Bedi & Sons

Bedi & Sons has been operating out of A 2/Bk in Anand Parbat for a long time. It was my father’s place first, and now we keep it going. The area is quite industrial and busy, with a lot of dust from the nearby workshops. We aren't a big corporation, just a family business trying to make a living. We have shelves full of stuff that has been sitting there for years, mixed in with the new stock we get every week. It is a bit of a maze inside. If you ask for something specific, I usually know exactly which pile it is under, even if it looks like a mess to anyone else. We don’t have fancy signs or a big marketing budget. Most of our customers are people who have been coming to us for decades. They know our names and we know theirs. Sometimes we spend more time drinking tea and talking about the weather than actually selling things. That's just how we like it. The shop gets very cold in the winter because the walls are thin, so we keep a small heater by the desk. It’s a humble spot, nothing like the big stores you see in the malls. We just open the shutters in the morning and wait to see who walks in. It’s a steady life, and Anand Parbat feels like home to us after all these years.