New Prabhadevi Sweet Mart

The shutters go up early at New Prabhadevi Sweet Mart. We are located at 156 New Prabhadevi Road 3, and you can usually tell we’re open by the crates of milk sitting out front. It’s a small shop, really. We have these glass counters that we wipe down every hour because of the fingerprints. Inside those counters, there are rows of different sweets, some yellow, some white, and some decorated with that silver foil. It gets crowded in the mornings when people are heading to work and want to pick up a small box of something. The street outside is always moving with people going to the temple or the local shops. We spend a lot of time in the back area where the big pots are. It gets hot back there, especially in the summer. We don’t have much room for people to sit, so most just stand at the counter, point at what they want, and wait for us to wrap it up in paper. The scales we use are old but they still work fine. Sometimes we run out of the popular stuff by the afternoon, and then the shelves look a bit empty until the next batch is ready. My hands usually smell like cardamom or sugar by the time I go home. It’s just a regular sweet shop in the heart of Prabhadevi, doing the same things every day for the people who live nearby and need a quick treat.