In the southern lowlands of Sri Lanka, at Kotapola, approximately 15 kilometers from Sinharaja, the island country’s largest rainforest, lies the Kaley tea estate. Their website describes it quite poetically, as being surrounded by forests and nourished by tropical sun and rain, cool mountain mist, and gusty winds. The estate, owned by Udena Wickremesooriya and his family, mak

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Writer, editor, columnist, tea reporter, and running Copac Media, a creative consultancy. Her interests are history and literature, and their influence on contemporary society. Aravinda has published with Penguin Random House (India).