Cotton India

Cotton India is located at No. 658-A in Faithfullganj, which is right near the Deen Mohammad Saudagar Masjid. To find us, you have to go down Dr. Majeed Wali Gali, near the Deen Mohammad Umrao Khera Magarwara area in Unnao. It is a bit of a maze back here in these narrow lanes. Our place is usually filled with bales of cotton and the smell of raw fiber. It is a very old-school way of working. We don't have fancy air conditioning or modern office furniture. We mostly have wooden stools and a lot of floor space for sorting through the cotton. The dust from the cotton gets on everything, including our hair and clothes. We work with a lot of local people and the street outside is always busy with people going to the masjid or moving goods on small carts. It is a tight-knit community where everyone knows who we are. We start our day very early when it is still a bit cool outside. We handle the cotton, weigh it, and get it ready for wherever it needs to go next. There is a lot of manual labor involved, and we are usually pretty tired by the time we lock the gate in Uttar Pradesh. It is just a local business doing what has been done in this area for a long time. We do not try to be anything we are not. We just keep working.