Amrutlal Bhurabhai & Company

Our company, Amrutlal Bhurabhai & Company, has been a part of the Loni New Sabji Mandi for quite a long time. You can find us on Karaval Nagar Road in the Lal Bag area. Like most businesses in the vegetable market, our day starts while most people are still sleeping. The noise of the trucks and the shouting of the traders is our daily background. We handle wholesale goods, mostly vegetables and produce that come in from the nearby farms. The office is just a small room at the back of the warehouse space. It’s filled with old ledgers and some wooden chairs that have seen better days. We don't see the need for a modern office when most of our work happens out on the floor or near the loading bays. It’s a dusty place, and the floors are always a bit stained from the produce, but that’s just how a mandi works. We’ve been doing this for generations, so the routines are second nature to us by now. We know the farmers who bring their stuff to us, and we know the small shopkeepers who buy from us to sell in their own neighborhoods. It’s a big cycle that we’re just a small part of. We don't make big promises. We just show up every day, do the counting, do the weighing, and make sure the goods get where they need to go. If the truck is late, we just sit on the platform and talk about the news or the cricket scores. There's a sense of patience you have to have when you work in a place like this. Things don't always happen on time, but they happen eventually. We aren't trying to be the biggest name in Lal Bag. We just want to be known as a place where you can get your business done without any fuss. It’s a simple philosophy, if you can even call it that. We just call it working.