Oh!Calcutta, New Delhi

We are based out of a house in Birati, specifically at 67/72 Sibachal Main on Sisir Bhaduri Street. It’s a very local part of Kolkata, far away from the shiny shopping malls and corporate buildings of the main city. Our office for Oh!Calcutta is set up through Mukta Rani Das, and it’s basically just a regular room in a residential neighborhood. Finding the place can be a bit tricky because the streets around here are narrow and often filled with people, rickshaws, and small shops. We don’t have any big signs out front, so you really have to look for the house number on the gate. Inside, the atmosphere is very casual. We’ve got our computers and files arranged in a way that works for us, even if it looks a bit cluttered to an outsider. The ceiling fan is usually on high speed to deal with the Kolkata humidity, and you can always hear the sounds of the neighborhood coming through the windows. It might be a vendor shouting about fresh vegetables or neighbors having a loud conversation on their balcony. We like working from this spot because it’s where we feel most at home. It’s a very practical, low-cost way to run our operations without all the pretension of a downtown office. We do our own cleaning and make our own tea, and it just feels like a real, honest way to spend the workday. It’s nothing fancy, just a plain space where we handle things.