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<strong>Braving the adverse circumstances, some individuals manage to overcome them. Take for example the case of Kolkata&rsquo;s Tuktuki Das. Facing unemployment, despite being a postgraduate in English, she decided to eke out an honest living by starting a tea shop.</strong></p>
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What indeed is interesting is the name of Das&rsquo; tea stall, &ldquo;MA English Chaiwali&rdquo;.</p>
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Her story starts many years back when her parents taught and advised her to study hard to become an achiever. Wanting her to become a teacher, they encouraged her. Her hard work bore fruits and she did well in her examinations, doing MA in English.</p>
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Then started her travails as she could not get a job despite having attempted several exams. She left no stone unturned yet was not able to succeed.</p>
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While any other person would have given up but not Das as she decided to open a tea shop and sell one of the favourite beverages of common people. She started a tea shop in Habra station in North 24 Parganas. The banner of her shop at the station reads, &ldquo;MA English Chaiwali&rdquo;.</p>
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While Das&rsquo; father is a driver, her mother manages a grocery shop. Initially they were unhappy when she started the tea shop, later they were impressed as Tuktuki instead of being bogged down by failure to get a job, turned her energies to make the shop a success.</p>
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Talking to news18,com, she disclosed that in beginning this venture she was inspired by the story of &ldquo;MBA Chaiwala&rdquo; about whom she had read on the Internet. &ldquo;I thought no work is small and therefore I, like the &lsquo;MBA chaiwala&rsquo;, started working on my own tea shop. Initially, it was difficult to get space but I managed to find it later on. Now I am selling tea and snacks. Because I have an MA degree, I named the shop this way.&quot;</p>
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Unmoved about what people think or say, Das stressed that no work is small or big as she was determined to make her tea venture a success story.</p>
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Prashanto Das, her father, talking about her said: &ldquo;Initially I was not happy with her decision, as we educated her with the hope that she would become a teacher and she ended up wanting to sell tea. I reconsidered and thought that if this is her decision so as to become self-reliant, then that&rsquo;s good.&quot;</p>
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Many of the customers who come to her shop are intrigued by its name while several praise her determination to eke out an honest living and becoming self-reliant. They feel, her example can be inspirational for several young men and women, who despite their qualifications are unable to get a job.</p>
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In the past too, there have been examples of people making it big despite their initial setbacks. Praful Billore, who is the son of a farmer from Madhya Pradesh&rsquo;s Labravda village after being unable to clear Common Admission Test for MBA, started a tea stall and today has more than 22 outlets in the country with an international outlet too.</p>
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