Ranveer Spice Hut

You can find Ranveer Spice Hut on Karve Road 7. It’s a small shop tucked between a stationery store and a repair place. The first thing you notice when you walk in is the smell. It’s a mix of everything we have in the bins, mostly turmeric and dried chilies. It gets into your clothes if you stay too long. I’ve been working here for a few years now and my nose has mostly gotten used to it. We spend our mornings weighing things out into small plastic bags. The scales we use are old but they still work fine if you balance them right. Outside, the traffic on Karve Road is always moving. The noise of the horns never really stops until late at night. We have wooden shelves that go all the way up to the ceiling. Sometimes I have to use a ladder to reach the jars at the very top. It’s a bit dusty up there because the street is so close. Customers come in looking for specific things for their cooking. We don't do any fancy packaging. We just wrap things up in paper or bags and hand them over. It is a quiet life inside the shop compared to the chaos on the street. We sweep the floor three times a day because people bring in dirt from the sidewalk. It is just a small business selling what people need for their kitchens at home. We just keep our heads down and do the work.