Pawan General Store

The shop is at number 43 on Faizabad Road. We’ve been here in Babu Ganj for a while now. It’s right near IT Crossing, so there’s always people moving about. Ram Deen Market gets pretty busy in the evenings when everyone is coming home from work. I open up early and start by cleaning the front area. The dust from the road is a bit much sometimes, but that’s just how it is. We keep mostly everything people need for their houses. It’s a small place but we try to fit a lot on the shelves. Sometimes the trucks for deliveries block the road a bit, which can be a mess. Lucknow heat in the summer makes it hard to stay inside all day, so I keep the fan running. Most of the people who come in live right around here. They know where we are. It’s just a regular store. Nothing fancy about it. We see the same faces every day, people stopping by for a quick thing on their way to work or back home. It gets noisy with all the traffic from Faizabad Road right outside. You just get used to it after a few years. Sometimes we chat with the neighbors while waiting for customers. It's a simple life running a shop in Lucknow. We keep our stock full and just keep going day by day. Shop 43 is easy to spot once you get to the market area.