Tarakeshwar Hardware Stores

You can find us at 12, J N Tewari Road in Dum Dum. It’s a narrow street and can get very congested during the market hours. We’ve been running this hardware store for a long time, and the building shows its age a bit. We have drawers full of nails, bolts, and all sorts of metal fittings. Sometimes it takes a few minutes to find exactly what a customer is looking for because we have so much stuff crammed into the back rooms. It’s a local place. Most of the people who come in live just a few streets away. They come for a new lock or maybe some plumbing parts when a pipe starts leaking. The fan on the ceiling barely keeps the humidity away during the summer months. We usually have the radio playing in the background while we wait for the next person to walk in. It's a lot of manual work, lifting heavy bags of cement or moving stacks of plywood. Dum Dum is a busy area, so there is always noise from the traffic outside. We don't have a big staff, just family mostly. We know most of our customers by name. We just try to have the basics that everyone needs for their home repairs. It isn't a glamorous job, but it’s honest work and it keeps the community going. We stay open late most nights because that's when people finish their own jobs.