Tufcon Jeans Co.

If you know Tank Road in Karol Bagh, you know how busy it gets. We are tucked away in Gali number 1, block 6. The building is 6231-32, near the Club Man area. It’s a tight squeeze in these lanes, especially when we have bundles of denim moving through. We focus on jeans here. It’s what we know. The shop is always full of that blue fabric smell. We don’t have much space for a lobby or anything like that. It’s mostly just shelves full of stock and some sewing machines in the back. Karol Bagh is the heart of the garment trade in Delhi, so we have to stay on our toes. There are people shouting and bikes squeezing past the doors all day long. It is a bit messy sometimes with the threads and the scrap pieces on the floor. We try to sweep up at the end of the day. We are just a small crew. We see a lot of different people coming through looking for wholesale deals. It’s not a fancy corporate life. It’s about negotiating prices and making sure the stitching holds up on the pockets. We’ve been in this gali for a long time. Everyone around here knows us and we know them. It is just a regular life in the city, working hard to get the batches ready for the market. Sometimes we have to work through the night to finish an order. It's just part of it. We keep our heads down and work.