The New Diamond Tea Company features a faded, hand-painted sign that clings to a weather-worn facade in the middle of a busy Dharmatala street. For decades, the narrow shop has specialized in loose-leaf tea, weighing out thick, dark Assam and Darjeeling blends on brass scales that have stayed in the same spot since the shop opened in the nineteen thirties. Shopkeepers still rely on the original wooden canisters to keep the leaves fresh against the humid Kolkata air.
New Diamond Tea Co.
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