#tea plantations

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Harvesting tea leaves

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Azores (2) (3) (4) (5) by Jurgen L

Via Flickr:

(2) Located in São Miguel island in the Azorean archipelago, Gorreana is the oldest, and nowadays the only tea plantation in Europe. (3) Sete Cidades lake covered in clouds. (4) The main village of Monsteiros is located on a fajã at the tip of the island, surrounded by coastal cliffs that reach 20 metres (66 ft). The westernmost settlement on the island of São Miguel. (5) Rough sea at the coast of Mosteiros where people come to swim in the natural pools of crystalline water resulting from volcanic activity.     

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Ok so we have this chapters on structural and cultural changes in society in our Sociology textbook and there's a page where parts about the tea plantations in Assam is given and how Britishers used to lie and coax people from other places like Jharkhand or Bengal to go work in tea plantations. And how they were treated badly and so many of them died. While the planters and officers were living lives in luxury.

And that reminded me of this very beautiful bengali song that's about the same topic so I wanted to share. You'll think the song is about something happy bit if you know the language and look into the lyrics it's just so sad and heartbreaking cuz the person is talking about how they were lied to and taken to Assam in hopes of money and a better life. But now they are overworked all day and the babus and shahebs torture them and beats them.

And this song always makes me so sad because as a kid when I didn't knew the lyrics or history in details I used to feel so happy about this song but now that I know the real meaning it just feels so painful to me

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Gorreana Tea Plantation ( São Miguel Island / Azores )

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2014 India, Kerala, Munnar, tea plantations

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all photos are taken and edited by Mada.