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Article

1 Jun 2009

Author:
Mari Marcel Thekaekara, Infochange India

Malgudi Coffee Shop and other stories [India]

The idea of a coffee shop had been on the agenda for a while. Why not get balmiki [dalit] girls to run it? And so we did....The Malgudi Coffee Shop opened on February 2, 2009, with much fanfare…Alexis de Ducla,...tarted the La Boulangerie school to train young dalit boys to bake the French way. Their products are bought by five-star hotels and Chennai’s more discerning foodies...