Sri Venkateshwara Kirana Store

Our store is situated at 1-4-881/5 in Bakaram, which is a busy little pocket of Musheerabad here in Hyderabad. It is a typical corner shop where we keep all the pulses, rice, and oils you would expect. The building is a bit older, and sometimes the fans do not work as well as they should in the Hyderabad heat, but we manage. I have been sitting in this shop for years, watching the kids in the neighborhood grow up and start coming in for their own households. We get our stock from the main markets early in the week. It is a lot of heavy lifting, moving sacks of grain around. The street outside can get quite jammed with bikes and rickshaws, especially in the evenings. We do not do any flashy advertising or anything like that. People just know where we are. If you are walking through Bakaram, you will see our jars of sweets on the front counter. Sometimes I forget to update the prices on the little chalkboards, but the customers are patient with me. We close up around nine most nights, unless someone knocks late for an emergency packet of salt. It is just a normal way to earn a living, serving the people who live in these narrow lanes. Nothing more to it than that, really. Just keeping the shelves full and the accounts somewhat straight.