Kartar General Store

The shop is tucked away in Mahaveer Bazar, right in the Teliwara part of Sadar Bazar. If you know this area, you know how crowded and loud it gets every single morning. We are at Shop 2550/B. It’s not a huge place, but we try to fit as much as we can onto the wooden shelves. We've got everything from soap to snacks and household bits. Sometimes the boxes are piled up so high you can barely see the back wall. It’s a bit of a maze in here sometimes. Dealing with the wholesalers in Sadar Bazar is a whole task in itself, so we’re always moving things around. The floor is old stone and it gets dusty with all the people walking through Mahaveer Bazar. We don’t have any fancy displays or anything like that. It’s just us and the goods we sell. Most of our customers are locals who live nearby or other shopkeepers grabbing something they ran out of. The light inside is a bit dim, but it stays cool enough when it’s burning hot outside. We open early and stay until the market starts to quiet down. It’s a lot of work keeping track of what’s in stock. You just get used to the noise of the carts and people shouting outside. It’s just how things are here in the middle of all the chaos. We wouldn't know what to do with ourselves in a quiet place.