The power of social media can never be undermined. A heartwarming video that surfaced in the internet has managed to gather a huge fan base overnight.
An aged couple who owns a small eatery in Malviya Nagar, South Delhi known as Baba ka Dhaba is the recent sensation. The small joint serving home-cooked meal is owned by 80-year-old Kanta Prasad and his wife.
The video that went viral showed vessels containing dal, soya curry, and other dishes that were ready to serve. On questions about the daily earnings, the couple said that they don’t acquire more than Rs 80 per day, in spite of beginning their day ahead of schedule at 6.30 am. In the video, the elderly man can be seen in tears as his business of a little street-side restaurant endured a colossal mishap in the lockdown surfaced on the Internet.
This little venture of the elderly couple has been well received by social media. Apart from the showers of love poured by the social media fraternity, celebrities like Raveena Tandon, Chitrangada Singh, and Randeep Hooda have also urged people to visit the stall and shared the video to promote this eatery in South Delhi
While the most exceedingly terrible of COVID-19 might be behind us, it will in any case take months, if not years, to escape the circumstance and things to return to ordinary. Perhaps things will never return to as it was before veils turned into the new typical. And for helpless people like this couple, the struggle is unbelievable but the outburst of support received thus helps us restore our faith in humanity.