Hiralal Trading Co.

Hiralal Trading Co. is out here at Plot No. 29 in Village Dheereran Station. It’s a bit of a trek if you’re coming from the main city, since we are in Tehsil Lunkaransar, right in the Bikaner district. The landscape around here is quite open and dry. Our work involves a lot of trading, mostly moving goods in and out of the station area. It’s a quiet place compared to the big markets, but when a train comes in, everything picks up speed. We spend a lot of time on the phone or checking the ledger. The office is just a simple room with a couple of chairs and a lot of paperwork. We don't have any fancy software to manage things. Everything is written down by hand usually. The wind blows a lot of sand around here, so we’re constantly sweeping the front step. It’s a small team, mostly just family and a couple of helpers from the village. We’ve been at this spot for years. Life moves a bit slower in Dheereran Station, and we like it that way. We don't have big corporate goals. We just want to make sure the trades go through and the deliveries are on time. Sometimes the weather makes things difficult, especially when it’s too hot to be outside, but we manage. It’s just a regular trading business in a quiet corner of Bikaner. The train schedules pretty much dictate how our day goes. If the train is late, we are late.