Jai Narain Satish Kumar

If you have ever been to Moti Bazar in Chandni Chowk, you know it is a place where you have to keep your elbows in. Our shop, Jai Narain Satish Kumar, is at Shop No 126. It is a tight squeeze like everywhere else in this part of Delhi. The building has been there forever and you can tell by the way the walls look and how the electrical wires hang in big bunches outside the door. We spend most of our time sitting on the floor or on small wooden stools because there isn't much room for big furniture. It gets very crowded in the afternoons when the shoppers are out in full force. We don't have a website or any of that modern stuff that people use these days. People know us because we have been here at this same spot for many years. Sometimes the rain leaks in a bit near the front door, and we have to move things around quickly, but we manage. It’s a noisy life with the rickshaws and the people calling out all the time, but we are used to it. We don't try to be anything we are not. We just open the shop, talk to our neighbors, and see what the day brings. It is just a simple way of doing things in a very busy, crowded market. We don't need much more than that.