Nalco, Damanjodi

Our office is located in Cuttack, right on Post Office Lane in the Jhangiri Mangala area. We’re in a spot called Dream Land, which sounds a bit more poetic than it actually is. It’s just a regular building where we handle our daily business. Being near the post office is actually pretty handy for us because we still send and receive quite a bit of physical mail. Cuttack is an old city with lots of narrow lanes, and our location is no different. It can be a bit crowded during peak hours, but we’ve gotten used to the rhythm of the place. We don’t have any polished slogans or a team of people to make us look more important than we are. We are just a group of people working out of this space. The rooms are filled with the usual office stuff—desks, chairs, and plenty of ledgers. It gets a bit dusty being so close to the road, but we keep things as tidy as we can. We’ve been here for a while and the locals know us. We just try to get through our list of things to do every day without causing any trouble. It’s a simple operation and we like it that way. No need for anything fancy when the current setup works just fine for what we need. Sometimes the monsoon rains make the lane a bit muddy, but we just wear our boots and keep going.