Monday, August 03, 2015

Indian tea-seller who hawks his books on Amazon...

Laxman Rao is not your ordinary chai wallah.

Apart from the sweet milky tea his customers love, he also sells 24 Hindi-language titles he has authored.

His open air tea shop, registered with the municipality, is essentially a few planks of wood perched on bricks, some buckets of water, ceramic and paper cups, kettles and a gas stove all neatly placed on the pavement.

Born to a farmer in a village in the western state of Maharashtra, Mr Rao left for Delhi - the hub of major Hindi language publishers - in 1975 to fulfil his dream of becoming a writer.

He worked as a construction worker, washed dishes at a restaurant and finally managed to open a shop to sell paan (betel leaves), beedi (hand-rolled cigarettes) and cigarettes a few yards away from his current tea stall. After a few years, he graduated to selling tea as it was more profitable. Full story...

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