The Sahitya Akademi-winning author’s 2004 novel Kashi ka Assi chronicles life at the ghat during the 1990s. Whether the shop was already famous or first made popular by Kashi ka Assi is debatable but it continues to attract visitors. Some of them went to Kedar Tea Stall, now popularly known as Poi’s Tea Stall, a hundred metres away. Here, Singh is greeted as ‘Gurudev’ and within minutes, another glass of tea materialises, along with Gaya Singh, a Hindi writer who features in Kashi ka Assi. In Singh’s opinion, the award was to make up for Kashi ka Assi, which had, by then, won a lot of acclaim.

Source: Indian Express April 14, 2018 18:30 UTC