Of Estates and altered timelines

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 14:21:45 +0000

Rhododendron Tea Estate-A rust laden azure blue plank with wan white letters in times roman read. We crossed the uphill driveway , treaded past a patch of wild daisies and reached the house. Another T shaped British styled bungalow, tall bamboo hedges encircling the entire plot and a high tin gate foreboding the gaze of onlookers on the settlement .It was a misty December morning, faint sunbeams already tripping through dense canopies of the Sal and teak trees. This is it, the end of all the leaving and arriving, moving in and out of tea estates. In the last twenty four years I had already moved across five estates, ample of wandering, unsettled friendships all coming to a halt here in Rhododendron just in a years time. Courtesy to father’s wilful retiral.