Comments on: G20 Tourism Meet in 5-star Hotels in the Tea Gardens – While Tea Workers are Landless

By: FALL OF THE LAST T - The Darjeeling Chronicle

FALL OF THE LAST T - The Darjeeling Chronicle — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:32:23 +0000

[…] almost all the major family owned hotels now in the hands of corporate hospitality brands, the revenue generated by tourism has concentrated in the bank accounts of these corporate houses, […]

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:34:43 +0000

This is an elegantly written report which should have activated the public (Jan Manas) to outpour their opposition to the farce of sustainability being played to international gallary….

By: S

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:34:54 +0000

Before Posting the so called heart touching story about the te garden workers please research alright.u want land right for tea garden workers rights.. then please go and check the condition of the tea garden management first due to the great agitation of 2017.when u shut the tea gardens completely during the 3 month strike did u care?did u care when the backbone of the industry broke?did u care when the financial turnovers of the estates fell drastically and when even these many years later it hasn’t gone back to what it was ?did u care when foreign buyers left our markets and never returned????. please do ur reasearch then post . just a kind advice

By: Arjun Bose

Arjun Bose — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 03:21:45 +0000

The author is completely confused. What is the objective of this article is unclear. Is it a jibe at G20, is it highlighting Land rights, is it basic minimum wage. All these are separate issues and are subjects by itself. The author is trying to be clever and cunning to mix all these separate issues to portray his own political agenda/bias and showcase himself as having a high moral standing and intellectual superiority standing on a high moral pedestal and sermonising to the masses. And it reeks of of elitist colonial thought process.

By: Palden

Palden — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:51:07 +0000

Absolutely second your opinion.Biggest democracy in the world seem deaf in the matter of tea garden workers living condition and are exploited from left to right Hypocrisy gallore.

By: Palden

Palden — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:50:22 +0000

Absolutely second your opinion.Biggest democracy in the world seem deaf in the matter of tea garden workers living condition and are exploited from left to hypocrisy gallore.