Failure only happens when you lose your willpower to continue trying...If we let the obstacles get the best of us then it was our choice to fail, not fate.― Lindsey Rietzsch
Failure only happens when you lose your willpower to continue trying...If we let the obstacles get the best of us then it was our choice to fail, not fate.― Lindsey Rietzsch
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Anila Thomas, who sells Tandoori Tea in clay pots near to Kerala's Ernakulam high court. You must have seen an array of tea seller stories. So in all of our minds, a curiosity will germinate what is the specialty of this story. Yet Anila 's story is her battle with cancer, not once but twice, and the circumstances that led her to run a tea shop near Kochi , Kerala, as a software engineer in TCS.
Anil Thomas belongs to a family of middle class. Her
family includes her parents, and a brother. Life had been regular. She was a
TCS software engineer at Coimbatore. Life took a U turn when she was diagnosed
with blood cancer in 2013 while working in TCS. She had to quit the job due to
cancer treatment. This left her in a debt of 30 lakhs. Anila started a small
startup after 3 years in 2016 which manufactured cotton waste. She also began a
paper plate company. It has also started a new textile shop. The organization,
gradually, developed. She also started an NGO which provided food materials to
100 cancer-affected families.
Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.― Stacey T. Hunt, Most Wanted
According to us things do not always happen. Anila was
unaware of another disaster that awaited her in the future. Sadly, for the
second time, she had cancer, now in the liver. Making the case even worse, her
father and brother had an accident. Her father lost Control of his memories
after this incident, and sometimes behaved like little children. She had to
undergo the operation in which 55 percent of her liver had been removed. She
left the hospital with 64 stitches, and the new trap came. A debt made by her
parents of 16 lakhs came in as a mighty blow to her career.
Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.―
She wasn't completely recovered even after 3 months after
the surgery. As she couldn't eat enough food, her doctor advised her to travel
to Ernakulam for better care. As Anila lying on the hospital bed wondering what
to do next, he came in like an angel. The two had met during social work. Noorul
gave her the idea to start a tandoori tea shop. Noorul was passionate about tea
and from You Tube he got the idea of opening a tandoori tea shop.
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.― William Shakespeare
Anila and Noorul built a shop in front of the Central Marine Fisheries
Research Institute (CMFRI) using bamboo sticks. There they serve Tandoori Tea
in clay pots for Rs 30 between 3PM and 11PM. Tea is available in 8 different
flavours. More flavors of tea and snacks will be added in the Menu in future.
Hard work is a hedge against bad luck and ill fate.
Every day approximately 200 people visit the shop and Anila now plans to
open another shop in Ernakulam. There are two surgeries yet to be performed but
the face of Anila is as vivid as the Sun.
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And her performance doesn't overshadow Anila.
"We will be told at any time to shut this roadside shop down. I do need a safe place to rest. We 're trying to move into a small store", she said determinedly.
