Paras Engineering Works

If you head down to Hansraj Lane in Khetwadi, near Byculla 78, that is where you will find our workshop. It’s an old building and it shows its age, but it serves us well enough for the engineering jobs we do. We have some heavy machinery that takes up most of the space. It gets pretty loud when everything is running at once. We’ve been here for years, and the neighborhood hasn't changed much except for the shops next door. People bring us all kinds of things to fix or manufacture. Sometimes we have to scratch our heads a bit to figure out a solution for a tricky piece of equipment. It’s not the cleanest environment, with oil and metal shavings everywhere, but we don't mind it. We just wear our old clothes and get to work. Most of us live nearby so we walk to the shop every morning. We don’t have any big signs or fancy lights. Usually, the door is just open and you can hear the clanking from the street. We do a lot of manual labor and it can be quite exhausting by the time evening rolls around. We just close up the shutters and head home to do it all again the next day. It’s a steady life and we’ve made a lot of friends in the lane over the decades, sharing tea and stories while the machines hum in the background.