Tea Men: 125 Years of the Colombo Tea Traders’ Association by Ajit Chittambalam Nature / Wildlife and even our personalities

and even our personalities

what you will always have

in our cramped apartment on the south side of Chicago

and as the custodian of that great Sri Lankan commercial institution

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Tea Men: 125 Years of the Colombo Tea Traders’ Association by Ajit Chittambalam Nature / Wildlife and even our personalitiesMost histories of Ceylon Tea begin with the planters. But no less important to the flourishing of the enterprise were pioneers of a different sort: the Tea Men the plantation agents, tasters, buyers, exporters and brokers of the Colombo trade. At the centre of their story is the Colombo Tea Traders Association, the apex body of the Sri Lankan tea industry, for a Hundred and twenty five years, it has reliably served its dual function as an equal forum