Kalakriti Marble Art

You can find us right by the Shri Ram Filling Station on the Delhi Road. We are out in Kukas, which is quite a stretch from the main city, so it stays pretty dusty around here with all the trucks passing by on N.H. Road No. 11. The marble work makes a lot of noise, so don’t expect a quiet visit. We have slabs leaning against the walls and small stone pieces scattered across the floor. It is a bit of a mess most days, but that is just the nature of working with stone. We’ve got a couple of guys who are always covered in white powder from the grinders. It’s heavy work, moving those blocks around, and we usually have to use the old crane when something big comes in. The sun hits the front of the shop pretty hard in the afternoon, making the marble hot to the touch. We don’t have a fancy showroom or anything like that. People usually just pull over because they saw the sign or they needed to get petrol next door. We talk to the truck drivers and the locals who are building houses nearby. It is a straightforward business where we just cut and polish what’s needed. Sometimes the power goes out, and everything stops, so we just sit outside and watch the traffic until it comes back on. That’s just life on the highway. We've been at this spot for years and the stone keeps coming. We keep the machines running whenever we have an order to finish.