Bachpan

Our shop, Bachpan, is right across from the Santosh Sapna Theatre. If you know that area near Delhi G P O, you’ve probably walked past us a dozen times. The address is 4/1/E/976, which sounds complicated but it's easy to find once you're on that street. We mainly sell things for children. It’s a bit of a chaotic business because kids are always messy, but we enjoy it. The theatre across the street brings in a lot of people, especially on the weekends when there’s a big movie playing. We see all sorts of folks coming in. Some just want to look around while they wait for their show to start. We don't mind. It's a small space, so it gets cramped quickly. We’ve been here long enough that the local rickshaw drivers know us. We don't spend money on fancy displays or big slogans. We just put our stock out and hope people find what they need. Some of the stuff on the shelves has been there a bit too long, but we eventually clear it out. It's just a regular shop run by regular people. We have our good days and our bad ones, like any other place near the G P O. Sometimes the heat is unbearable in the summer, but we keep the door open anyway. It’s just how we operate. Nothing fancy or corporate about it. Just Bachpan, doing our thing.