For quite some time ,Dsam had a disturbed sleep and sitting
at the desk till late night became a norm.He is worried about the sleep
deprivation and it affects his health and concentration on work.The fact is
that the work alone is causing this nuisance
of getting up 1 am or going to bed at
1 am and getting up at 3 53 ..The following incident happened on one of
these days .
It is all about the tea vendor ..Do not mistake me It is not
about Modi our PM, the warrior and savior of the poor .It is about the story of
one real tea vendor who started from the scratch.. A true life
story which brought real transformation
in Dsam.he would be a different man from today
fully mesmerized by his
On that day the weather was chill..He typed the notes..He
was quoting the opening para of the
banned novel written by D H Lawrence
while concluding the discourse on
demonetization..Around 5 30 am with full protection to insulate from the cold
and chill weather he went to his tea shop and surprised to find the owner and
not the boy who normally opens the shop at 4.
While sipping tea he asked the tea vendor(henceforth called
TV),whether he took his tea and pat came the reply :Sir I do not normally take
tea or milk or coffee.sam was shocked and he could not believe it .He asked
,Are you joking ?
I am honest . Right from my childhood I have not taken ,he
quipped .
He waited for me to
drink, as he knows the tea must
be hot for him.But sam forgot all these nonsense and remained eager to hear his
story .unusually there was not much crowd during those fprecious minutes. Otherwise he would
not have completed it
He stared narrating:
I am one among the seven children in the family .a very very
poor family .I studied till 4 th class only .I could not continue my studies
because my dad did not have paisa to give me enen a single note book to write.
Student friends will tear some pages from their note book and I manged for some
days.How long one can go like this/the teacher will make me to stand outside
the class room when I do not bring note book .It was shameful for me when other
boys make fun of me .then it was done .I stopped going to school
I started working first at 75 paisa per day and then at 2 rupee.then I went to
Thiruvannamali and worked at brick producing
place for 6 rupees per day .Eventually I landed at Pondicherry and a
benevolent owner gave me the job in his tea shop.At that time
the ruling wage for a master tea vendor
was Rs 6 per day ,but I was offered Rs 10 and I was given the freedom to handle
cash.The confidence and trust that the
owner had in me was so much that he did not even trust his wife .He would keep the day’s collections at the hotel itself and hand over the key to
me .Honesty and hard work paid rich dividends
and gradually moved out and started my own business in this Ajantha
corner and by the divine will I got a
trustworthy boy to help me and you have been seeing for more than two decades .
Dsam was stunned and bemused ..he told himself :Thank God .Fortunately
demonetization was waiting in the wing
let the machine process it and he
was all praise for him.Then TV continued
Sir when our house property was divided besides my share , I bought the share of six brothers as I wanted
that dad’s property should not go to others .
Did you help your brothers ,?
He replied “ only one brother was weak and had some problems
I financed his education till 10 th and
I helped him in purchasing the plot and
also in the house construction partially .but do you know one thing ,He is well
off now and he is in good terms with
other brothers and he has ignored me.I have not taken it to my
heart . I was in a situation to help him and I did
Then dsam shared his experience in the women’s college he was
working and asked whether TV supplied
tea there .
“Yes sir There was one lady officer who will place order
while going to the college and I myself will go and deliver “
Did you have any chance to see the girls there ..I mean
sight seeing ?
Sir I will never look at the girls I was brought up in the
shadows of poverty and economic
deprivation TV told that he has never smoked nor took any drink and led a principled
and disciplined life
The girl or extravagant life never attracted him ..led a
simple life practicing work ethics and dsam remembered his father and he was also reminded of his sense of diffidence
in not looking at the girl’s side for more than 10 days after his appointment as Assistant prof in a
college near Tellicherry .
Dsam parted by telling him about Infosys Narayana Murthy and how there is similarity between the
Billionaire and him in leading simple
life .
One who wins over kamam and does work with ethics and live
in truth and honesty is very rare to
come across-It is only this kind of commoners who save this country from
recession .when china is slumping people like him the true vendors make the country to race like a car but the
fake tea vendor shoots the tyre of theracing car making it to come to grinding
halt …...
