Abhishek Kumar Alkesh Kumar Rice Mills

We are tucked away behind Pancham Motors on Bareilly Road. It’s a bit of a strange spot because people often think we’re part of the car place, but we’re just sharing the space near the Ambedkar Hostel. You can hear the students talking as they walk past to their classes. The mill itself is run by the family, and we named it after the sons. It’s a lot of responsibility having your name on the gate. We get a lot of dust from the road and the motor shop, so cleaning is a never-ending task. The trucks have a hard time turning around in the narrow space we have here, which leads to some loud arguments with the drivers now and then. We mostly deal with small-scale lots of rice. It’s not the biggest mill in the area, but we try to be thorough with what we do. Sometimes we have to stay late to finish a batch because the electricity was flickering in the afternoon. We don't have a big marketing team or anything like that. If someone needs rice milled, they just show up and we talk about it. It’s very informal. We use old ledgers to keep track of things mostly. It’s just a regular local business trying to stay afloat and do a decent job for the folks around Bareilly Road. It's nothing fancy, just hard work and long days.