Aruna Hair Saloon

Aruna Hair Saloon has been sitting here on Azampura Main Road for a good while. We are right at Shop No 16-7-424/2, not too far from the Muslim Hospital. You can usually see the hospital visitors walking past our window all day long. It is a simple place with a few chairs and mirrors that have seen better days. We keep the scissors and combs in jars on the counter. The walls are painted a light blue, though the color has faded a bit near the door where the sun hits it every afternoon. Usually, the morning starts slow with just one or two older men coming in for a shave before the heat gets too bad. By the evening, the place fills up with younger guys from the neighborhood. We have a small television in the corner, but the remote doesn't work right, so we just leave it on whatever channel was on last. There is always a pile of newspapers on the bench for people who are waiting. Sometimes the traffic on Azampura Main Road gets so loud we have to shout a little to be heard over the horns. We don't do anything fancy here, just basic cuts and shaves for the people who live nearby. It’s a steady life, and we like the people who stop in to chat while they get their hair trimmed. It is just how things are.