Shastry Foundation

Shastry Foundation is located at 7 Atharv Vidhut Nagari, which is right near the Mahabal Colony in Jalgaon. It’s a residential-feeling area, so it’s not as noisy as the main market parts of town. We have a small building that serves as our headquarters. There is a little bit of space out front where we park a few bikes. Inside, the rooms are fairly small but they fit what we need. We have a few desks and some shelves piled high with boxes and folders. It’s the kind of place where you always know where everyone is because you can hear them talking through the walls. We have a small kitchen area where we eat lunch together. Jalgaon can get incredibly hot, so the fans are almost always on their highest setting. The floors are tiled and easy to clean, which is good because dust gets in from the street. We’ve been here for some time and the neighbors know us. We aren't doing anything flashy. Most of our work is done on paper or on the few laptops we have. We don't have any big corporate signs, just a small nameplate near the door. It’s a quiet, practical place to work. Sometimes we sit outside on the steps when the sun starts to go down and it cools off a bit. It’s just us doing what we do every day in our little corner of Jalgaon.