: For 8 Years, Bareilly Woman Has Educated Underprivileged Kids By Selling Her Special Spices #IndiaNEWS #Entrepreneurs Travelling the world with my husband, who was in the merchant navy at the time,

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For 8 Years, Bareilly Woman Has Educated Underprivileged Kids By Selling Her Special Spices #IndiaNEWS #Entrepreneurs
Travelling the world with my husband, who was in the merchant navy at the time, the one thing I always enjoyed was the different food I got to taste,� says 65-year-old Anuradha Khandelwal, a resident of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Not one to be satisfied with just having eaten all the scrumptious food, Anuradha decided to recreate the magic for others as well.
Having travelled to more than 20 countries, Anuradha was exposed to various cuisines and flavours.
From the Fiji Islands to Bangladesh and New Zealand, Anuradha says that each of these trips have left her with a treasure trove of recipes and memories.
Anuradha with her husband, Shekher Khandelwal.
Recollecting her younger days when she sailed with her husband, she says, “My husband was with a Japanese company and the chef on-board would whip up wonderful Teriyaki. I remember asking him to teach me every step he followed in making it. I would note it down diligently and almost never looked back at it until my niece got married and asked me how to make different dishes. �
She continues, “Her call requesting a recipe got me thinking. Up until then I hadn’t done anything solely for myself – not to say I regretted things I did. � This prompted Anuradha to create a Facebook page called Anu Can Cook, So Can You, on which she posted two recipes and left it at that. The next day she left for Lucknow oblivious of the activity on her page. “I returned to 200 new followers and I had no idea what they were all doing there,� she says with a chuckle.
Anu Can Cook, So Can You
Mother-daughter duo
In 2014, the page’s fan base grew almost overnight to more than 1,000 followers, and shortly after there were more than 6,000 followers on her page. It was then that Anuradha decided to take one more step forward by recreating some of the spice mixes she had learnt during her travelling days. “I must confess I started with a lot of trepidation. I wasn’t sure of who might even buy the spices,� she says.
“With zero marketing or sales background I dived into entrepreneurship armed with a great deal of passion and enthusiasm,� she says. What’s interesting about the spices she sells is what Anuradha chose to do with the money she earned. She has taken it upon herself to fund the education of children in her neighbourhood. “Around 2014, I started with a peanut vendor whose son was keen on studying but his alcoholic father did not have the means to support his education,� she says.
Having started with one child the initiative expanded slowly and Anuradha soon had five children’s education to support. “One of the reasons I continued the spice and food business was to support more children.

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