Parkash Cotton Industries

If you find yourself in Jammu, specifically in Raghunath Bazaar, you’ll see the Liberty Building standing there. We are located on the 3rd floor. Parkash Cotton Industries has been operating out of this spot for a long time. There is something about the smell of raw cotton that just stays with you after a while. It’s a busy bazaar downstairs, full of people and noise, but once you get up to our floor, it’s a bit different. We have piles of samples and stacks of registers that go back years. The floors are a bit worn down from people moving around so much. We aren't really interested in having a shiny office that looks like a bank. It’s a place of work. We handle the cotton side of things, making sure the quality is what it needs to be before it goes anywhere else. Sometimes the power goes out and we just sit there for a minute, waiting for the generator or just taking a breath. It’s part of the life here in Jammu. My uncle used to say that the bazaar never sleeps, and he was mostly right. We see the same faces every day, which is nice. It feels like a community. We just keep doing what we know how to do, which is dealing with cotton and making sure the business keeps ticking along like it always has. There's plenty of work to keep us occupied from morning until evening.