Maa Sharda General Store

You can find us on Annee Basant Road in Bankipur, Patna. We are very close to Patna College, so we get a lot of students coming in for small things between their classes. The shop has been in this spot for a long time, and the building is quite old now. It has its charms, I suppose, even if the walls could use a fresh coat of paint. We aren't a big supermarket or anything like that. It is just a small general store where we try to keep a bit of everything. The street outside is always noisy with rickshaws and people talking, but that’s just how it is in this part of Patna. We don't have a big staff. Usually, it is just me or my father at the desk. We know many of the customers who have been coming here for decades. They remember when I was just a kid hanging around the shop. We don't use any fancy technology to track our stock. We just look at the shelves and see what is missing. It is a bit of a manual process, but it works for us. The summers get very hot here, so the afternoons are slow and quiet. We just wait for the evening when it cools down and the crowd picks up again. We don't have any grand plans. We just want to keep the doors open and serve our neighbors. It’s a decent way to spend the day.