Kathmandu, May 25 -- Workers were not denying profit to the industry. They were demanding only a fair share of the value created by their own labor

In between the morning sips of my favorite cup of tea, I could not help wry smiles as I listened to the song Aljhechha Kyare Pacchyauri Timro Chiya ko Buta maa (perhaps your shawl is caught in the tea bush), in the backdrop of beautiful tea gardens and maidens picking up the tea leaves in my television screen. The cocktail of romance and melancholy of Bhupi Serchan and Narayan Gopal in this song has intoxicated a generation of Nepali listeners, myself included. But, oblivious to our inebriated eyes, generations of Nepali laborers were also enduring an ugly history created all along inside the...