Jamu And Kashmir Handicrafts (S & E) Corporation Ltd.

We are located over here in the old Emporium Building on Residency Road. It is a building with a lot of history in the walls, and you can really feel it when you walk in. You will usually find us surrounded by big stacks of shawls and wood carvings that have come in from different parts of the state. It is actually quite quiet in the early mornings before the visitors start walking in from the street. We spend that time sorting through all the inventory and making sure everything has the right label on it. Some of the wooden items are pretty heavy, so there is a lot of lifting and moving things around involved in a normal day. It is not like a modern corporate office with glass walls or anything like that. It feels more like a workshop or a storehouse most of the time. We talk to the artisans who bring their work in to us, and they always have some interesting stories about how things are being made back in their home villages. Residency Road stays very busy with traffic and noise, but inside this building, it feels like a different world. We have a lot of paperwork to deal with, which is expected for a corporation. Sometimes the lights flicker or the air feels a bit damp when it rains, but we just sit at our desks and get through the tasks. People stop by to look at the displays, and we just help them out.