Dalmia Tea Marketing Pvt. Ltd.

Our place is at 148 Kirana Mandi. If you’ve ever been to a mandi, you know it’s a chaotic place with trucks, carts, and people everywhere. The air smells like a mix of jute bags, dust, and spices. We handle tea marketing here, which basically means we sit in the middle of all that noise and try to move tea from the gardens to the shops. The floor of our unit is usually covered in a bit of tea dust no matter how much we sweep. We have large scales for weighing the bags and plenty of stools for when people come by to talk business. It’s not a place for suits and ties. We wear simple clothes because things get dirty fast. My cousins and I run the daily operations. We spend hours tasting different tea samples in small white cups to see which ones are worth buying. It’s a lot of slurping and spitting, which sounds odd if you aren't used to it. We keep our records in thick registers and keep an eye on the market prices that change every day. It’s a tough business because there’s so much competition in the mandi. We don’t have a website or anything like that. People just know our name and where to find us. We just keep our heads down and try to make sure the tea we send out is decent.