Shiv Shakti Trading Company

The shop is right here in Shukulpur on the Bharatganj Bypass. We are tucked in near the Shiv Mandir, so you can always hear the temple bells in the morning when we are opening up the shutters. It is a busy spot with all the trucks and cars zooming past on the bypass all day long. The dust from the road settles on the desks pretty fast, so someone is always wiping things down. We do our trading work from this small office. It is not fancy, just some desks, a few chairs that have seen better days, and stacks of ledgers and paperwork everywhere. Allahabad gets really hot in the summer months, so the ceiling fan stays on the highest setting, though it mostly just pushes the warm air around. Most of the guys from the nearby shops come over for tea around four o'clock. We talk about the market and the weather mostly. It is a lot of phone calls and checking on deliveries that are stuck somewhere on the highway. Sometimes the power goes out and we just sit outside on the stone step until it comes back. The neighborhood is okay, everyone knows each other. We have been in this spot for a while now and the locals know to find us behind the temple. It is just regular daily business, nothing too exciting happens, but we stay busy enough to keep the lights on and the work moving along.