Shravanthi Provision Store

Living and working on D V G Road in Bagepalli means seeing a lot of traffic go by. Our store is at 5-17-28 and it’s been the same for a good while now. Inside, it smells like a mix of dried chilies and tamarind. We spend a lot of time weighing out sugar and flour into small plastic bags. The weighing scale is an old one but it still works fine if you balance it right. My hands are usually a bit dusty from handling the grain sacks all morning. It’s not a quiet place because the street outside is always noisy with horns and people shouting. We have those glass jars on the counter filled with sweets that the kids always point at. Sometimes the electricity cuts out and the shop gets dark, but we know where everything is by heart. You learn who likes which brand of cooking oil and who wants the extra large eggs. When the monsoon hits, the floor gets a bit muddy from all the boots, so we keep a rag handy. It is just a routine of filling shelves and talking to the neighbors about the weather or the price of onions going up again. We don't have any big signs or bright lights. It’s just a place to get what you need for the kitchen without making a big fuss about it.