K R Vijayakumar & K R Basavaraja

The business run by K R Vijayakumar & K R Basavaraja is located on the Yeshwantpur Magadi Main Road, at number 88/1. It is a busy stretch of road, always full of dust and the constant sound of horns. We have been working together for a long time now. The building is an old one, with high ceilings and those heavy iron shutters that are a real pain to open in the morning. We handle a lot of wholesale trading, so there are always crates and boxes being shifted from one side of the room to the other. It’s not the cleanest job, and our clothes are usually covered in some kind of dust by noon. We don't have a fancy office with air conditioning or soft chairs. We just have a couple of old desks and some stools where we sit to talk to the customers who come in. Most of our clients have been buying from us for decades. They know they can find us here six days a week without fail. We don't use any complicated computer systems; a simple notebook and a calculator usually work fine for our daily records. It’s a straightforward way of doing things that we learned from our fathers. We see the city changing around us, with new buildings going up everywhere, but our little corner on Magadi Main Road stays pretty much the same. It’s hard work, but we are used to it.