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'Chai Wale Baba' guiding civil service aspirants for 40 yrs
The Free Press Journal
|January 10, 2025
Chai Wale Baba," a tea seller turned ascetic from Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, has been providing free coaching for civil services aspirants for the past 40 years without eating or speaking anything.
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Known as Dinesh Swaroop Brahmachari, he has vowed to remain silent and abstain from food, surviving solely on ten cups of tea daily while guiding students through WhatsApp.
This story is from the January 10, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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