Agra's kaanji bade wale baba, whose video went viral in 2020, dies battling cancer

Narayan Singh became famous on social media after a food blogger shared his video in October 2020 appealing to locals to visit his stall to raise his income which dried up due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Agra's ''kaanji bade wale baba'', who received sympathy and assurance of help after a video showing his financial troubles during the lockdown went viral, has died in penury battling cancer. The 90-year-old Narayan Singh had been running his ''kaanji bada'', a dish made up of ''moong dal'' and served with mustard chutney, stall in the Kamla Nagar locality in Agra for 40 years. His son Pinky said his father had been very ill with cancer for the past four months and died Saturday during treatment at a private hospital.