Pramanik Beauty & General Stores

We are located in the Akalgarh Market area of Borivali West, right inside Tulsi Baug Apartment at Shop No 3. It’s a busy part of the suburb, especially with Veer Savarkar Udyan nearby. Being in this spot, we see a lot of people walking past every day. We carry a mix of things, some beauty products like creams and hair oils, and then your usual general store items. It’s a bit of a tight squeeze inside because we try to stock as much as possible for our customers. Women from the neighborhood come in looking for specific bindis or safety pins, and then they remember they also need soap or a new comb. I started this place because I wanted something of my own in the local market. It’s not a big mall store, just a regular shop where we know your name. Mumbai life is always fast, but people still take a minute to talk about the weather or the local news while I bag their items. The shelves are packed with bottles and boxes. Sometimes the plastic bangles get mixed up with the pens, but we sort it out eventually. We stay open late because that’s when most people finish work and head home through the market. It’s a lot of standing all day, but I enjoy the bustle of the crowd. We don’t do any fancy advertising, people just find us because we’ve been here for a long time.