WE ARE ASSAM.
About Us
About Namhah
Single-estate tea, from the gardens we grew up beside.
Namhah started in 2016 because we were tired of seeing ‘Assam tea’ on supermarket shelves in Mumbai and Delhi that had passed through six middlemen before reaching the cup. We’re from Assam. The tea gardens here aren’t a marketing line for us — they’re the landscape we grew up in.
Ten years on, we work directly with sixteen estates across Assam, Darjeeling and Arunachal Pradesh. Halmari. Jogipathar. Mouling. Donyi Polo. Jungpana. Names we know by name, not by spreadsheet.
Every batch is tasted by us before it ships. Every order leaves our Guwahati warehouse within 24 hours. Every customer who walks into our GS Road store gets a free cup before they buy a single gram.
That’s the whole company in three sentences.
What sets Namhah apart
Garden-direct sourcing — no middlemen. Most tea you buy in India has changed hands four to six times between the garden and your kitchen. Each handoff is a markup, a quality compromise, a chance for inferior leaf to get blended in. We buy from the estates we name. What’s on the label is what’s in the pack.
Single-estate, never blended. The tea industry runs on blending. It’s how you take mediocre tea and make it taste consistent. We don’t do that. A Halmari CTC is Halmari, full stop. A Jogipathar white tea is from Jogipathar, packed within weeks of plucking. The estate, the flush, the grade — all on the label.
Hand-picked, never machine-cut. Every leaf in our premium and orthodox lines is plucked by pluckers with 15+ years of garden experience. Machine harvesting is faster and cheaper. It also breaks the leaves the wrong way and gives you a flatter cup. We don’t take that shortcut.
Tasted before it ships. Every batch — every single batch — is tasted by our team in Guwahati before it goes on the shelf. If a batch doesn’t meet the standard for that estate, we send it back. This is not a marketing claim. It’s how the warehouse works.
The founder
Ankit Baid · Founder
I grew up in a family that has been in the tea trade for over 70 years. Schooling in Silchar and Guwahati, engineering at SRM Chennai, two years building SAP systems at TCS. By 2015 I knew exactly what I wanted to do — come home to Assam, and fix the part of the tea industry that had always bothered me: the distance between the garden and the customer.
Namhah started in a small office in Guwahati with three teas and one idea: sell single-estate Assam tea, transparently, directly, without the layers in between. The first year was small. The second was harder. By year four we had the GS Road store. By year six, fifty million cups.
We’re still small enough that I personally taste most of what we ship. That’s a feature, not a bug. The day I stop doing that is the day the company has lost the plot.
— Ankit Baid
Why people trust us
50 Million+ Cups of Namhah tea served since 2016
16 Estates Direct relationships across Assam, Darjeeling and Arunachal
4.9 ★ From 300+ Google reviews of our GS Road store
1,200+ Total customer reviews across Google, Amazon and our site
Featured in The Telegraph, Economic Times, YourStory, Guwahati Plus.
Drop in for a cup.
If you’re ever in Guwahati, come visit. The GS Road store on Christian Basti is open seven days a week, 11 AM to 8:30 PM. We’ll brew you any tea on the shelf, no purchase expected, no pressure to buy. Most days I’m there myself in the afternoon.
It’s the best way to understand what we do. Reading about single-estate tea is one thing. Tasting a Halmari CTC against a supermarket CTC, side by side, is another.
Namhah Tea Experience Store Shop No 1, Agarwal House, GS Road, Christian Basti Guwahati, Assam 781005 Monday–Sunday, 11 AM – 8:30 PM +91 70023 19991 · WhatsApp
Where we go from here
We’re still based in Guwahati. We still ship every order from the same city. We still personally taste batches before they leave the warehouse. None of that is going to change as we grow.
What is changing: more estates in the catalogue, more cities visited, more tea types we couldn’t have sourced five years ago. The plan stays the same. Source honestly, sell transparently, treat the garden’s name as something worth protecting.
If that’s the kind of tea brand you want to drink — and visit, and gift — we’d love to have you with us.