Radha Spices & Pickles

You can find us at 4-69-84 on Pragathi Nagar Road in Kukatpally. We are pretty close to Sigma Plaza, which is a good landmark if you are trying to find the place for the first time. Radha Spices & Pickles is a small operation. It is basically just a workspace where we mix the spices and get the pickles into jars. It is a very manual process. We do not have those huge automated machines you see on television. We still do things the way we learned from our parents. The kitchen area gets really hot, especially when we are roasting the chili peppers for a new batch. The smell of vinegar and spices is always there, even in our clothes when we go home. It is a family business, so my kids are often around after school finishes. We sell to the local shops and some people who just walk in off the street to see what we have. We do not have a marketing budget or any fancy packaging with shiny labels. We just use plain jars and clear bags. The labels are sometimes a bit crooked because we put them on by hand. People seem to like what we make, and that is enough for us. The traffic on Pragathi Nagar Road is usually a mess in the evenings, so we try to get our deliveries out early in the morning. It is a lot of hard work.