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Rags to riches, the chai draw

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Apr 25, 2022
Rags to riches, the chai draw

Anumula Baburao the owner of Niloufer cafes in Hyderabad traces his accelerate from working as a busboy to proudly owning two swanky tea lounges

Anumula Baburao the owner of Niloufer cafes in Hyderabad traces his accelerate from working as a busboy to proudly owning two swanky tea lounges

When 16-year-inclined Anumula Baburao got right here to Hyderabad from Adilabad attempting for a job in 1978, all he wanted was as soon as to wait on his fogeys take back the cow they’d sold to pay his examination charge. Now at 60, he’s the owner of the four branches of Niloufer Cafe; two are top rate tea lounges that attend the favored bun-maska (most popular merchandise), vada-pav, sabudana khichdi, kulcha sandwich and continental snacks handle onion rings, jalapeno pops and a lot extra. The tea lounges provide a vary of teas starting from adrak (ginger) masala, and lemon to speciality teas handle chamomile, inexperienced and earl grey.

The AC tea allotment at Lakdi-ka-pul and these at Jubilee Hills and Himayatnagar in Hyderabad maintain their genesis within the Niloufer Cafe the light to be a favorite Irani chai shop at Lakdikapul (shut to Niloufer clinic) the obtain one had Irani chai, puffs, Osmania biscuits and Patti-samosa.

Inside of Himayatnagar Niloufer cafe
| Photo Credit score: Varun Kumar Mukhiya

Baburao started his life in Hyderabad by working at a material shop in Nampally, sound asleep and bathing within the waiting room at Nampally Railway Characteristic. He believes he was as soon as at the accurate obtain at the accurate time with the accurate folks that helped him rise from a busboy to a waiter and then lastly a companion at the chai shop. 

Sitting on the first floor at the newly opened top rate tea lounge at Himayatnagar, Baburao recalls, “When I got right here shopping for a job,folks helped me. I are attempting to create the identical for assorted job. aspirants I was as soon as six years inclined after I left home owing to family cases. I was as soon as sent to Chandrapur in Maharashtra to are living with my uncle. I lived there as prolonged as they would possibly also come up with the cash for to feed an additional mouth.” 

After that, he went to a hostel whisk by the Vaishya community in Maharashtra. There he studied with out cost until Class X and worked at material stores in his spare time to assemble cash for his charges. 

But he had to quiz his fogeys who lived in Adilabad district in (undivided) Andhra Pradesh for ₹ 100 to pay his Matric examination charge . “My aim was as soon as to definite the matric exam so that I would possibly perchance perchance procure a job and enhance my fogeys. My father sold the cow for ₹250. The cow was as soon as my fogeys’ provide of earnings. I was as soon as devastated but my father encouraged me by announcing ‘Till now we couldn’t create the leisure on your reports. You definite your matric, procure a job and have in mind to wait on must you change into succesful’. Those words are etched in my mind.. Quickly after I wrote my exam, I left for Hyderabad attempting for a job. I travelled by passenger educate because I couldn’t come up with the cash for to decide on a bus put. I got down at Nampally bellow and requested the obtain I would possibly perchance perchance secure material outlets. Someone d
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