Shri Sita Ram Khad Beej Bhandar

If you walk down Bhagwan Gali in Bhola Nagar, you'll eventually find us at 723-Shanti Villa. This is where Shri Sita Ram Khad Beej Bhandar is located. Kotlamubarkpur is a crowded part of New Delhi-3, and our shop is right in the thick of it. It smells like earth and seeds inside, which is something you get used to pretty quickly. We have bags of fertilizer stacked up against the walls and small drawers filled with different types of seeds. It’s not a very big space, so it can feel a bit cramped when three or four people come in at once. Shanti Villa is an old building, and you can see it in the way the doors creak and the plaster is a bit uneven in the corners. We spend most of the day weighing things out and chatting with the people who come in from the nearby areas. Most of them are looking for stuff for their small gardens or patches of land. We don't have a computer system for everything; we still write a lot of things down in big ledgers. It’s just simpler that way for us. When the sun goes down, Bhagwan Gali gets even busier with people heading home. We usually stay open until it’s quite late. It’s just a regular local shop where we try to keep things honest and straightforward for everyone who walks through the door.