S. K. Patel Engineering Works

Our workshop, S. K. Patel Engineering Works, is at Plot No.90 in Gali No.8 of the Anand Parbat Industrial Area. A lot of people find us by looking for Ram Jas School, which is just nearby. This part of Anand Parbat is really crowded and busy. The streets are very narrow and there are always scooters, delivery carts, and people blocking the way. Our shop is just one of many small workshops in this lane. It’s a small space, packed with lathes and other metalworking machinery. We’ve been here for a long time, so the walls are stained with years of grease and shop smoke. It’s a family-run kind of thing, mostly. My brother and a few of my cousins help out with the daily tasks. We don’t have much in the way of a front office or a desk for visitors. If you want to talk to us about a job, you just come to the edge of the shop floor and shout over the noise of the machines. It’s loud and it’s messy, but we like the work we do. There’s always something new to fix or a specific part that needs to be made from scratch. We get a lot of locals coming in with things they need repaired. We usually have tea together in the late afternoon when the tea seller comes around with his kettle. It’s just how things are done here in the lane. No big meetings, just hard work.