Eshwar & Cos

We are located on Avenue Road in Kumbarpet. It is a very narrow and busy street, so you have to be careful when you are walking around. Our shop is at number 4. We’ve been here for years, and it feels like the street hasn’t changed much, even though the rest of the city has. Kumbarpet is known for its markets, and we fit right in with the rest of the shops. We deal with various goods and supplies, mostly things that local businesses need to keep running. The shop is small and packed from floor to ceiling with all kinds of stock. Sometimes it is hard to find things, but we usually know exactly which pile a certain item is hidden in. We don’t have a computer system for our inventory; it is all in our heads and some old notebooks we keep on the desk. We start early in the morning when the trucks are making their deliveries. It’s a lot of lifting and moving boxes around. The noise of the bells and the horns outside is constant. We talk to a lot of different people every day. Some are regular customers who have been coming to us for decades. We don’t try to impress anyone with fancy talk or sales pitches. We just tell them what we have and what it costs. It is a simple way of doing things, and it keeps us going. Most evenings we sit outside before we close up.