Kishan Ganeriwala

Up on the 6th floor of Gowri Apartment on New BEL Road, it’s a lot quieter than the street level. I spend most of my time here at the desk, looking out the window at the tops of the trees and the traffic moving below. The apartment is mostly a workspace now, filled with stacks of files and various notebooks. It’s not a corporate office with a sign on the door or a secretary out front. Usually, I’m just here alone or with one other person, going through papers and taking calls throughout the morning. The balcony gets a nice breeze, which helps because the afternoon sun hits this side of the building pretty hard. I’ve got a small kitchen area where I make coffee, and that’s about it for amenities. People who come over to drop off documents usually have to wait for the elevator, which is a bit slow. It feels more like a home than a place of business, which I prefer anyway. There isn’t any fancy furniture, just a solid table and some shelves that are starting to sag under the weight of all the records. It's a simple setup for getting the work done without much distraction from the outside world. I try to keep things organized, but the piles of paper seem to grow faster than I can sort them out.