Laxmi Traders

Laxmi Traders is located in Nagpur, right near St. Don Bosco Primary School. Having a school nearby means it gets very loud and busy in the mornings and then again in the afternoons when the kids are coming and going. We are used to the sound of school bells and children shouting by now, and it just becomes part of the background of our workday. Our shop is a simple place where we do all our trading. We have shelves and stacks of goods filling up most of the space inside, so it can feel a bit crowded. There isn't much room for a fancy office or a sitting area, so we just have a small wooden desk tucked into the corner where we keep the books. People from the neighborhood often stop by just to say hello or ask about the prices of things. We don't use any high-tech systems for most of what we do; it is still a lot of ledgers and hand-written notes in our journals. Nagpur weather can be tough to deal with, especially when the heat really picks up in the middle of the year, so we have a few old fans that we keep running all day long. The floor is often covered in bits of packing material or dust that blows in from the street. We don't try to look like a big company from the city center with a lot of polished surfaces. We are just a local business that has been around for a bit and knows the people here. We open up the shutters every morning and stay until the sun goes down and the street gets quiet again. It is a steady way to make a living, and we like being part of the community here near the school.