Aleena Zachariah (right) and Aneela Zachariah (left) work as ticket collectors at Pune railway station. The twins were born two minutes apart in their hometown of Kannur, Kerala. All of 176 cm in height, the Zachariah sisters represented India in the Asian Junior Volleyball Championships a few years ago. In 2008, Vaishali Phadtare, the then coach of the Central Railway volleyball team, spotted them when they were playing for Kerala in a Nagpur tournament and offered them their present jobs.
Aleena Zachariah (right) and Aneela Zachariah (left) work as ticket collectors at Pune railway station. The twins were born two minutes apart in their hometown of Kannur, Kerala. All of 176 cm in height, the Zachariah sisters represented India in the Asian Junior Volleyball Championships a few years ago. In 2008, Vaishali Phadtare, the then coach of the Central Railway volleyball team, spotted them when they were playing for Kerala in a Nagpur tournament and offered them their present jobs. In their first working week in Pune, Aleena had checked the tickets of a passenger near the front exit. The same man encountered Aneela a few metres ahead, close to the taxi stand. Confused, he asked her if there was a secret shortcut that she took to race ahead of him
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