A Cuppa Chai at This Cafe Can Help Disabled & Trans People

What a wonderfully vibrant cafe!

You should break bread at this cafe that breaks barriers like never before!

(Photo Courtesy: Facebook/Nukkad)

‘Nukkad, the Teafe’, a cafe in Bhilai, Chattisgarh, is iconic in more than one way. Apart from serving coffee at a not-so-exorbitant rate, it employs people with visual and speech impairment and trans persons.

For the founder, the journey wasn’t a pleasant one. When he envisioned the cafe, his peers and fellow colleagues were classic naysayers:

When I started approaching transpeople, the feedback that I received from the community was not encouraging at all. Yet, I egged on. After months of hard work, here I am getting interviewed!

Priyank Patel

The cafe is an interesting amalgamation of inclusivity and great food: one learns a lesson or two about respecting communities we ignore whist enjoying their food.

Do watch the video and let us know if you know of more such places!

Nukkad Cafe, Bhilai. (Photo Courtesy: Facebook/Nukkad)