Shri Charbhuja Milk Dairy

Shri Charbhuja Milk Dairy is located right in the shopping centre at Goverdhan Pura. Life here starts very early in the morning, long before the sun is even up. That is when the milk cans arrive and we have to start getting everything ready for the neighborhood. The shop has big refrigerators that hum all day and night to keep the milk and dahi cold. You can usually smell the fresh paneer being made in the back. Customers start showing up at six in the morning with their own steel containers. We know most of them by their faces and how much milk they take every day. The floor is made of white tiles that we have to wash down constantly because of the spills. It gets crowded in the little space during the morning rush. Sometimes we run out of buffalo milk early and have to tell the latecomers to wait for the next delivery. There are no fancy signs or advertisements here, just the daily price written on a small chalkboard near the entrance. People also come in for a quick packet of buttermilk or a cup of curd when the weather gets hot in Kota. It is a simple routine that repeats every single day without much change. We just keep the milk cold and the counters clean for the people who live around the shopping centre. We usually close up for a few hours in the afternoon when it is quiet.