Poona Pork Shop

Working at Poona Pork Shop in the Parmar Industrial Estate is a busy job. We are located at Shop No 2 in the Hi Line Park Complex, which is right in the middle of a lot of other small businesses and warehouses. The morning starts with the delivery truck arriving and us moving the heavy crates into the cold storage area. Viman Nagar is a fast place, and you can hear the planes from the airport nearby all day long. It gets pretty cold inside because of the freezers, so I usually wear a thick sweater even when it is hot outside on Ramwad road. The shop isn't very large, so things can get a bit cramped when we have three or four people waiting at the counter. We spend a lot of time cleaning the blocks and sharpening the knives because that’s just how it has to be done. Some people come from quite far away because they know we are tucked away here in this specific industrial pocket. The floors are concrete and we keep them hosed down throughout the shift. It’s not the kind of place where you come to hang out, you just get what you need and head home. The complex has a lot of activity with people moving boxes and vans backing in and out of the narrow lanes. We’ve been in this Ramwad spot for a while and the neighbors all know us by name now.