Ambika Overseas

Our place, Ambika House, is situated on Model House Road over in Basti Sheikh. It’s an older part of the city, so the streets can be a bit tight, especially when the delivery vans are trying to turn the corners. Ambika Overseas has been based here for many years. The building itself is a bit of a landmark for us, and we’ve used every square inch of space inside. Downstairs is mostly for the packing and the heavy boxes, while the upper floors are where we handle the international side of things. It gets quite noisy during the day with the local market nearby and people shouting across the street. We don’t have any fancy signs or corporate branding, just the name on the front of the house. Most of our day is spent on the phone or checking through the inventory lists to make sure everything is where it should be. Sometimes the tea man comes around twice a day, and that’s when everyone takes a five-minute break to catch their breath. The walls are lined with old shelves and there's always a stack of bubble wrap sitting in the corner. We know most of the neighbors by name, and it feels more like a community than just an industrial zone. It’s a lot of manual work and keeping track of details, but we’ve been doing it this way for a long time and we are used to the pace.