Anjani Associates

The textile market is always buzzing with people and the smell of new fabric. You can find us at Shop No. 165 in the D-block extension of the market on Pur Road. It’s a bit of a maze in there if you aren’t used to the layout. We’ve had this shop for a long time, and honestly, the walls could probably use some new paint, but we are too busy to worry about that. We handle all sorts of fabrics and textile materials. Some days the shop is so full of rolls of cloth that you can barely walk from the door to the back counter. We keep everything recorded in these big old ledgers because we don’t really trust the computers for everything yet. It’s a lot of manual work, lifting and measuring and cutting. My hands are usually a bit rough from the fabric by the end of the day. We don’t have a big staff, just a few of us who have been together for years. We know most of the regulars by name and usually stop to have a chat and some chai when they come by. It’s not a corporate environment at all. We just do our thing and try to keep up with the orders. It gets dusty in here with all the lint, but that is just part of the job in a place like this. We stay late most nights just to clear the floor.