Vijay Telecom

Field Ganj in Ludhiana is a place where you really have to know your way around. Our shop, Vijay Telecom, is right in the middle of all that activity. Every morning, the first thing I do is pull up the metal shutter and hope the electricity is steady for the day. We have chargers and cables hanging everywhere. It’s mostly just people from the neighborhood coming in for small things. Maybe their charger cable snapped or they need a new screen protector because they dropped their phone on the pavement. The noise from the street never really stops, you just get used to it after a while. I have a small stool I sit on while I work on the devices. The light inside isn't great, so I use a desk lamp for the tiny screws. We keep a ledger for all the repairs, and it’s getting pretty thick now. Sometimes I recognize the customers by their phones before I remember their names. Field Ganj has a lot of competition, but we just stick to our corner and do what we can. It’s not a polished showroom with glass cases everywhere, just a practical shop where things get fixed. We drink a lot of tea while waiting for parts to arrive. It’s just regular work, nothing more and nothing less. Most days are long, but that is how it is when you run a small shop here in the city.