Prakash Fire Works

At A-1/197 in Kondli New, you will find Prakash Fire Works. It is a sturdy building because of what we keep inside. Most of the year it is actually quite quiet around here. We spend a lot of time checking the inventory and making sure everything is kept dry. When the festival season starts, the whole place changes. People start showing up in groups and we have to bring out the big boxes from the storage area. It gets very dusty with all the cardboard moving around. We don't have much decoration on the walls because there is no space for it. The shelves are filled with different kinds of crackers and sparklers. We have a heavy metal door that we lock up tight every evening. Sometimes the neighbors come by to talk about the weather or the news. We drink a lot of tea while we wait for deliveries to arrive. It is a family thing mostly, so we all know how the shop works. We don't use any fancy computers, just a notebook to write down what goes out. The air smells a bit like sulfur and paper most days. It is just a plain workspace where we do our business. We’ve seen the neighborhood change over the years, but the shop stays pretty much the same. We just keep doing what we do every year.