Madan Provision Store

Rani Bagh is always crowded, especially around the main market area where we are located at number 9. If you walk through Rishi Nagar, you eventually hit our spot. Being in the main market means there is never a quiet moment from the time we open until we close up at night. We spend a lot of our time just moving boxes around and making sure everything is where it should be on the shelves. It’s a traditional provision store, nothing too modern or shiny about it. We’ve got the bags of rice and flour sitting near the front and smaller items tucked into the back corners. The noise from the street outside is constant, with people haggling and scooters honking, but we’re used to it after all these years. My family has been doing this for a while, and the routine hasn't changed much. We open up, dust the counters, and wait for the morning deliveries to show up. Some customers have been coming to us since I was much younger, and they don't even have to tell us what they want sometimes. We just know. It gets a bit dusty being right on the main road, so there’s a lot of cleaning involved every single day. We don’t use any big computer systems; it’s mostly just jotting things down or remembering the prices. It is hard work being on your feet all day, but that’s just the nature of running a shop in a place like Delhi.