He cycles 100km a day to peddle his 24 Books.
Writing books may be Rao’s passion but it earns him no bread. To made ends meet he sells tea for one rupee a cuppa. And while doing so he has to keep an open eye for the MCD evacuation squad who have displaced his make-shift stall once already. He has been a tea-seller since the last 25 years. Before tea-selling he has worked variously as a dishwasher, a construction labourer and a domestic servant.