On a Wednesday afternoon, Board Games Hub at Saibaba Colony, is near-vacant. Its founder, Prakash Nagalingam, and his staff are engrossed in a game as we enter. One of the best things about running a board games cafe is that your work entails playing board games on a midweek day. Going by the empty tables, it is fair to say not many share the same fortune.
Prakash interrupts his game to talk about his six-month-old venture and boyish excitement for board games. We choose a four-seater wooden table that faces a painted wall with board game elements like coins and characters and the words ‘Game On’ in the middle.
Hailing from Tiruppur, it hardly surprises us to know Prakash got into textile export. But how did this textile businessman set up a board games cafe in Coimbatore?
