Lokesh Bartan Bhandar

We’ve been here at Lokesh Bartan Bhandar for quite a few years now. The shop is located in Kartarpura Hatwara, right near Mehanat Nagar. If you know the Nale Wali Dargah, we are just a short walk from there. Most people in the neighborhood know us because we’ve been selling steel pots and pans for a long time. It’s a small place, often crowded with boxes of spoons, tiffins, and pressure cookers. Sometimes it gets a bit dusty because of the road work outside, but we try to keep things organized. My brother and I manage the counter. We don’t have fancy displays or anything like that. People just come in, ask for a specific size of kadhai or a water bottle, and we find it for them. Sometimes they want to exchange old brass items for new steel ones, and we do that too. It’s a busy spot especially during festival times when everyone wants new dishes for their kitchen. We open early in the morning and stay until late evening. The area stays lively because of the nearby dargah. We don't really do any big advertising. Word of mouth works for us. Neighbors tell their relatives about our shop. It is just a regular local business where we know most of our customers by face. We handle the inventory ourselves and deal with the suppliers who come from the main city market. It's a lot of manual work lifting heavy stacks of plates, but that is just how the day goes here.