New Gulshan Kirana & General Store

The shop is located in Silk Mills Colony, right near the Corporation Hall on Station Road. New Gulshan Kirana & General Store has been a part of this Aurangabad neighborhood for a long time. It is a family-run thing, mostly. We open up early and stay late because that’s when people realize they ran out of sugar or dal for their dinner. The area around the Corporation Hall gets quite busy during the day, so we see a lot of different faces passing through. We carry the usual kirana items, spices, pulses, and household stuff. It’s nothing special to look at, just a regular shop with sacks of grain and rows of jars on the wall. Sometimes the delivery trucks block the road, which makes the neighbors a bit grumpy, but we sort it out eventually. Life in Aurangabad-Maharashtra moves at its own pace. We spend a lot of time just chatting with customers about the weather or local news while we weigh out their orders. It's not a supermarket where you grab things and leave without talking to anyone. Here, we actually handle everything ourselves. The floor needs a sweep every hour because of the street dust, but that's just part of the work. We keep the old ledger books by the till and try to keep track of everything manually. It’s hard work, but it keeps us busy and connected to the people living around here who depend on us for their daily groceries and supplies.