Summer is a life giver for these vendors

Nanal Nagar: Mud pots are ready to be sold, lemons to be squished and melons to be chopped into pieces as summer is on the way. Markets in Hyderabad are teeming with seasonal sellers who are ready to sell their goods.

Pandurang a full-time potter says “I’m preparing for the summer since December creating pots, jars, vessels and other fancy containers to sell.  

I use red clay to prepare these pots an add charcoal for making black pots. Some people like charcoal pots because it keeps the water cool and acts as a cleaner as well. I open my store from the month of March to August, and usually it’s the month of March when my sales are at peak, because people usually buy pots before summer”.

There are uncountable coconut stalls in at Nanal Nagar road and the hawkers sell coconuts at cheaper prices like 10-15 rupees per piece for local coconuts, some of them procure coconuts form Kerala which costs about 25 rupees each and some sell coconuts from Rajahmundry which is for 20-25 Rupees each. 

Sunder Shyam, lemonade maker said “earlier I use to work in handloom factory now I’m self employed with his lemonade stall this summer, I’m really happy because I sell about 150-200 glasses of lemonade every day. 

It is more than what I earned in my previous job”.  
It’s productive season for the ice-cream stalls, but a toiling one for the ice-cream tout. Muzzamil has to roam around streets every summer to sell his ice-creams, he said he works as a labour which during summer is impossible to do with the rising heat, so he gets self employed during summers.

Summers will boil us without melons says a melon seller Afroz who every year installs his melon store at Nanal-Nagar where he sells, Water melons and Musk melons he also chops them and serves ready. 

Raju is a mint juice maker from Bihar he visits Hyderabad every year by the month of March and starts his summer business after summer he starts selling roasted corn in the rainy season and moves back to his village in September and continues his business in Hyderabad from March.

By Mayank Tiwari