Duncans, a leading tea company with 15 plantations in Darjeeling and the Himalayan foothills, has plunged its workers into a precarious state of illegal limbo. It has neither formally closed its gardens nor is it running […]