Almost 5% of the population of Sri Lanka work in the billion-dollar tea industry, picking leaves on the mountain slopes and processing the tea in plantation factories. The cultivation and selling ...

Leaves from the lush green tea estates covering the hills of central Sri Lanka end up in cups across the world. Tea is the island's biggest export, normally bringing in more than $1bn a year ...

Now if only we could get him to enjoy some fellow Sri Lankan authors. Perhaps a challenge set by a man who has presented a history of Sri Lanka, like no other has yet to do. Tales accessible to the ...