Premji Bhanji & Co.

You can find Premji Bhanji & Co. at 29 Keshavji Naik Road. This part of Masjid Bunder is always packed with people and carts moving things around. We’ve been at this address for quite a long time. The building is old and has that specific smell of wood and paper. Our P.B. No. is 5032, which we still use for some of the older mail that comes through. It’s a busy area, very narrow streets and lots of shouting from the loaders outside. We don't have much room for fancy displays. Most of the space is taken up by ledgers and boxes. We sit at wooden desks and handle the day’s trade. It’s a lot of writing and talking to people who have been doing business with us for years. The tea boy comes around twice a day, which is usually when we take a break. There’s always a stack of invoices that needs looking at. It gets dark early in these narrow lanes because the buildings are so close together. We don’t have a website or anything like that, just the shop and our phone. It’s a traditional way of working, I suppose. We know the neighbors and the local porters. When the monsoon hits, the water splashes into the doorway, but we just put up some boards to keep it out. It’s just how things are here on this street.