In the mid-90s, a quiet village in eastern Nepal witnessed a revolution — one that transformed its landscape and its people. This revolution was the birth of a new era in tea farming, but it came with a...

As a child growing up in the picturesque village of eastern Nepal, my brother and I embarked on a daily 4.5-kilometer walk to school — a journey that took us around 60–70 minutes. The trek was not always...