Mangal Athavale Art Jewellery

Our shop is tucked away in Gokul Arcade on the first floor. We are in the A Wing, specifically room 105-B. Vile Parle East is a pretty busy part of Mumbai, and Swami Nityanand Marg always has people walking around or traffic humming. We sell art jewellery here. It’s not one of those massive, fancy showrooms with guards at the door. It is just a small, practical place where we keep our collections. Most of the people who come in are locals from around the neighborhood or folks who heard about us from a friend. The arcade itself is an older building. Sometimes the lift works fine and other times it is just easier to take the stairs to get to the first floor. We spend our days sorting through pieces and talking to customers about what they like. It’s a bit cramped when we get a few people in at once, but we make it work. We’ve been at this address for a while now. It feels like home. There is a tea stall nearby that we go to when things are quiet. We don't really do much in the way of big marketing or shiny ads. We just open up the shop and do our thing. It’s a simple way to run a business. Having the shop in Vile Parle is good because it’s a central spot for many of our regulars. Anyway, that is pretty much what our daily life looks like here.