South Assam Tea Company

You can find us at Pl.No.32-25-17/C on Allipuram Main Road. It’s a bit of a mouthful of an address, but we are right there in Achampet. The building has been here for a long time and it shows in the walls, but it stays cool enough in the summer. We spend most of our hours sorting through different batches and making sure nothing gets damp. The Allipuram Main Road is always noisy with buses and bikes, which keeps us awake during the afternoon slump. We don't have any corporate offices or anything like that, just the main floor where the work happens. Sometimes the delivery trucks have trouble parking out front because the road is so narrow. We’ve had to run out and help them navigate the turn more times than I can count. Inside, it smells like dry leaves and old wood. We keep a ledger on the desk to track everything, though some of the younger guys think we should use a computer more. It’s a steady rhythm of work that doesn’t change much from year to year. Achampet is a busy place, and being on the main road means we see it all. We just do our thing and try to keep the place organized, even if the paperwork piles up on the corner desk sometimes. It's a living and it keeps us busy.