Summary of Glimpses of India-Tea from Assam (Quick Revision Notes and Word Meanings) First Flight Class 10
Summary of the Chapter
Tea from Assam is an informative story written by Arup Kumar Dutta. The central theme of the story is tea gardens of Assam. This chapter also tells about the story of origin of the tea. This combines two stories.
Pranjol is a youngster from Assam. He is Rajvir’s classmate and currently studying in a school in Delhi. Pranjol’s father is the manager of a tea garden in Upper Assam. Pranjol has invited Rajvir to visit his home during the summer vacation. Rajvir visits Assam in a train with Pranjol and he keeps taking pleasures of the scenery. They arrive at Mariani junction. From there, they were drove to Dhekibari Tea Estate. It was the tea garden of Pranjol’s father. They saw women with bamboo baskets were plucking the new leaves from the plants. Almost 8 crores cups of tea are drunk every day in the whole world.
There is story about the origin of the tea. It is said that a Buddhist monk felt sleepy while meditating. To avoid it, he cut his eye lids and threw them. Few saplings sprouted out of them. It is said they were tea leaves that banished sleep after boiling and drinking it.
There is one more story. The other story tells that, there was a king in China who was in habit of drinking water after boiling it. Few twigs fell into his boiling water. After drinking it, his sleep went off. They called it tea. Tea was first drunk in China as far back as 2700 BC. Chai & chini words have their origin in China.
Tea from Assam is supposed to be the best kind of tea in the whole world. The best yield comes from May to July every year.
Quick Revision Notes
• Pranjol’s father is the manager of a tea garden in Upper Assam.
• Pranjol has invited Rajvir to visit his home.
• Rajvir enjoyed beautiful scenery of tea gardens on his way to Assam on the train.
• Both of them arrived at Mariani junction where Pranjol’s father was manager.
• 8 crores cups of tea are drunk every day in world.
• Two stories about tea.
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