Aakash Kirana & General Store

Aakash Kirana & General Store is sitting right on Kota Road. It is one of those places where the road is always busy with trucks and cars going past. We see a lot of dust because of all the traffic, but we just keep the shop open and the items stocked. We sell the usual things you would expect from a kirana store, like bags of rice, different dals, cooking oil, and biscuits. A lot of our customers are people who are traveling along the road or families living in the nearby clusters. We have a simple cement floor and a few benches where people sometimes sit for a minute while we pack their goods. Rajasthan is a dry place, so we sell a lot of water bottles and cold soda during the daytime. The sun hits the front of the shop pretty hard in the afternoon, so we pull down the shade a little bit. We don't have any fancy staff, it is just us managing the counter and the stock. Sometimes the delivery trucks are late because of the highway traffic, and we have to tell people to come back later for their specific items. It is a very practical business. We don't talk much about goals or visions; we just make sure that when someone stops their bike or car, we have what they are looking for. It is just a humble shop on a busy road trying to serve the travelers and locals.