Sakshi Telugu Daily

Our office is over at 36/2Rt in the Municipal Colony area of Malakpet. If you know Hyderabad, you know this part of town gets pretty crowded during the day. Our office isn't anything fancy, just a regular building where we get the Telugu paper ready every single day. It’s a lot of work getting everything printed and sent out before the sun comes up. Most of us have been working here for years now. We drink a lot of chai and talk about what’s going on in the city. The neighbors in Malakpet see us coming and going at all hours because news doesn’t really stop. Sometimes the printing machines are loud, but that’s just how it goes when you’re putting out a daily paper. We have desks piled with papers and notebooks. It’s a bit messy, to be honest. But we know where everything is. People stop by sometimes to tell us something they saw on their street or just to complain about the traffic outside. We just try to get the stories right and make sure the bundles are ready for the delivery guys who wait on their cycles. It’s a routine that we’ve stuck to for a long time. There’s always someone here, even late at night when the rest of the colony is quiet. We don't have a big corporate lobby or anything like that. Just some chairs and a lot of ink.