Sawitri Jadi Booti Bhandar

If you know Khari Baoli, you know how busy it gets. Our shop, Sawitri Jadi Booti Bhandar, is at 340 Katra Hussain Bux. It’s right in the middle of everything. We deal with herbs and traditional items, the kind of things people have been using for ages. The smell in the air around here is always a mix of spices and dried plants. It’s a very old part of the city, and our shop feels like it belongs here. We have rows and rows of jars and bags filled with different roots and leaves. Some days the dust from the spices makes everyone sneeze, but we’re used to it by now. My family has been doing this for a long time. We don't use fancy labels or high-tech systems. We mostly rely on what we know and what our customers tell us they need. Katra Hussain Bux is a tight space, so things can feel a bit cramped when we get a big delivery. We spend a lot of time weighing things out on the old scales and packing them into small bags. It’s a very manual process. There’s no corporate office or anything like that, just the shop floor and a small space in the back for storage. People come from all over because Khari Baoli is famous for this stuff. We just keep doing what we've always done, day after day, in this little corner of the market. It is hard work but we are here.