Munimji & Sons- Pushpa Masale

We are located at A-1 in Chandpole Bazar, which is a place filled with different smells and sounds every morning. Munimji & Sons- Pushpa Masale has been a part of this market for a long time. If you walk down the street, you can usually smell the spices before you even see the shop. We spend a lot of our time grinding things and packing them up into bags for the local families and other shops. It is dusty work and your clothes always end up smelling like turmeric or chili by the end of the shift. The shop isn't very large, so we have to stack things high up on the wooden shelves to make room for everything. My father used to say that the market never sleeps, and it feels true when we open up early in the morning. We don't use fancy machines for everything; a lot of it is still done by hand because that is just how we learned to do it. Customers come in and ask for small amounts or big sacks depending on what they are cooking at home. We try to keep things simple and just focus on the quality of the seeds and powders we handle. It is a busy life but it feels good to be part of the community here in the bazaar. We know most of our neighbors by name and they know us. It is a simple way of living.