Burhani Machine Tools & Hardware

If you go to 4 Bhosari, on the 18th Main in the 6th Block, you will find us at Burhani Machine Tools & Hardware. It is near that New New Times of India building. The shop is basically walls of shelves from the floor all the way up to the ceiling. We have bins full of bolts, washers, and every kind of drill bit you could probably think of. It is a bit of a maze in here. If someone asks for a specific size of wrench, we usually know exactly which pile it is in, even if it looks like a mess to anyone else. We get a lot of guys from the nearby workshops coming in because they broke a tool or ran out of screws in the middle of a job. It is mostly a lot of counting out small parts and putting them into little plastic bags. The floor is concrete and stays cool, but the air smells like machine oil and metal. We have an old ledger where we write things down, though we try to use the computer too. Sometimes we just stand at the counter and talk about the weather or how the local cricket team is doing. It is a steady kind of life. We close up when it gets dark and start all over again the next morning. There is always someone needing a hardware part they can’t find anywhere else nearby.