Venus Auto India

Venus Auto India is located at 1557/29 on Hari Singh Nalwa Street. The name sounds a bit grander than the shop actually looks, since it’s mostly just a narrow space filled with metal shelves. We spend the day climbing ladders to reach the top rows where the older stuff is kept. Karol Bagh is always moving and we are right in the thick of it. The shop floor is concrete and has some oil stains that will never come out. We have a small fan that wobbles on the desk, trying its best to keep us cool. Dealing with the address 1557/29 means explaining to people which side of the street we are on since the numbers skip around. It’s a lot of manual labor, carrying crates and opening wooden boxes with a crowbar. Sometimes the rain comes in through the front door if we don't pull the awning down fast enough. We don't really have a lobby or a place for people to wait, so they just stand on the sidewalk. Our days are filled with the sound of the market and the smell of exhaust fumes from the street. It’s a plain, honest kind of life where we just do our work and go home when the sun sets. We don’t try to be anything other than a local shop in a very busy neighborhood.