Ajay Sarees Privaye Ltd.

You’ll find us on the first floor of the Narottamwadi Da Building. It’s right there at 381 Kalbadevi. If you know the area, you know how packed and loud it gets every day. There’s always someone hauling a wooden cart or shouting about something in the narrow street below. Up here at Ajay Sarees Privaye Ltd., it’s a bit different, but still plenty busy. We have stacks of sarees everywhere you look. It’s hard to keep them all perfectly neat when people are looking through them and unfolding them all day long. We try our best to keep the dust off the silk and cotton. The building is quite old, you can tell by the walls and the way the floor creaks in certain spots. We spend our days unfolding and then carefully folding fabric back up. It’s a lot of colors and patterns all blurred together by the time our shift ends. Kalbadevi has a certain energy that you just don't find anywhere else in the city. It’s loud and a bit messy, but it’s where we belong. We don't have fancy window displays or those bright lights you see in the big expensive showrooms. We just have our stock and a simple place for people to sit down. It’s straightforward work. We drink a lot of tea to keep going through the afternoon rush. It’s just a regular day for us here, sitting among the piles of fabric and waiting for the sun to go down.