Radhe Krishna Granites & Ceramics

Our shop is number 8, right near the Honnenahalli Post Office in the village. We’re out in the Bangalore North area, which is a bit of a drive from the city center. This location at Honnenahalli Village is good because we have enough space to keep the heavy slabs of granite and the boxes of ceramics. Radhe Krishna Granites & Ceramics is a simple shop with a concrete floor and some tin roofing over the back section. It gets really loud when the rain hits that metal roof, making it impossible to hear anything else. We spend most of our time moving heavy things around with a trolley. My back usually aches by the time we close up for the day. We don't have any fancy lighting to make the tiles look better than they are. What you see is what you get here. Most of our customers are locals from the village or builders working on nearby projects. We keep a small notebook to write down the orders and the payments because it’s quicker than the computer we bought last year. The shop is often dusty because of the road being unpaved in some parts. We have a few plastic chairs for people to sit on while they wait for their stuff to be loaded onto their trucks. It’s a basic life, but we like being part of the village community and knowing our neighbors by name.