Amrutham Spinknits

Out here in Billchi Village, things are a bit different than the city. We are on the road to Karamadai. The space is bigger, which is good for the machines. We do spinning and knitting here. It’s a noisy environment because the machines are always running. You get used to the rhythm of it after a while. The air smells like raw cotton and machine oil. Most of our workers live nearby in the village. We have to watch the weather because when it rains heavy, the road gets muddy. We spend a lot of time checking the yarn strength and making sure the knit is even. It's not a glamorous job. We wear dusty clothes and spend a lot of time on our feet on the concrete floor. Sometimes a part breaks and we have to wait for someone to come from the city to fix it. We have a small office area, but mostly we are out where the work happens. The Mtp Road has a lot of trucks passing by. We load our goods onto them and they head off to wherever they are going. We don't have a website or anything like that. We just do the work and people find us. It’s a steady life. We try to keep the machines hummed up and the production moving every single day without too much trouble from the power grid. It’s just us out here on the road, doing the work that needs doing until the evening comes.