Sai Gems

If you head over toward Subhash Bridge, you'll find us in the Supan Meridien building. It’s a fairly easy place to spot, though the traffic near the bridge can be a bit of a nightmare during rush hour. We spend most of our time looking at stones and sorting through things. It isn't like those jewelry shops in the movies. There’s a lot of dust and we use small tools that hurt your eyes if you stare too long. We’ve got a small setup here. It’s mostly just sitting at the benches and checking how the stones look. Sometimes the light in the office isn't great, so we have to move closer to the window to see the colors properly. We’ve been at this for a long time. People from around the neighborhood know we’re here. We don't really do big advertisements or anything like that. Word of mouth usually does the trick for us. It’s a quiet kind of work, very different from the noise outside on the main road. We keep our coffee machine running pretty much all day because the afternoons get slow. The building has some other offices too, so there’s always people coming and going in the hallway. It’s just a normal workplace where we try to get things right. Sometimes the shipments are late and we have to stay a bit later to catch up. That’s just how it goes.