Kirana and general store · Buvapada, Bhaskar Nagar, Ambernath (West), Thane — 421501 · Aashirvaad, Sunfeast, Yippee!, Bingo!, B Natural and Classmate kept in stock

Stationery

Kept up all year, not just in June.

Every shop in Ambernath stocks notebooks the fortnight before school reopens. The one that matters is the shop that still has the right long book in November, the night before it is due.

What is kept

Notebooks

Classmate ruled and unruled · long books · four-line and two-line for the younger classes · drawing books · graph books

Writing

Ball pens and gel pens · pencils and mechanical pencils · erasers, sharpeners and scales · highlighters and markers

Geometry & exam day

Geometry boxes · compass and protractor · exam pads and clipboards · practical journals

Paper & files

Foolscap and A4 · project paper and chart paper · files and folders · envelopes

Art & craft

Colour pencils, crayons and sketch pens · water colours · glue and glitter · craft paper

Covering & labels

Brown paper and plastic covering · name labels · tape and gum · stapler and pins
What this list is. The lines this shop keeps in stock, not a live count of the shelf and not a price list. Ranges and pack sizes change with what the distributor sends. Ask before making a special trip for one item.

Bring the school list.

It is the fastest way to do this, and it saves the second trip that a half-remembered list always causes.

Schools here specify the ruling, the page count and often the exact size — and a 172-page long book is not a 200-page one when the class checks. Bring the printed list, or a photograph of it, and it can be matched line by line rather than guessed at.

Anything not on the shelf can usually be got in a day or two. In June that is worth asking about early — the fortnight everybody buys at once is the fortnight the distributor runs out.

Open past eleven, the night before it is due

Buvapada, by Ambedkar Chowk in Bhaskar Nagar. Open from six in the morning until a quarter past eleven at night.

Buvapada, Bhaskar Nagar, Ambernath (West), Thane — 421501 · 6.00 a.m. – 11.15 p.m.