RAMBHAROSE BHANDAR

Our shop is number 3-3-813 in Kachiguda. We are in that little lane right beside the Reliance Digital store. If you are looking for the Ganesh temple, we are quite close to that as well. It is a very busy part of Hyderabad. The street is always narrow and full of people moving around. We have been here for a while and the shop is filled with all sorts of things stacked up on the shelves. It is not the most organized looking place but we know exactly where everything is kept. Most days are spent talking to customers and hauling boxes around. The heat in Hyderabad can be a lot, so we have a small old fan that struggles to keep us cool. People come in from the heat and usually look a bit worn out. We sell all kinds of bits and pieces that people need for their homes. It is a lot of manual work, checking the stock and writing things down in a ledger. We don't use a computer for much of it. It is better to just do it by hand. Sometimes we sit outside on a stool when it is quiet and watch the traffic go by the Reliance store. Kachiguda never really stops, so there is always someone popping in at the last minute before we close up. We just keep going until the lights on the street come on and it is finally time to pull the shutters down.