Raju Engineering Works

Kadayiruppu is a quiet enough place, but our workshop in Kolenchery stays loud. Raju Engineering Works is mostly me and a couple of others doing welding and repairs. We’ve got machines for turning metal and fixing parts that people bring in from the farms or local shops. It’s a lot of sparks and grease. My hands are never really clean, even after scrubbing. We’ve been in this spot for a long time now. People know they can bring their broken tools or iron gates here and we’ll see what we can do. We don’t promise miracles. If something is truly broken, we say so. But usually, we can patch it up. The workshop is a bit cluttered with scrap metal and old projects we never finished. It’s just how an engineering shop ends up looking after a few years. We don’t have a website or anything like that. Word of mouth works fine for us in Kolenchery. Sometimes we work late into the night if a farmer needs his equipment ready for the morning. It’s tiring but it’s what we do. The rain sounds loud on the tin roof during the monsoon. We just keep the lights on and keep working. It isn't a big business, just a local shop where we use our hands to fix things that are falling apart for our neighbors.