M S Vikram Jain Associates

Our office is on the first floor of number 373 Mint Street in Sowcarpet. If you know Chennai, you know how busy Mint Street can get at almost any time of the day. It is a narrow building and you have to walk up some old stairs to reach us. We have been Vikram Jain Associates for a long while now. The office is basically just two rooms filled with old desks and a lot of paper files. We don't use much technology besides the basics. Most of our work is about going through documents and helping people with their associate needs. Sowcarpet is a great place to work because everything you need is right outside the door. We often get our lunch from the local stalls nearby. The office isn't air-conditioned in the way big corporate buildings are, so we rely on the ceiling fans to stay cool. It can get pretty loud with the sounds of the market coming up from the street, but we are used to it by now. We don't have a big staff, just a few of us who have worked together for years. We aren't trying to impress anyone with a fancy lobby. We just do the work, have our tea, and talk to the clients who climb the stairs to see us. It is a traditional way of working in an old part of the city and it feels right to us.