Kavitha Bindla

My business is run out of my home at H No 1-6-142 in Bharath Nagar. This is in the Musheerabad area of Secunderabad, which is a very crowded and busy neighborhood. My name is Kavitha Bindla and I have been doing this work for quite a few years now. It is a small-scale operation, mostly focused on tailoring and fixing clothes for the people who live nearby. I have my sewing machine set up in a corner of the house where the light is good. It is not a fancy boutique, just a place where I get my work done. People from the surrounding streets bring their fabrics and we talk about what they want me to make. I have threads and needles and scraps of cloth all over the place, but I know where everything is kept. The lanes outside are always noisy with children playing and vendors shouting, but I just focus on my sewing. I don't have any social media or a website to show off my work. My customers find me through word of mouth, and I have many regulars who have been coming to me for a long time. Sometimes I have to work late into the night to finish an order for a festival. It is a simple and honest way to earn a living while staying at home with my family.