Tea girl

Tea gardens have narrow walkways for the pickers to move in. The tea shrubs grow and tend to almost close-in the space. It becomes a difficult proposition to walk-in with the tea shrubs scraping one's body as one tries to force in. Precisely what we had to do here. Our shirts got wet from the morning dew on the leaves and we landed up with few scratches on our hands. But well! The picture had to be taken as a memorable Patel snap.