Pune-born Judah was 13 years old when she heard about the tea gardens and wanted to write this particular story. I therefore used an Indian narrator who tells the story in her own words," narrated Judah. I put in the word on the memorial and those around the tennis court of the district commissioner into the computer and got a heap of material. Then she explained the custom of the English planters keeping an Indian mistress until the time they married. Now, her new novel has the tea plantations of eastern India as its backdrop. I have merely been faithful to the life there."Judah, who lives in Hod HaSharon city, said that she reads all the books by Indian authors that she can find - even those who live abroad.He was an army officer who was in NEFA during the war we had with China." she commented.whatever his name was.
Asked if Victory Tea Estate is based on her recollection or some solid research as she left India about 40 years ago, she answered saying, "This story was inspired by a story my father told me. I was not satisfied with my depiction of English men and women Motor bearings Suppliers speech."I like Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh (who I met in Tel Aviv), Arundhati Roy among other writers. I wrote it seven times from seven different points of view and under seven different titles," she said. Victory Tea Estate was a different version but the editors preferred this title."My dad met an Anglo-Indian school teacher who refused to go into the club with him. David Kuppa gave me many books to read."However I did not believe I could be a published writer. I learned a lot from these."I had named this one 'Chanda'."She said her story is supported by the research she did. If by chance they did, they had to address him as Mr. I did a creative writing course when I was in my 50s.
The novel, intricately woven around tea-garden life in the eastern Himalayas in the 20th century, is about a gutsy young woman, Chanda, who risks # obloquy to be with the man she loves. Another planter gave me old correspondence between the gardens and the head office in London. My professor said that it was material for a novel not a short story.Israel-based author Sophie Judah’s new book Victory Tea Estate aims to narrate life as it is, in the northeastern tea gardens.She suffers, bearing a heavy cross for challenging social inhibition, but at the end, earns admiration for being steadfast in her commitment.She worked as an airhostess and flew the eastern sector before immigrating to Israel after marrying the man she had first loved as a schoolgirl. She told him her father was there..Judah describes Victory Tea Estate, published by Palimpsest, as a celebration of life as it really is.