Rajesh Light & Tent House

You can find us over on Milan Road in the Azad Nagar area. We do tents and lighting for all sorts of functions. Usually, it's weddings, but sometimes it’s just a small gathering or a religious event. Our yard is full of bamboo poles, folded-up colorful cloths, and crates of light bulbs. It looks like a mess to most people, but we know where everything is. Setting up a big tent in the wind is one of the toughest things we do. You have to get the ropes just right or the whole thing starts leaning. We work outside in the sun a lot, so we're all pretty tanned. The lights are the fun part, though. We have those long strings of fairy lights that we drape over houses. Sometimes a bulb goes out and you have to find the one that's causing the problem, which takes forever. People in Azad Nagar know us because we've been doing this for a long time. My father started the tent house, and I just kept it going. We don’t have a website or anything like that. People just see our work at a party and ask for our number. We try to be fair with the prices because everyone around here knows each other. It's tired work, especially during the wedding season when we don't get much sleep at all. We eat our meals sitting on the ground at the event sites. It’s exhausting, but when you see the whole place lit up at night, it feels like we did a decent job for the family.