Colossal Manpower

Our setup is in Flat 204 of Tolly Tower, right there on the busy 113 NSC Bose Road in Tollygunge. If you are from Kolkata, you know exactly how that area feels—there is always a lot of noise from the street and the tram lines are not too far away. Vivek Kumar is usually the one coordinating everything from his desk which is piled high with folders. We spend a lot of time on the phone talking to different people about jobs and where they might fit in. It is a lot of paperwork and matching names to requirements, which can get a bit tiring by the afternoon. The building itself is one of those older ones where the lift takes a bit of time to arrive, so we often just take the stairs if we are in a hurry. We have some plastic chairs for visitors to sit on while they wait to talk to us. The air conditioner works most of the time, but when it’s really humid outside, we just open the windows and deal with the street sounds. It’s just a regular office where we try to keep things moving. We don't have a big reception area or anything like that. People just walk in, sit down, and we see what we can do for them. It gets crowded on Monday mornings when everyone is looking for updates, but we manage somehow with a few cups of tea and some patience.