Solanki Plus Company

Solanki Plus Company is up on the first floor of the Big Bihari Baug building, specifically in Shop No. 14 B. It is right in the middle of the Bhuleshwar area, so you can probably imagine how the 3rd Bhoiwada lane looks on any given weekday afternoon. It is always crowded and very loud with all the carts and people moving through the narrow streets. The Swaminarayan Temple is quite close by, so we often use that as a landmark for people who have not visited our shop before. Our space is small and packed right up to the ceiling with all our stock. We have to use a wooden ladder for almost everything we need to reach. It is not the easiest place to move around in, but we know where every single box is kept. There is no elevator in this building, so we spend a lot of our time carrying things up and down those stairs. It keeps us moving, anyway. The light inside is always a bit dim because the buildings in this neighborhood are so close together, but we have enough lamps to see what we are doing. We usually have the radio playing quietly in the background, mostly just to block out some of the heavy noise from the street below. We drink a lot of water because it gets very stuffy in the summer months. It is just a traditional kind of business place.