Rishi Kumar Rajesh Kumar

You can find us at number 1286 in Katra Dhulia which is right in the middle of the Chandni Chowk area. If you have ever been down here you know how packed the streets get with people and handcarts every day. Our shop is tucked away in one of those very narrow lanes where the sun barely reaches the ground even at noon. Inside it is a bit cramped because we have so much stock piled up almost to the ceiling. It is mostly just me and a couple of others trying to keep track of where everything is hidden. We have these old wooden stools that we sit on when there are not many customers around to talk to. The air in the lane is always full of the smell of spices and fried food from the vendors on the corner. Sometimes the electricity goes off for an hour or two and we just use small lights to find what we need on the shelves. It is a very old building so the walls have some cracks and the floor is a bit uneven in the back. We do not really use any fancy computers for our work and a lot of the numbers are still written down in the big red ledger books. It is a noisy place to work with all the shouting and the rickshaw bells but it feels like home to us after all these years.