Kotakonda Valleswary

Our shop is located at 7-1/2 on the Suncity Main Road, right in the middle of everything in Hyder Shah Kote. If you look across the street, you’ll see the Andhra Bank, which makes it easy for people to explain where we are. It gets pretty loud with all the traffic going by throughout the day. We’ve been running this place ourselves for a good amount of time. Every morning we roll up the shutters and start setting things up. It isn't a glamorous job, but it’s what we do. We see a lot of the same faces every week, people heading to work or coming back home. The area has changed a lot since we first arrived, with more buildings going up all the time. Sometimes it feels like there isn't enough space for everyone, but we manage. We don’t go in for fancy talk or trying to act bigger than we are. We just stay behind the counter and help whoever walks in. Sometimes the weather is too hot and we just sit under the fan waiting for the afternoon to pass. It’s a regular life. We don’t have a lot of employees, just a couple of us making sure everything is in its place. We keep our records in old books and try to stay organized as much as possible. It is just a local business trying to stay steady.