A Chowdhury & Co

The office for A Chowdhury & Co is at 94, Chittaranjan Ave, right in the heart of Bowbazar. It is an old building with high ceilings and those thick walls that keep the place a bit cooler than the street outside. Bowbazar is a busy area, so there is always the sound of horns and people shouting coming through the windows. We have been at this address for a long time, and the floorboards have a certain creak to them that we all know by heart. There are shelves reaching up to the ceiling filled with ledgers and old papers. It is not a modern looking place at all. The desks are heavy and made of dark wood, and there is usually a layer of fine city dust on the windowsills no matter how often they get cleaned. Working on Chittaranjan Ave means there is always somewhere to grab a quick snack or a tea just a few steps away. We mostly just keep our heads down and get through the paperwork that piles up. The light in the office is a bit dim in the afternoons, but we have some desk lamps that help. It is a very traditional atmosphere where things move at a steady pace. Visitors usually comment on how much history the building seems to have. We just think of it as the place where we go to work every morning.