Sour Tamarind Enterprise

If you take a walk down Sital Sarkar Lane, you will eventually find us at number 9. Sour Tamarind Enterprise is tucked away in this quiet little lane. It is not the easiest place for a stranger to find. The lane is quite narrow, so you usually have to come on foot or use a small scooter to get through. We have been working with tamarind for a long time now. The sharp, tangy smell of it is everywhere inside our building. It is a scent that tends to stay in your clothes even after you go home, but we don't mind it. To us, it just smells like a day of hard work. We spend most of our hours sorting and packing the product. It is all manual labor. We sit on low wooden stools and go through the batches by hand to make sure everything is right. The walls are painted a simple yellow and we have a couple of old calendars hanging up. We don't have any fancy machinery, just some basic scales and manual sealing tools. My sister and her husband work right alongside me every day. We always stop to have our tea together at four o’clock. It is a simple and quiet life on Sital Sarkar Lane. We don't get many people just walking in, but our regular buyers know exactly where we are. We just focus on our work and getting the product ready for the markets. It is an honest way to make a living and we are content with that.