Neurodivergent staff run the show at this new Delhi HC café. It’s fast becoming lawyers’ favourite haunt

On stepping inside the café, visitors are greeted by a warm and charming Arunima Bhaduri, who manages a kiosk of a non-profit, Shaurya Foundation Trust, at Sagar Express. Hand-made paintings, coasters, brownies, cookies, mugs, and water bottles made by neurodivergent persons are sold at the kiosk adjacent to the café’s cash counter.
Bhaduri, 35, hails from Kolkata, West Bengal. Her neurodivergence is known as dyscalculia, a “specific and persistent difficulty in understanding numbers”. Besides, she has been diagnosed with a developmental coordination disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia. Significantly, these conditions have not held Bhaduri back from earning two Master’s degrees, one in history and the other in tourism studies.