Birla Eye Clinic

We are located at Shop No 4 in the Mahalaxmi Complex. It sits right on the Mumbai Agra Road, and Wadala Road is right there too. Nashik is a big place, but this corner is where we spend our lives. The Birla Eye Clinic isn't huge. It’s a shop, really. We have the machines for checking eyes and racks of frames for glasses. The traffic on the Mumbai Agra Road never seems to stop. You can hear the horns all day long. Sometimes it makes it hard to hear what the patients are saying. We spend a lot of time helping people pick out glasses that don't look too bad on them. Some people have been coming to us for years. They remember when the complex was new. Now, it’s a bit worn out, but it’s still standing. We keep the floor swept and the mirrors clean. It’s a simple job, looking at eyes. We aren't trying to be the biggest clinic in Nashik. We just want to do the work and go home to our families. The light in the shop is bright so we can see what we are doing. When the sun goes down, the streetlights on Wadala Road come on and we start packing up. It’s a living. We have our tea, we talk to the neighbors in the other shops, and we wait for the next person who can't see the signs.