Kusum Tea Traders

Kusum Tea Traders is over at No. 146/1 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street. If you know the area, you know it is always busy and there is a lot of noise from the street. We have been trading tea from this spot for a good while. The shop smells like dry leaves and jute bags most of the time. We get different types of tea coming in from the gardens, and we spend a lot of time checking the quality before we sell it to anyone else. It is not a glamorous job. My father did this before me, and now I am the one sitting here at the desk. We have a few staff members who help with the heavy lifting and the weighing. Sometimes the traffic on Bipin Behari Ganguly Street makes it hard to get the deliveries in on time, but we manage. We are not trying to be the biggest sellers in the city; we just want to make sure the tea we have is decent and the price is fair for the folks who buy from us. Some days are slow and we just sit and talk about the weather, and other days it feels like everyone wants their order at the same time. We do not have a website or anything like that, we just rely on people knowing we are here. It is a traditional way of doing business and it works for us. It keeps us busy from morning until evening.