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India - West Bengal: A tea garden worker at Longview Tea Estate, in the Darjeeling region who still works depsite the fact he is retired. Although Dar...

India - West Bengal: A house in the Longview Tea Estate, in the Darjeeling region. While tea workers generally pass the dwellings they inhabit on to t...

India - West Bengal: Fulkumari Rai (not her real name), 41, works as a plucker at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Despite Makaibari b...

India - West Bengal - One of the villages located within the Makaibari Tea Estate.

India - West Bengal: Workers processing tea at the factory at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Here, leaves are fermented, dried and p...

India - West Bengal: Rajah Banerjee, the chairman of Makaibari Tea Estates, showing a tea plucker the height from where she has to collect leaves. Mak...

India - West Bengal: Tea pluckers collecting leaves at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Darjeeling tea is one of the most expensive an...

India - West Bengal: Rajah Banerjee, the chairman of Makaibari Tea Estates, riding one of his horses within the tea garden. Makaibari is one of the mo...

India - West Bengal: Tea pluckers collecting leaves at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Although Darjeeling tea is one of the most exp...

India - West Bengal: Workers processing tea at the factory at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Here, leaves are fermented, dried and p...

India - West Bengal: Workers processing tea at the factory at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Here, leaves are fermented, dried and p...

India - West Bengal: Workers processing tea at the factory at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Here, leaves are fermented, dried and p...

India - West Bengal: An aerial view of the main village at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Given the spread of the tea gardens, which...

India - West Bengal: Tea pluckers collecting leaves at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Darjeeling tea is one of the most expensive an...

India - West Bengal: Tea pluckers collecting leaves at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Darjeeling tea is one of the most expensive an...

India - West Bengal: Tea pluckers collecting leaves at Makaibari Tea Estates, in the Darjeeling region. Darjeeling tea is one of the most expensive an...

India - West Bengal: Workers sorting tea at the processing factory at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Here, leaves are fermented and dried...

India - West Bengal: A worker's house in Pakka Line, one of the villages dotting the Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Houses provided by th...

India - West Bengal: A woman walking towards a washing point in Pakka Line, one of the villages dotting the Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region...

India - West Bengal: Villagers collecting water from a well in Pakka Line, one of the villages dotting the Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region....

India - West Bengal: A worker's house in Pakka Line, one of the villages dotting the Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Houses provided by th...

India - West Bengal: Villagers inside a washing point in Pakka Line, one of the villages dotting the Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Altho...

India - West Bengal: A tea garden worker hospitalized in the male ward of Mogulkata Tea Estate hospital, in the Dooars region. The hospital can receiv...

India - West Bengal: Bhudni Mahali, 47, hospitalized at Mogulkata Tea Estate hospital, in the Dooars region. After she was diagnosed with a thyroid di...

India - West Bengal: Sele Lakra, 45, a tea garden mender hospitalized in the male ward of Mogulkata Tea Estate hospital, in the Dooars region. The hos...

India - West Bengal: Villagers collecting water from a well in Pakka Line, one of the villages dotting the Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region....

India - West Bengal: School children at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Pupils are transported in trailers used to carry tea leaves rather...

India - West Bengal: Pluckers at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region, waiting in line at a weighting point operated by a manager. The tea estat...

India - West Bengal: Pluckers at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region, waiting for their load of tea leaves to be weighed. Every plucker is then...

India - West Bengal: Chandan Chetri, 24, portrayed inside his family house in Pakka Line village at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Born a...

India - West Bengal: A tea plucker's hands at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Every plucker is given two cross-shaped wooden sticks to mea...

India - West Bengal: Tea pluckers from Pakka Line getting ready for work at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Tea plucking is a task general...

India - West Bengal: Tea pluckers at work at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. The tea industry is India's second-largest employer, with ove...

India - West Bengal: A tea plucker drinking during a work pause at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Safe drinking water, which should be pr...

India - West Bengal: Pluckers at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region, returning home after a day of work. Every plucker works 8 hours per day,...

India - West Bengal: Tea pluckers having a rare break at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Tea plucking is a task generally reserved to wome...

India - West Bengal: A tea plucker at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region, measuring the height of the tea bushes. Despite being one of the big...

India - West Bengal: Mina Sharma, 45, cooking outside her home at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Workers have 2 hours lunch break during...

India - West Bengal: Mina Sharma, 45, posing inside her house at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. The woman started working as a plucker wh...

India - West Bengal: Pluckers at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Pluckers are equipped with a net bag to store the collected leaves and an...

India - West Bengal: Pluckers at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Pluckers are equipped with a net bag to store the collected leaves and an...

India - West Bengal: Pluckers at Mogulkata Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Pluckers are equipped with a net bag to store the collected leaves and an...

India - West Bengal: Old residents of Bundapani Tea Estate suffering from severe malnutrition, in the Dooars region. The garden, which houses more tha...

India - West Bengal: Hira Munda, 32, holding her 10-month-old baby Shonali at Bundapani Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. After the closure of the gar...

India - West Bengal: A worker mending a fence at Kathalguri Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. Here, 525 workers died of starvation between 2002 and 20...

India - West Bengal: An old woman at Bundapani Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. The garden has been closed since July 2013. A study conducted by the...

India - West Bengal: The abandoned hospital at Bundapani Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. The garden, which houses more than 7,000 people, used to em...

India - West Bengal: The abandoned processing factory at Bundapani Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. The garden, which houses more than 7,000 people,...

India - West Bengal: Caretakers' makeshift beds at Bundapani Tea Estate, in the Dooars region. The garden, which houses more than 7,000 people, used t...

India - West Bengal - A villager walks by an abandonned tea estate.