Kailash Provision Store

Kailash Provision Store is located at number 31 on Dehu Road. It’s a plain building, nothing special to look at from the outside, but we’ve got everything a kitchen needs inside. We spend a lot of our day weighing out dal, sugar, and flour into plastic bags. The smell of the shop is a mix of dried chilies, soap powder, and the jute bags we use for the heavy stuff. Dehu Road can be quite dusty with all the traffic, so we are constantly wiping down the counters. We know most of the families around here; we know who likes which brand of tea and who always forgets to bring their own carry bag. The shelves go all the way up to the ceiling, so we have a rickety wooden ladder we use to reach the top rows. Sometimes the cat from next door sneaks in and we have to shoo it out before it gets near the open grain bins. We don't really do any advertising or anything like that. People just know where we are because we’ve been here for years. The rain sometimes leaks through the front awning, so we have to move the stock back a bit during the monsoon. It’s a lot of manual work, lifting heavy bags and standing on our feet all day, but it’s a steady rhythm. We close for a couple of hours in the afternoon when it’s quiet anyway.