Didi General Stores

We sit right here at Garha Bazar Chowraha in Jabalpur. It gets quite busy outside our door most days because of the traffic moving through the city. Didi General Stores is just a small place packed with all sorts of things people need when they are passing by or heading home. You will see us early in the morning opening up the shutters and dusting off the counters. It’s a bit cramped inside sometimes because we try to keep a lot of items on the shelves for the neighborhood families. People come in for a single pen or maybe some soap and we just get it for them. There is no big sign or anything flashy here. The floor is a bit old and the ceiling fan makes a lot of noise during the summer months. We have been in Garha for a long while now. Usually, it is just one of us behind the counter listening to the radio or talking to whoever walks in. It’s not a fancy supermarket. We just have what we have on the racks. Sometimes the supply truck is late and we have to tell people to come back tomorrow for their things. That is just how it goes here in Jabalpur. We know most of the faces that walk through the door. It’s a simple routine that repeats every single day. We close up when it gets dark and the market finally starts to quiet down a bit for the night.