Jayshree Tea & Industries Ltd.

We spend most of our days at the office in Industry House over on Camac Street. It is a busy spot in Kolkata and we have been here quite a long time now. People know us for tea, but it is really about the logistics and making sure the crates get where they need to go from the gardens. There are piles of paperwork on the desks and phones ringing throughout the morning. We don’t really do fancy stuff here. Most of the staff has been around for years, so we all know how the routine goes. Usually, someone is making a round of tea for the office around eleven. It gets loud when the traffic picks up outside on the street. We just focus on the shipments and making sure the quality is what it should be before anything leaves. Sometimes the lifts in the building are slow, which is a bit of a pain when you are in a rush to get to a meeting. Our space is filled with the smell of different blends and samples waiting to be checked. It’s a plain office with wooden cupboards and old files, nothing like those modern glass buildings you see nowadays. We just keep our heads down and handle the daily trade. It’s honest work and we like the rhythm of it, even when the monsoon rain makes the commute to Camac Street a bit of a mess.