Jai Hanuman Sweets

Out here in Shirur, things move a bit differently than in the middle of the city. Jai Hanuman Sweets is right in the heart of things here. We spend a lot of time around the big metal vats, stirring and waiting for things to thicken up. The smell of sugar and milk is always hanging around the doorway. It’s a plain shop with white tiles that we have to scrub down every single night because things get sticky. We don't have any fancy displays with lights, just the glass cases where we put everything out once it is cooled down. The mornings are the busiest because that is when we are making the fresh batches. You can hear the scrapers hitting the bottom of the pans from the street. People in Shirur know us, and they come in when they have something to celebrate or just because they want a treat. We don't use any machines for the mixing; it’s all done by hand, which is why our arms are usually tired by the end of the shift. We just keep the trays full and the floor clean. It’s a straightforward way to make a living. We don't try to be anything we aren't. We just provide what the people in Shirur expect from us and try to do it right every day. The clock on the wall is usually five minutes fast, but we haven't bothered to fix it yet.