Gupta Bistar Bhandar

If you come down to Najafgarh Laxmi Garden, you’ll find us at A-9. Gupta Bistar Bhandar is mostly filled with stacks of mattresses, quilts, and pillows. It’s a very soft place to work, but it gets very dusty with all the cotton flying around. We spend a lot of time stuffing covers and sewing things up by hand or with the old machines we have in the back. During the wedding season, it gets incredibly busy and the whole shop is a mess of bright fabrics and heavy bedding sets. We don’t have a fancy showroom. Everything is just piled up high, and you have to climb over things sometimes to see what we have. My father started this, and I just kept it going. We know most of the families around here. They come to us because we’ve been here for years, not because we have some big sales pitch. When it’s winter, everyone wants the heavy rajais, and when it’s summer, we switch to lighter stuff. It’s a seasonal cycle that we’ve gotten used to. The shop isn't air-conditioned, so we keep the doors open and watch the street life in Laxmi Garden while we work. It’s a simple way to make a living, and we don't feel the need to make it more complicated than it is. We just make sure the beds are comfortable for whoever buys them.