Pritam Kirana & General Store

If you live around Bani Park, you probably know the street we are on in Sindhi Colony 1. Pritam Kirana & General Store is a small place, packed with shelves from the floor to the ceiling. We have bags of flour, lentils, and all the usual stuff people need for their kitchens. It gets a bit cramped when the morning delivery trucks arrive and we have to stack boxes in the aisles. One or two of us stay behind the counter, weighing out grains or looking for a specific brand of soap a customer wants. The shop has been at Sindhi Colony 1 for quite some time now, and we know most of the people who walk through the door by name. Checking the dates on packages takes up a lot of time, and keeping the place tidy is hard when there's so much stock. Sometimes the power goes out, so we have to use a flashlight to find what people need. It is a basic neighborhood shop. We open up early in the morning when the air is still cool and stay open until most people have finished their dinner. Doing anything special isn't really our thing; we just keep the shelves full of the things the families nearby use every day. It’s just a regular part of the neighborhood life here in Bani Park, and we don't think about it much more than that.