Tea of Sylhet(Non AI)

 

“Tea of Sylhet”

Bangladesh a very significant country for producing the tea. Currently large amount of tea is being exported from Bangladesh. Today Sylhet is one of the places where tea is produced in Bangladesh. During the British Empire, black tea was first cultivated in Bengal and Assam. Bengal used to be the end of the Tea Horse Road, which connected the subcontinent to Yunnan, one of China's first tea-growing regions. It is believed that Atisa is regarded as one of the earliest Bengali drinkers of tea. In 1857, tea was first grown commercially on the Mulnicherra Estate in Sylhet.


 
  Wonderful scenery of Sylhet Tea Garden. Copyright 2025.Ahmed Faiaz

One day in December 2019 I decided to go to Sylhet. There is nowhere else to find such a beautiful place in Sylhet in terms of nature. I left the Dhaka and reached Sylhet at ten o clock in the morning. There we got to rest house where they gave us a welcome drink.We were really tired after such  a long journey so we rested there for a while.Then came the desired time when I started my journey to Sylhet Tea garden. Going there I was really surprised to see horizon after horizon of empty tea leaves.The tea garden worker was working there and we asked them to give us some pictured.I know that the pictures will remain the pages of memory. We talk with them and they said that they love what they do no matter how hard it is.

Listening to the worker there telling us about the history of tea plantation, I felt like I was lost in the old days. The aroma of tea hits my nose which really festinates me. So green that I felt lost in the garden. There were some stalls where tea leaves were being sold directly from manufacturing. One of the attraction of Sylhet is seven colors of tea where there are actually seven layer. We buy various flavored teas from the stall there.

A tea worker with a smiling face.copyright 2019.Mohsinul Kabir

After long stay when we left there sadness we working inside my mind. I started saying in my mind that the history of Sylhet tea garden should live long.


References

Griffiths, P. J. (1967). The History of the Indian Tea Industry. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Momtaz, N. (2024, December 26). The Tea Gardens of Sylhet: A Legacy of Colonial Times. Heritage Bangladesh Foundation. https://www.heritagebangladeshfoundation.com/post/the-tea-gardens-of-sylhet-a-legacy-of-colonial-times


Images references

Faiaz, A. (2025). Wonderful scenery of Sylhet tea garden [Photograph].

Kabir, M. (2019). Tea worker in Sylhet tea garden [Photograph].
Personal photograph


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