Mahadev General Store

Mahadev General Store is located on the main Station Road in Dhanbad. This part of town is always moving, mostly because of the coal industry and the trains. We see a lot of workers and commuters every single day. The store is filled with all the small things that people find themselves needing at the last minute. We’ve got everything from batteries to notebooks and different kinds of snacks. It’s a bit of a squeeze inside when more than four people are trying to look at things at the same time. We don't have a big staff, just us behind the counter making sure everything goes okay. The dust in Dhanbad is quite something, so we spend a lot of our time wiping down the packets and jars. It’s a simple routine. We start early in the morning before the sun gets too hot and stay open until the station traffic starts to thin out. Some people come in just to ask for directions or to check the time, and that’s fine with us. We aren't running a supermarket; it’s just a local shop. Sometimes we get the inventory wrong and have too much of one thing and not enough of another, but we figure it out as we go. It’s a practical way to earn a living and we’ve been part of this street for a long time now. We just take it one day at a time here without much fuss.