Jaydhan Masale Private Limited

Our place is tucked away in Malekar Wadi. If you're walking down P L Lokhande Marg in Chembur, you might miss us if you aren't looking. We are at MZ 10. The air inside always smells like turmeric and red chili powder. It’s a strong scent that stays on your clothes long after you leave. We’ve been here in Mumbai for a while now, just doing our thing with spices. It’s a lot of grinding and weighing. The machines make a bit of a racket, so talking over them is hard sometimes. We get the raw spices in big sacks and then we spend the day processing them. It isn't a high-tech operation. It’s just us and the spice grinders. The floor usually has a fine dust of masala on it by the end of the shift. We clean up every night, but it starts all over again the next morning. My family has been around this area for years. Chembur has changed a lot, but this little corner of Malekar Wadi stays pretty much the same. We don’t have a big marketing team. It’s mostly just word of mouth around the locality. People know where to find us when they need their masalas for cooking. It gets hot in the summer, especially with the machines running, but we just keep the doors open and keep working. Sometimes we have to shout to be heard over the noise of the street outside. It's just a busy, dusty, spicy kind of life we have here.