Kolkozy

The sun usually hits the front of our place on Gurukul Road pretty early in the morning. We’ve been here at Kolkozy for a while now, just doing our thing. Most days it is just us packing up orders and making sure the labels are stuck on straight. It’s not a very fancy operation, honestly. We have a few old tables and some chairs that creak when you sit down. Sometimes the traffic outside gets really loud with all the horns, but we have gotten used to it over the years. We started this because we wanted to make items that people could actually use in their daily lives without them falling apart. My cousin comes by to help when we have too many boxes to move. We spend a lot of time checking the seams on everything. If a thread is loose, we fix it right there. Gurukul Road has changed quite a bit since we first moved in, with new shops opening up and old ones closing, but we are still in the same spot. People stop by sometimes just to ask for directions or to see what we are working on. It gets a little dusty in the afternoons so we have to sweep the floor at least twice. We don’t have any big corporate office with glass walls. It is just a workspace where we put in the hours. Sometimes the tea kettle breaks and those are the truly difficult days. We just keep our heads down and work.