Ishita Graphics

People who know Narayan Peth understand how crowded Kelkar Road gets, especially around shop number 6 where we are. It’s a small place, honestly. You walk in and there’s usually the smell of ink and paper because we’ve got machines running most of the day. My family started Ishita Graphics here quite a while back. Most mornings begin with opening the shutters and sweeping the dust from the street before the first customers show up with their files on pendrives. It isn't a fancy office with air conditioning that works all the time, but we get things done. Sometimes the electricity acts up, so we just sit outside and chat with the neighbors until it comes back. We handle a lot of different design jobs, from small cards to bigger posters, and the noise of the printers is basically the soundtrack to our lives. It gets loud when three machines are going at once, but you get used to it. We know most of the people who walk through that door by their first names because they’ve been coming to us for years. Kelkar Road is a tight space for parking, so we often see people running in while their bikes are still idling outside. It’s just how things work in this part of Pune. We keep a stash of rubber bands and paper clips everywhere, and there’s always a half-finished cup of tea sitting on someone's desk. It’s a busy, messy, real kind of workplace.