Siva Kaartikeya Kirana & General Store

We are over here in Kodandaram Nagar, right at the 15-145/27 spot in Saroor Nagar. It gets quite busy around here in the mornings when people are heading out for work or taking their kids to school. This store, Siva Kaartikeya Kirana & General Store, has been around for a while now and I’ve spent most of my days behind this counter. I usually spend my time arranging the tea packets on the shelves or checking which bags of rice are running low. The Hyderabad heat gets a bit much in the afternoons, so the ceiling fan is always running, even if it makes a bit of a clicking noise. We have all the usual stuff like dal, oil, and those small things you always forget to buy at the big market. Sometimes the delivery trucks block the narrow part of the road outside, which makes the neighbors a bit annoyed, but we manage to get things moved quickly. My cousin says I should put up a bigger sign but the one we have works just fine for now. It’s just me and sometimes a boy who helps out during the rush hour in the evenings. Saroor Nagar is a nice area, mostly families who have lived here for years and know me by name. I don't have any fancy way of talking about what we do. We just open up early, sweep the front step, and stay until the street lights come on. It is a simple life running a kirana shop.