Shiv Bhandar General Store

You can find Shiv Bhandar General Store right at Aakhariya Chowk in Sadri. It is a busy spot because of the intersection and there is always someone passing by. The shop is filled with all sorts of small things you need at home like soaps, detergent, and notebooks for the school kids. We keep the matches and candles near the front because people always ask for those last. It gets quite noisy with the bikes and the local talk outside in the chowk. We sit on a small stool most of the day near the entrance. The shelves go all the way up to the ceiling so we have a ladder to reach the top boxes. It is not a big place but we manage to fit a lot of stuff inside. Sometimes the cows wander close to the door and we have to shoo them away. We don't have a computer or anything like that. Everything is done by hand in our notebooks. When the rains come, the chowk gets a bit muddy but people still come in for their daily supplies. We see the same faces every morning and evening. It is just a basic shop for the neighborhood. We try to keep the stock full so nobody has to go too far for a simple bar of soap or a packet of tea. It is a small life but it keeps us busy enough.