Ashwini Gupta

This is basically a home-run setup at House Number B/24 near Shera Wala Gate. If you know Baniya Bazar Chowk, you’ll find us right across from the Lovely Dry Cleaner. It’s a very busy part of the market, so there’s always shouting and horns honking outside. Working from a house means the boundaries between life and work get a bit blurred sometimes. You might hear the kitchen sounds or someone’s kids playing in the background while we’re trying to talk business. We don’t have a big warehouse, so we use whatever space we have in the rooms to store things. It can get a bit cluttered, especially when a big shipment arrives and blocks the hallway. The dry cleaner across the street is a good landmark because otherwise, people might miss our door in the middle of all the other shops. We drink a lot of tea here to keep going through the long market hours. Sometimes the accounts get a bit messy, and we have to spend the whole evening sorting through crumpled papers. It’s not a polished corporate office by any means. There’s no lobby or receptionist, just us in the middle of the bazar trying to keep things moving. We’ve been here for years, so we know all the other shopkeepers and the street vendors by name. It’s loud and hectic, but it is home and it works for us.