Om Prakash Singh

Finding room 303 at 619 A 9 on the Tis Hazari Main Road can be a bit of a challenge if you haven't been here before. You have to navigate the stairs and the crowds of people who are always gathered around the court area. Our office isn't very big, and it is usually filled with the smell of old paper and the ink from our printers. We have a lot of steel cupboards to keep all the documents safe, and they take up most of the wall space in the room. The windows look out over the main road, so you can see the cars and rickshaws jammed together all day long. It is a very busy atmosphere, but we have gotten used to the noise over the years. We don't have a lot of fancy technology, just the basic things we need to get our work done. The light isn't the best in here, especially in the late afternoon, but we have some desk lamps that help us see. People come in with all sorts of questions, and we do our best to point them in the right direction even if we are in the middle of something. There is a sense of history in these old buildings, with so many people coming and going for decades. My chair has a bit of a wobble to it, and the paint is peeling near the ceiling, but we don't mind much. It is just a place for work.