Laxman Rao, novelist and playwright, sold chai from his stall in Delhi until the lockdown
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March 07, 2021 08:07 IST
The author of 25 Hindi books, he’s received awards from NGOs and literary associations and been covered more than 100 times in print, broadcast and digital media
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Laxman Rao at his tea-cum-bookstall.
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Md Imran Raza
The author of 25 Hindi books, he’s received awards from NGOs and literary associations and been covered more than 100 times in print, broadcast and digital media
India’s capital is home to a famous
chaiwala. A darling of the press, fêted by numerous organisations and no stranger to the highest echelons of political office, Laxman Rao has led a storied life. It wasn’t his brews but his books that catapulted him into the public eye, and even into Teen Murti House, where Indira Gandhi hosted him in 1984. A few decades down the line, then President Pratibha Patil also had the honour. Now the au