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Nepal, July 17 -- When I made Nepali chiya for the first time in a German kitchen, I didn't expect anyone to get emotional. But Luna's mother took a sip, closed her eyes, and whispered, "This smell takes me back to the ghats of Banaras."In that moment, I realised we weren't just sharing a cup of tea: we were sharing something far deeper, memory, nostalgia, and the invisible string that connects all of us. In the 1980s, a young German backpacker named Stephan went on a journey to North India and Nepal. When he returned, he often said, "There's no place in the world like that. I can't explain how it feels-you have to be t...