Bansal Machinery Store

Bansal Machinery Store is located on Naya Bazaar Road. This is a classic market street, so it's always packed with people, rickshaws, and other shops. Our store is filled from floor to ceiling with different kinds of machinery and spare parts. It’s a bit of a maze inside if you don't know where things are kept, but we know every corner of it. We spend our mornings opening up the shutters and dusting off the displays. The air in Naya Bazaar is always full of the smells of the market—food from the vendors and exhaust from the scooters. We don’t have any fancy air conditioning, just a couple of ceiling fans that hum all day long. Customers come in with broken parts or photos of machines they need to replace. We spend a lot of time looking through old catalogues or checking our stock in the back room. It’s a hands-on kind of job, and our hands are rarely clean by the end of the day. We don't use any complicated computer systems; we mostly rely on our ledgers and what we remember. There's a certain rhythm to the day here, from the first customer in the morning to the time we pull the shutters down at night. We’ve seen many other shops come and go on Naya Bazaar Road, but we’re still here, just doing what we’ve always done. Sometimes we share a snack with the neighbor who sells hardware next door. It’s that kind of street.