Sunil Upadhyay

Started out here in Kharida quite a few years back. It’s a quiet spot in Paschim Midnapur, not too far from Kharagpur, but it feels different once you’re off the main roads. I run things under my own name, Sunil Upadhyay. We mostly handle local stuff that people around here need for their projects. It is a small setup, just me and a couple of others helping out most days. The weather can be a bit of a pain during the monsoon because the roads in this part of West Bengal get pretty muddy and slow things down, but we manage. People know where to find us in the village. It isn’t a fancy office with big glass windows or anything like that. Just a practical place where we keep our stock and talk to whoever drops by. I’ve lived around here most of my life so I know the layout well. Sometimes it gets busy, other times we just sit and wait for the next load to arrive from the station. We don’t really do much advertising because everyone just knows us by word of mouth. It works better that way in a place like this. We just try to get the work done without making a big fuss about it. If someone needs something specific, they usually just give me a call or walk in through the gate. It’s a simple way to run a business but it keeps us going. Most of the time we're just busy with the daily tasks of moving things around and checking our local inventory.