{"id":328087,"date":"2020-10-29T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328087"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:27:33","slug":"how-do-the-leaves-with-which-you-make-your-cup-of-tea-reach-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/how-do-the-leaves-with-which-you-make-your-cup-of-tea-reach-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How do the leaves with which you make your cup of tea reach you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/how-do-the-leaves-with-which-you-make-your-cup-of-tea-reach-you\/47-1-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328099\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328099 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/47-1-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/47-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/47-1-299x420.jpg 299w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/47-1.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a>The journey is long and winding. Starting from the steep tea estates of Munnar and Darjeeling in the North-East. The jagged history of the tea plucker is as rigid as the lines of tea bushes he\/she plucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/how-do-the-leaves-with-which-you-make-your-cup-of-tea-reach-you\/47-2-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328100\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328100 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/47-2-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/47-2-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/47-2-298x420.jpg 298w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/47-2.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>Working in the plantation 12 hours a day, a tea plucker is given a home as long as he works. He tries to move out of the cycle of work by educating his children, but if he leaves in between he loses his home. So what the next generation does? It falls in line and continues the cycle of exploitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">letters@tehelka.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journey is long and winding. Starting from the steep tea estates of Munnar and Darjeeling in the North-East. The jagged history of the tea plucker is as rigid as the lines of tea bushes he\/she plucks. Working in the plantation 12 hours a day, a tea plucker is given a home as long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":328099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,2205],"tags":[13635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328108,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328087\/revisions\/328108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}