Defence Academy

Our place is in SCO 113 in Sector 34A, right in the middle of Chandigarh. If you know the area, you know it’s full of students and books. We have a few rooms on one of the floors where we hold our classes. It’s a pretty basic setup with whiteboards and some old wooden benches. We usually get in early to open the windows and let the air in before the first group arrives. The noise from the street is always there, but you get used to it after a while. Most of the staff here have been around for years. We don't have any fancy technology, just the books and the notes we've written down. It can get crowded in the corridors during the breaks when everyone goes out for a soda. We spend a lot of time talking to the young people who come here from the villages around Punjab and Haryana. They sit for hours trying to learn everything. We don't have a big marketing team or anything like that. People just find us by word of mouth or by seeing the board outside the building. It’s a practical place for studying. We stay until late evening most days, especially when exams are coming up. We keep a kettle in the back for making tea during the long shifts. It’s just a regular teaching spot in a busy sector of the city.