”Darjeeling” News

Indian tea tourism helps spread Darjeeling aroma

KURSEONG, India (AFP) - Touring tea gardens in India's famous Darjeeling hills and tasting several varieties of the gold-coloured brew has got Audrey Dreyer thinking about a career in the trade.
08 21 2008 7:25PM (...more)

Kolkata tea bars put modern twist on ancient brew

KOLKATA (Reuters Life!) - When engineer Suhani Mehra found the bar she usually frequents too crowded this weekend, she nipped into a tea lounge, an institution giving India 's traditional tipple a modern twist.
09 18 2007 6:55PM (...more)

Trouble in Darjeeling as India's Gorkha people campaign for new state

DARJEELING, India (AFP) - Leaders of the ethnic Nepali-speaking minority in India 's mountainous and tea-rich northeast have started month-long prayers to press for their own federal state.
07 8 2008 10:32PM (...more)

Indian Idol reignites Gorkhaland fire in Darjeeling

DARJEELING (Reuters) - India 's Darjeeling hills have come alive with fresh demands for a separate state within India for the Gorkha people, with protests threatening the area's renowned tea and tourism industries.
03 19 2008 7:55PM (...more)

Darjeeling Limited in Translation

Wes Anderson is a man who makes movies that look like Wes Anderson made them. People who've never studied a lick of film theory can identify his directorial footprint by looking at the composition of a single frame, seeing the sad-sack
10 18 2007 4:56PM (...more)

Wilson surprises "Darjeeling" premiere crowd

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Owen Wilson made asurprise appearance at Thursday night's Los Angeles premiere ofthe road comedy "The Darjeeling Limited," his first publicouting since a reported suicide attempt in August.
10 6 2007 10:17AM (...more)

Review: `Darjeeling' too self-satisfied

"The Darjeeling Limited," the latest self-satisfied exercise in style over substance from writer-director Wes Anderson , will amuse his cult followers — as well as Anderson himself and his pals, of course — but probably nobody else.
10 2 2007 12:13PM (...more)

"Darjeeling Limited" a torturous train ride

VENICE, Italy (Hollywood Reporter) - The whimsical andinsightful charm that Wes Anderson and his filmmaking pals havedisplayed in such films as "Rushmore" and " The RoyalTenenbaums " curdles ruinously in the Indian sun that shines sobrightly in their smug and self-satisfied new film "TheDarjeeling Limited."
09 4 2007 10:34PM (...more)

Quirky Wes Anderson unveils 'The Darjeeling Limited' at Venice

VENICE, Italy (AFP) - Quirky US director Wes Anderson will unveil his fraternal bonding odyssey "The Darjeeling Limited" at the Venice film festival on Monday.
09 3 2007 6:16PM (...more)

India's Darjeeling strike hits Sikkim tourism

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - The effects of a strike in India's Darjeeling hills over demands for autonomy have spread to the mountain state of Sikkim , scaring away tourists and causing huge losses to hoteliers, officials said on Wednesday.
06 19 2008 1:50PM (...more)