Mother Dairy

If you head behind the G.P.O. in Mirzapur and look for Hiralal Motilal Chawl, you’ll find us at 777/3. It’s a tight squeeze in this part of Ahmedabad but it works for what we do. We’ve been handling the milk and dairy side of things here for a long time. The mornings are usually the most hectic because everyone wants their supplies before the sun gets too hot. We don't have a big corporate office or anything like that. It’s just a counter, some crates, and a lot of familiar faces. People stop by on their way to work or while they’re out getting groceries for the house. The floor stays a bit damp from the ice and the crates, and there’s always the hum of the coolers in the background. We don't do much advertising because everyone in the chawl and the surrounding streets already knows where we are. It’s a simple setup. We take the deliveries, sort the packets, and make sure people get what they need. Sometimes we run out of certain things faster than others, and we just tell people to come back tomorrow. It’s a very local way of doing things. No one wears a uniform here, we just wear what’s comfortable for moving heavy boxes around. It’s honest work and it keeps us busy from dawn until we close up the shutters.