It’s raining happiness at panipuri vendor’s house

Vadodara: Eighteen-year-old Dixit Modi on Monday made his parents proud. Dixit’s father Santosh sells ‘panipuri’ and ‘bhelpuri’ at a crossroad in Vadodara’s Chhani area while mother Ramila is a homemaker.
For Santosh, who himself could not study beyond class ten, his younger son securing 99.68 percentile with 88 % marks is off course a big achievement.
“I will join BCom and simultaneously start working to become CA,” said Dixit, a student of St Joseph school, who has bagged A2 grade. “I don’t want my sons to remain dependent on such uncertain source of income. I have always wished that they study in the stream of their choice but have a bright future,” said Santosh, 49, adding that there have been times when he had to struggle to make ends meet.
“But I have managed it,” said Santosh, a resident of Tarunnagar society, who runs a ‘panipuri lari’ at Ding Dong chowkdi in TP 13 near Chhani jakatnaka.
Santosh’s efforts are also not going in vein. His elder son Chirag, 20, is already in the final year of computer engineering at M S University’s Faculty of Technology and Engineering.