Inside the Tea Gardens of Assam

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Jane Deith reports from India on conditions for tea workers picking for some of the UK's best known brands.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast.
0:02.3	You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use
0:04.9	at BBCworldservice. We're coming to
0:19.1	you this week from the famous Tea Gardens of a Sam in India.
0:25.0	Okay, Mammy, show me.
0:28.2	So you just do it in a nice little flick of the wrist.
0:30.6	Yeah, I'll do it in a little flick of the wrist. The animal little? Ine?
0:33.0	Like this?
0:35.0	Inegano hay inege.
0:36.0	Yeah?
0:37.0	Good?
0:38.0	Marmane Bumis is busy plucking young green tea leaves while the sun shines.
0:42.0	All around me, women are working their
0:44.6	way down the rows of tea bushes, occasionally reaching patches of shade under the trees
0:50.6	planted to offer relief from the heat.
0:53.0	Should I put this in your bag?
0:55.0	Is this okay?
0:56.0	I've added a small amount to her back.
1:00.0	Shukria.
1:01.0	Doing a bad. Marmani makes it look easy. Korea. cases to earn her daily pay of 115 rupees less than two dollars. It's also less
1:16.6	than the minimum wage but tea gardens which are really like small towns run on a
1:22.0	colonial system of wages in kind. The company gives your
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