Verleni 1947: Special blend of limited-edition tea to be available from midnight of August 14

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

independent India, is all set to brew in your teapot. Makaibari — the heritage tea estate nestled in the misty mountains of the Himalayas, has a special collector's item for you to commemorate India's 77th year of independence — Verleni 1947. This special blend of limited-edition tea — to be available from midnight of August 14 comes from some of the oldest tea bushes in the Makaibari gardens that were actually planted in 1947 — the year India finally became independent from British rule.

Interestingly, Makaibari is owned by the Luxmi Group — a company started over 100 years ago by freedom fighter PC Chatterjee who used tea as an instrument of defiance against the British as India’s movement of self-reliance. Verleni 1947 is harvested from Chinese tea bushes with a strong Muscatel, floral, and fruity flavor — one of the finest examples of Darjeeling tea. Rudra Chatterjee, MD, Luxmi Group said: «Makaibari was always a Swadeshi tea — a Darjeeling estate that was never under British ownership and now owned by Luxmi Tea, a company started as a tool for Satyagraha whose founders were members of the Anushilan Party».

He added " My grandfather was a freedom fighter. He founded this company as a tool for Satyagraha. However, the first tea estate was not in British India but it was founded on the land which belonged to the Maharaja of Tripura and he started promoting the tea from this estate as Swadeshi Tea".