The State Trading Corporation Of India Ltd.

You can find us up on the 4th floor of Chennai House. It's an old building over at 6 Esplanade. The elevators can be a bit slow some mornings, so most of us end up taking the stairs if we're in a hurry. The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd. has a lot of history in this area. It's a busy place with people coming and going all day. We deal with a lot of different commodities and bulk trades. It’s not just one thing. One day it might be grains and the next it's something else entirely. The office is pretty standard, lots of desks and filing cabinets filled with old records. We spend a lot of time on the phone or looking at spreadsheets. It gets noisy when everyone is working at once. Since we are near the Esplanade, there's always traffic outside. You can hear the horns from the street even four floors up. We've been operating out of this spot for a long time. It feels like home to most of the staff here. We don't do anything flashy. It's just about managing the trade cycles and keeping track of the inventory. Sometimes the paperwork piles up, but we get through it. We have tea breaks in the afternoon which is when most of the real talking happens. It's a steady kind of work. We just keep our heads down and do what needs doing.