The Shalimar Emporium

The Shalimar Emporium is tucked away on Chandpole Road, near Gadia Devra. If you know the older parts of the city, you know it can get pretty crowded and loud around here. We’ve been in this exact spot for quite some time now. It’s an old building, so it has its share of quirks, like the narrow stairs and the way the light comes in through the small windows in the afternoon. We don't have a big shiny showroom with glass cases. It’s more of a place where things are stacked up on shelves and you have to look through them to see everything we have. We carry a mix of stuff, mostly things we think people will find useful or nice for their own homes. The traffic outside is always humming, and you can hear the rickshaw horns all day long. We open up early in the morning and stay until the sun goes down. It’s a family-run kind of thing, so there’s usually one of us sitting by the front door to greet people. We don't use any fancy sales tactics or try to push things on anyone. If you like something, you buy it. If not, that’s fine too. We’ve seen the neighborhood change a lot over the years, but we’ve stayed pretty much the same. It gets a bit dusty with the road being so close, so we spend a lot of time wiping things down with old rags. It’s just a regular shop doing its best to stay open and keep the local customers happy.