Shiv Shankar Stationers

You can find us at shop 78 in the Madangir Village Market area near Khanpur. The shop is pretty much packed from floor to ceiling with stacks of notebooks, registers, and boxes of pens. It’s a bit of a squeeze to get around sometimes. When the school season starts, it gets really hectic here. Parents come in with long lists of books and stationery their kids need. We try to keep track of everything, but sometimes a specific blue pen or a certain type of folder is hard to find in the piles. We also have things like chart papers and glue for school projects. It’s mostly just us behind the counter, grabbing things for customers. The market is always noisy, and we’re right in the middle of it. Sometimes the shelves get a bit messy because people are always looking through things. We don't have any fancy displays. It is just a regular stationery shop where you get your basic supplies. We spend a lot of time counting out pencils or making sure we have enough photocopier paper. It’s a steady kind of work. We know a lot of the local students who come in before their exams looking for extra pens. It’s been this way for a long time now. We try to stock the latest types of stickers and coloring sets too because the younger kids always ask for those. Sometimes the shop feels too small for all the inventory we have.