Budhi Prakash Mithlash Kumar Agarwal

Our place is out in Salriya Pali in Chhattisgarh. It’s right near Bharti Hospital, which is the big landmark everyone uses to find us. If you get to the hospital, you are basically there. We have been in this part of Salriya for a good while. The road out here isn't always the smoothest, especially after a heavy rain, so it can be a bit of a bumpy ride to get to the door. We are a local business, run by the family, and we don't have a big fancy office. It’s more of a practical space where we do our daily work. There is a small porch out front where people sometimes sit and talk if the weather is nice. Inside, it is mostly shelves and desks. We don't have a lot of decorations on the walls, just the stuff we need to get through the day. The area is fairly quiet, mostly just the sound of the birds and the occasional truck passing by on the way to the next village. We know most of the people who come by, and if we don't, we usually know their cousins or someone they work with. It is that kind of place. We don't use computers for everything; sometimes we still like to write things down in the big ledgers. It’s just how we have always done things here in Pali.