“When I was a kid back home, many people used to visit my grandmother instead of a clinic for their mild ailments like cough and cold. Ancient wisdom bequeathed by his grandmother helped hugely and there was big encouragement from friends in setting up Diya at Park Town. ![]() So what if he could not become a doctor, Rajeev had thought, before deciding to turn a healer of a different sort-serving herbal teas that promised remedies for a variety of ailments from common cold to respiratory issues and abdominal ‘corrections’. The story of Rajeev and Diya Snacks is born out of the influence from family roots and persuasion of some of his friends.Īnd also from a tiny tale of collapsed dream leading to a new dawn for, Rajeev had come to Chennai from native Palakkad in 1997 to join the MBBS course at the Madras Medical College and ended up running a tea shop across the road when his big ambition to become a doctor and serve the poor back home fell through some personal setbacks and he had to give up within a few months of enrolling at the prestigious MMC. Besides, there are others who are asking for different varieties of tea after looking at the list of 100 types of tea on the board with the name Diya Snacks. ![]() Chennai: It is 1:45 pm in the afternoon when four employees are coming out of the Railways Division Office at Park Town and calling out to Rajeev “Rajeev! Oru Panai Vellam, oru citrus, rendu honey tea”.
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