S. K. Umbrella Manufacturing Co.

We are located at No. 419/f on the ground floor of the Joshiwade building, in Room No. 1. It is right on Kalbadevi Road. If you know this part of town, you know how packed and busy it gets every day. We make umbrellas here. The entire space is filled with rolls of fabric, metal ribs, and different types of handles. There is not much room left to walk around once we start the work for the day. It gets a bit noisy when the machines are running, but we have gotten used to it. We have been putting umbrellas together for a lot of years. You learn how to handle the materials properly after doing it for so long. Sometimes the thread gets tangled up or one of the machines gets stuck, and we have to stop everything to fix it. It is a very manual process from start to finish. We do not have a big factory, just this one room where we do all the assembly. During the monsoon season, we are always extra busy. Everyone is rushing to get their orders finished. We do not do any fancy marketing or advertising. People usually hear about us from someone else who bought an umbrella here. We just sit at our work stations and get through the pile. It is a basic life, making something that people really need when it starts raining. We don't try to be anything we're not.