Kusum Collection

Kusum Collection is tucked away in the Dudhane Building, right on NDA Road in Warje. It’s Shop number 139, which sounds like it would be hard to find, but once you’re in the building, it’s pretty straightforward. We’ve been here in Warje for some time now. The shop is basically a room filled with clothes and different bits of fabric. It’s not a big mall or anything, just a small local spot. We spend a lot of time folding things back up after customers look through them. That's a big part of the day, really. The NDA Road gets quite a bit of traffic, so there’s always noise coming in from the front. We usually have the radio on or just talk to whoever walks in. It’s a family-run kind of thing. My cousin helps out sometimes when it gets busy. We don't have a website or anything like that, just the physical shop. People mostly come in because they live nearby or they're passing through Warje. The lighting isn't the brightest, but you can see what you're buying. We try to keep things simple. If we don't have something, we just say so. No point in making things complicated. It’s a decent place to work. We know the other shop owners in the building too. Sometimes we grab tea together in the afternoon when things quiet down. It is just a regular shop where we do our work every day.