Sidhi Mobile

Our shop, Sidhi Mobile, is tucked away in the Pratap Garh Akbari Market. This is an old part of town and the market has been here for a very long time, long before we arrived. The lanes are narrow and you can’t really bring a car down here, so everyone walks or uses a bicycle. We spend our days surrounded by other vendors selling colorful clothes and various household items. It’s a very social place where everyone talks to their neighbors over the shop counters. We mostly sell basic mobile phones and do a lot of small repairs for the local people who live nearby. If a keypad isn't working or a speaker sounds a bit muffled, they bring it to us to see if we can help. We have a lot of plastic bins filled with spare parts and old phone covers that have faded a bit in the sun. The lighting in the shop isn't the best but we have a small desk lamp for the more delicate work. It gets quite crowded in the evenings when everyone comes out to do their daily food shopping. We often have people just standing outside the shop entrance chatting while we work on a phone. It feels like a small community here and we know almost everyone who passes by our door. It’s not a big corporate store, just a regular market shop where we try to help with what we can.