Amman Exports

Operating out of B5-shantikunj on Gopalakrishna Road in T. Nagar is quite an experience. If you know T. Nagar, you know how packed and loud it gets every single day. Every morning is a bit of a struggle just to get through the crowds of shoppers and find a place for the delivery vans to park. Our office in Shantikunj isn’t very large, but we’ve managed to fit everything we need into the small rooms. It’s a lot of boxes stacked against the walls and folders piled on every flat surface we can find. We spend a lot of time on the small balcony just to get a breather from the indoor heat. The noise from the street never really stops, so we’ve learned to talk over the constant honking and the shouting of the vendors outside. We do our own packing mostly, sitting on the floor when we run out of table space. It’s a very hands-on kind of business. We don't have a corporate office feel at all; it’s more like a busy workshop where everyone is always moving. Sometimes the lift in the building acts up, and we have to carry everything down the stairs, which is a real chore when the boxes are heavy. We’ve been here for a long while and the people in the other units are like family to us now. We share snacks and complain about the traffic together. It’s just a regular life for us in the middle of all this city chaos.