Ramkumar Rice Co.

Ramkumar Rice Co. is sitting over in Kphb Colony in the Kukatpally area. Our address is 3-896-745-62, and we have been in this neighborhood for a while now. The shop is basically one large room filled with different kinds of rice in open bins and closed sacks. You can see the dust motes dancing in the sunlight that comes through the high windows in the afternoon. We have a heavy iron scale that we use to weigh everything out, and it makes a loud clunking sound every time we adjust the weights. The walls used to be a brighter color, but they have faded over the years from the sun and the general wear of the shop. We don't really bother with much fancy lighting, so it gets a bit dim in the back corners where we store the extra stock. Most of our regulars live just a few streets away, so we end up chatting about the weather or the local news while we pack their orders. It feels a bit like a community hub sometimes, even if we are just selling grain. We keep a small notebook where we write down what we need to order for the next week. It’s a lot of manual labor, hauling the sacks and sweeping the floor at the end of every day. We usually close up once the streetlights come on and the traffic starts to die down a little bit to go home.