M/S Ashok Kumar Gupta

If you walk down Station Road in Durga Nagar, you’ll find us at 13/1. This is M/S Ashok Kumar Gupta. It's a modest place. We don't have a big fancy sign or anything that looks too modern. My family and I have been working here for quite a while. The shop is right where the street gets narrow and the people from the station are always walking past. It's a lot of noise and dust, but we like being in the middle of it. We sell what we have in stock and we try to keep things organized, even if it doesn't always look like it. There are days when the inventory piles up and we have to move boxes around just to find a chair. We don't use any complicated software to run the place. We mostly use ledgers and keep track of things by hand. It’s just the way we learned to do it. Customers come in, we talk for a bit, and we settle the business. There’s no pressure here. We don't have any big slogans or goals other than keeping the doors open every morning. Sometimes the power goes out and we just sit outside on the bench until it comes back. It’s a very local way of doing things. We know most of the neighbors and they know where to find us if they need anything.