Sunday, September 20, 2009

The sketch shop at Eat Street

The small computerized sketch-and-frame guy near the entrance of Eat Street (off the Hussain Sagar lake, Necklace Road, Hyderabad) was quite frank when one of us wondered aloud about whether is was the rent that caused him to charge us what he was asking for. "My shop's rent is the cheapest in Eat Street", he says, "25,000". Given the size of that miserable square box, we exclaim about it. "I sell for about 1 Lakh a month". The other make-shift shops go for 35k and the actual eateries are rented out at 1.5 Lakh a month apparently. My friends and I walk out, the two sketch copies gotten at Rs. 250 a piece - 100/- for the print (down from the 150 he initially asked for) + 150/- for the frame.