It’s always been the ‘bada sahebs’ who have headed Assam’s tea estates, but now there’s a ‘bada madam’ managing an estate here, nearly two centuries since the British set up tea estates in the region in the 1830s .
Manju Baruah is the manager of Apeejay Tea’s Hilika Tea Estate in upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district. Baruah, 43, who started as a welfare officer, says, “I am often addressed as ‘bada madam’. It is the alternative to ‘bada saheb’, the way the boss in a tea garden is traditionally addressed. Sometimes, the workers call me ‘Sir’. I rather enjoy it. “
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