Geekay Kusum Masala & Spice Extracts Ltd

Most days the smell of turmeric and chili is so strong in Vyalikaval you can sense it before you even see our building. Geekay Kusum Masala & Spice Extracts Ltd has been operating out of No.32 for a long time. It’s not a very quiet place because the machines are always grinding something or the other. We deal with all sorts of spices. Some come in big sacks and others leave in small packets. My hands are usually stained yellow from the powder. We have a routine here that starts early in the morning. The 2nd Main Road gets quite busy with deliveries, so we try to get the heavy lifting done before the traffic builds up. Spices are tricky business. If the moisture is wrong, everything is ruined. We spend a lot of time checking the drying floors. It is hard work and it gets hot in the grinding room. My uncle started this whole thing years ago. Now we just keep the grinders running. We don’t do much advertising. People know where to find us when they need quality powder for their cooking. Sometimes the machines break down and we have to fix them ourselves. It’s just how things are run in a place like this. We focus on the grinding and the packing. The neighborhood knows us by the aroma, for better or worse. It’s a honest day’s work and it keeps us all moving forward.