Durga Wood Works

If you head down Shankar Sheth Road, you’ll find our workshop, Durga Wood Works. You can usually hear us before you see us because the saws are almost always running throughout the day. We work with wood, mostly making furniture or frames for people in the neighborhood. The air in here is always full of sawdust, no matter how much we sweep the floor. We have stacks of timber leaning against the walls, just waiting to be cut into something useful. It’s hard work on the hands and the back. I’ve got callouses from years of doing this, and so do the other guys who work here. We don't have a fancy showroom with bright lights and mirrors. People just walk into the back where we are actually working. They bring sketches on scraps of paper or just tell us what they need for their house. We measure it out and start cutting the wood. Sometimes a piece of wood has a knot we didn't see, and we have to adjust the whole plan. That’s just the nature of working with natural materials like this. We’ve been on this road for a long time. The traffic outside is constant, but the sound of the planer usually drowns it out. We don't do much advertising. People just know we are here. We finish one job and move to the next one. It’s honest work. By the time we shut the shutters at night, everything is covered in dust.