Balaji Dhanya Bhandar & Kirana General Stores

This shop, Balaji Dhanya Bhandar & Kirana General Stores, is on Hingna Road in the Rajeev Nagar part of Lokmanya Nagar. We handle a lot of grain here, so there is always a bit of a mess with husks or dust on the floor. It is hard to keep it perfectly clean when you are scooping out kilos of wheat and rice all day. We also have the usual general store items like biscuits and washing powder. The sun hits the front of the shop pretty hard in the afternoon so we have to hang a cloth to keep the interior cool. I spend most of my day weighing things on the scale and tying up plastic bags. People from around the neighborhood stop in after work to grab what they forgot in the morning. Sometimes we run out of something and I have to tell them to come back tomorrow after the delivery truck comes. It is just me and one other person usually. The shelves are made of old wood and they groan a bit under the weight of the cans. We don't have any fancy signs or lights. It is just a place to get what you need for your kitchen. Hingna Road is always busy with trucks and bikes, so it never really gets quiet until very late at night when we finally pull down the shutters.