“Going to bed with an empty stomach is better than going to bed with a heart filled with guilt.” My first memory of grandpa was when I visited Garhwal in 1975, along with my brother Sanjay during my summer vacations. I was only 12 years old then; Sanjay only a year older. And the remote […]
In my household, like many others, the task of preparing the shopping list falls to my mother. I remember the days when I used to visit the bustling anaj mandi in Bahadurgarh to pick up kirana (grocery) items. The mandi had large, well-stocked stores, and I preferred buying from Dhamdia Stores because they were frequented
As part of our mission to identify sustainable survival spaces for our neighbourhood Kiranas in a landscape increasingly characterised by the presence of organised retail and e-commerce players, we are conducting exploratory interviews with Kirana owners. Today, we share insights from an in-depth interview with a local kirana owner. This particular interview focused on a
