Apprenticship

Kirubha Nithi here. We run this little spot in Kariyamonickapuram. It’s a busy corner near the Kottar post office in Nagercoil. My father S. Lekshmanan started helping out here years ago. It’s not a big fancy office. Mostly we just deal with the local guys coming in. The building is at 3/5, you can't miss it if you know the area. People in Kanyakumari district know where we are. It gets hot in the afternoons but the door is always open. We don't have a website or anything like that, just a desk and some chairs. Sometimes the power goes out but we keep working through it. It’s a family thing, really. We’ve been here for a while and the neighbors know us. It’s just how we do things in Nagercoil. Nothing fancy about it. We sit here, we talk to people, and we handle the paperwork. Sometimes it gets a bit messy with all the files but that’s just how a real office looks. If you walk past the post office and head toward Kariyamonickapuram, you’ll see our sign eventually. It’s been there forever. We don’t spend money on big ads because everyone knows the name anyway. It’s just Nithi and the rest of us making sure everything gets done. The floors are a bit worn down from people walking in all day. That's fine though. It shows we're actually doing something. We just keep at it day by day.