If life has taught me anything, it’s to never give up. But this lesson didn’t come easilyI had to learn it the hard way. Decades ago, I was a government employee stationed in a remote village nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas. It was a place far removed from the comforts of modern civilization. There were no proper roads, no reliable way to communicate with the outside world in an emergency. My office and residence were one and the same: a small bamboo hut with a corrugated steel roof that rattled in the wind. The village itself was modest, with no more than ten shops lining the dusty road. Among them was a tiny tea shop run by Anil, a man about my age. His shop was a simple one-room setup, rarely visited by customers. Anil lived behind the shop with his wife, and over time, we became close… Never give up