This email came from Mr. Ashok Trivedi, the Garden Manager of Boisahabi. I quote it in its enterity:

Both ladies are looking into each other - maybe taking a trip down memory
lane! Left is Buddeswari a (garden) worker and the other lady is Joan Stanford whose father was the manager here (Boisahabi Estate) in 1940’s when Joan was a teenager. They lived in the very house in which I am staying today. We are in touch and Joan and her daughter from UK spent sometime here with us in 2005 summer. Joan was born in Assam in 1927. She went on to marry an assistant Manager of Muttuck TE. Now lives in S.Africa. Buddeswari attended the wedding at this bungalow!

We know that tea has been a reason for many a friendships, but when I hear of such stories, it really warms my heart!