Hakim Garlics Company

If you walk down toward Dalal Chowk in Ghorpadi Peth, you’ll likely smell us before you see us. Hakim Garlics Company is located at 83-B in Uday Nagar. Our business is garlic. It’s been that way for a long time. The shop is basically a large warehouse space filled with gunny bags. These bags are heavy, and moving them around is how we spend most of our morning. There are always garlic skins blowing around the floor, no matter how much we sweep. It’s a dusty, pungent environment, but we are used to it. My clothes always have that faint smell of garlic on them. We deal with a lot of different people, from farmers bringing in the load to smaller sellers who buy from us. It’s a busy spot. Ghorpadi Peth is an old area, and the streets are quite tight. When a truck comes to unload, everything else has to stop for a bit. We don't have an office with computers and fancy chairs. We usually just sit on the crates or a wooden stool. We keep our records in a simple notebook. It’s a tough business, especially when the prices change or the weather is bad for the crop. But we stay at it. We start work very early, often while the streetlights are still on. It’s a basic life, centered around this one ingredient. We don't have a website or a marketing person. We just have the garlic and our spot here in the peth.