Maneklal J Shah

My business, Maneklal J Shah, is located at 173 Lalbaug Road. If you know this part of the city at all, you know that Lalbaug Road is almost always crowded. There are people walking everywhere and scooters weaving through the cars at all hours of the day. Our building has been here for years, and it shows in the cracked walls and the old heavy windows. Inside, it’s mostly just me and a few others working through piles of paperwork and daily tasks. We don’t have a fancy website or a marketing person telling us what to say to people. It’s just an old-fashioned way of doing things that we’ve stuck with. The ceiling fan has a bit of a squeak that we’ve stopped noticing after all this time in the office. Sometimes customers come in just to sit and talk for a bit because they’ve been coming here for decades and know us well. We deal with things as they come. It’s not a high-speed corporate office with people in suits. Sometimes the mail gets delivered to the neighbor by mistake, and we have to go fetch it from down the street. It’s that kind of neighborhood place. We try to keep things organized, but the shelves are pretty full of old ledgers and boxes. When the rain starts, you can hear it hitting the roof really loud, which makes it hard to talk on the phone. We just wait for it to stop.