Haji Abdul Raheem Saheb Sons

Finding Haji Abdul Raheem Saheb Sons can be a bit of a challenge if you aren’t used to the crowd at City Market. We are tucked away on Gundapant Street, right behind the main market area on Avenue Road. This part of town is always moving, with people carrying loads on their heads and carts pushing through the narrow lanes. The shop has been around for a long time, passed down through the family. You can smell the spices and the old building dust in the air around here. It’s a small space, packed with stock from floor to ceiling. We don’t have fancy displays or air conditioning; it’s just us and the goods we sell. Most of the day is spent talking to old regulars who have been coming to this street for decades. Sometimes the rain makes the street muddy and hard to walk through, but the business doesn't stop. We usually have tea delivered from the stall around the corner a few times a day while we sort through our inventory. It gets really cramped when several people come in at once, but we manage. There is a lot of history in these walls, even if the paint is peeling a bit here and there. We just open up early in the morning and stay until the market starts to quiet down in the evening. It is a simple life in a very busy part of Bangalore, just keeping things going as they always have been.