Café Niloufer, a classic Hyderabadi cafe named after a hospital, is well-known for its Irani chai. After Babu Rao, a former employee who had worked there as a cleaner, assumed administration in 1976, it began to grow in popularity.
The cafe is always packed with patrons who have been going there for decades because of its delicious tea. Talking to The Hindu, Babu Rao stated:
Early on, I realized that tea is a necessity and that people drink it several times a day but yet want the flavor to stay consistent. I’ve made sure it stays that way. To get the ideal hue, consistency, and flavour, we blend our own tea powder.
Babu Rao was born into a poor family in a small village in the Adilabad region of Telangana. Even throughout his school days in Maharashtra, he worked as an assistant in his uncle’s store. His father’s sale of their cow to provide money for his books is one memory that he holds dear. He realized the significance of sacrifice after realizing what the cow meant to his father.
After deciding to work on improving his life, Babu Rao finished his schooling and went back to Hyderabad. He had to fight his way through, sleeping on the platform of the Secunderabad railway station. After taking on a couple menial jobs, he made the decision to work at the cafe in order to guarantee that he could at least eat.
He began his employment at the café as a cleaner and was later promoted to serve tables and then to make tea and biscuits. As he quickly ascended the ladder, Babu Rao signed a contract with the cafe to manage it by 1978.
Babu Rao was initially just allowed to take home the profits, but he also had to give the owners a set sum of money each month. But by 1993, he had made enough money to buy the cafe, and he has been operating it ever since.
Currently, this self-made man is giving back to society by providing free meals to hundreds of people every day. For the previous ten years, he has been doing this. He stated, in an interview with The News Minute,It illustrates the number of city dwellers who experience daily hunger. There hasn’t been a day in so many years when people haven’t lined up. The greatest social service one can provide is to feed someone.
