Varuni Chemicals P. Ltd.

Manjanakara Street is one of those places where everyone knows everyone’s business. We’ve been running Varuni Chemicals P. Ltd. from number 6/1 for a long time. It’s a tight space. We have bags of raw materials stacked against the walls, and sometimes you have to turn sideways just to get down the hallway. It’s not a fancy lab like you see on television. It’s just a place where we mix and package things. The desk is cluttered with old invoices and a telephone that’s seen better days. My uncle used to run the place, and not much has changed since then. We don't have a big sign outside, just a small one near the door. The street gets very crowded in the afternoons when the fruit sellers are out, so getting a truck in here is always a bit of a headache. We mostly just keep to ourselves and get the orders ready. Sometimes we run out of tape or the scales act up, and we have to fix them on the fly. It’s a lot of physical work, lifting and moving things around. We don't use any fancy software to keep track of stuff; we mostly just write it down in a big blue book. That’s just how we do things here. It's not a perfect system, but it's worked for us for twenty years and we keep going.