Mohd Husain Ajmal Husain Store

Our store is right in the middle of Khari Baoli, at 6681/82. If you’ve ever been to this part of Delhi, you know how crowded and chaotic it gets. The smell of spices is so strong it stays in your clothes even after you go home. This place has been in the family for a long time. It’s not a big shop, just enough space for us to stand behind the counter and for the bags of goods to be stacked up to the ceiling. We sell a bit of everything that people in this market need. Some days are so busy you can barely move, and other days it’s just us chatting with the neighboring shopkeepers. Khari Baoli is an old place with a lot of history, and we feel like a small part of that. We don’t use any computers or fancy systems; we still write everything down in the old registers. It works for us. My father taught me how to handle the customers, and now my son is learning too. We don’t have a website or do any of that modern stuff. People know where we are and what we have. It’s a simple way of living. We open up early, sweep the front, and wait for the first customer of the day. It’s been the same routine for as long as I can remember. We don’t see any reason to change it now after all these years.