When reading Mythri Jegathesan’s piece Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka, it was not obvious to me at first what Jegathesan was articulating when differentiating from the older times of Sri Lanka, before colonialism. However, as context was given and the current day colonialism was explained, I was able to grasp the idea of citizens not being respected of their plantations, and the overall ignorance of a trademark to a race. I was also taken back by the immense hospitality presented throughout her years of creating her ethnography. Thinking back to my culture, it is a given to make sure the individual you are with is satisfied and happy, setting a great social presence among family and friends. One thing that also intrigued me was her feminist point of view, which allowed for the unbiased view of workers and the state they are working in. One strong question that remains was how many people’s experiences did she grapple with, as the time length she spent completing the ethnographic process seems long, yet worthy of its findings. I was very fond of the strategy used in order to understand the author’s perspective, and respect how much time she dragged away from herself, in order to justify the adversity a group of people have to undergo.