Category Archives: Media
The Tea Explorer Film to Screen at Hawaii International Film Festival
The Tea Explorer to Screen at the Hawaii International Film Festival, November 2017. Continue reading
Feature Article: The Great Gangotri – Feeder of the Ganges
One of the great moving river bodies of the planet, the mother Ganges, is fed by the Himalayan Water Towers; glaciers that ebb slowly at greater speeds. We know the river itself but not necessarily the epic bodies that feed it. They are revered and worshiped…and they do ebb. The Gangotri is one of those feeders. Continue reading
Tea Explorer Extended Run – On CBC’s Doc Channel
We’re delighted to announce that our documentary film The Tea Explorer film is getting an additional airing on Sunday Sept, 10th at 9 pm ET/10 PT on CBC’s Doc Channel in Canada. Best taken with a cup of leaves and water … Continue reading
Interview with Love for Tea – The Tea Explorer
A conversation about The Tea Explorer film, favourite teas, and the Himalayan trade routes with Ruhani Sandhu. Continue reading
Our ‘The Tea Explorer’ Doc Film Gets Some Blushing Reviews
The Tea Explorer doc gets its first reviews…and they are good Continue reading
The Tea Explorer – Our Tea Documentary on CBC’s Doc Channel
The Tea Explorer has its first on-air television slot on CBC’s Doc Channel in Canada on July 23rd, 2017 at 9pm ET. Continue reading
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update V – A Descent
Berinder is impatient and staring in his mournful way at Saurabh and I to hurry. He wants to move and it is our day to make another incursion into the Chaturangi Glacier valley and then head south up a smaller … Continue reading
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Ganges Gangotri Update 3
The line is uneven. Random dark and bright spots lie along a long diagonal path that at times is nothing but some smudges in the sand. Our team is spread along a kilometer long portion heading south further into the … Continue reading
The Glaciers’ Breath ll Expedition – The Ganges’ Source
Sources of rivers are rarely seen or acknowledged and it is perhaps more clearly in the sources that one can feel the absolute core vibrancy and life of what is known as पानी – paanee – ‘water’ in Hindi. It is said often in India that “water is life”. This journey is to travel to a source of so much life. Continue reading
Puerh – Age and Other Words
Age of trees or bushes is one of the questions particularly vital to any discussion or selection of Puerh (regardless of how you spell it). A ten-year old tea doesn’t tell the drinker anything about the age of the leaves when picked, and for many of us this is a more intriguing and more delicious question than it sometimes gets credit for. Continue reading