Nidhi Singhania

I’m Nidhi Singhania and this is our office in Lake Town, Kolkata. We are in Block-B, specifically at P-242. Lake Town is a pretty nice area with the big clock tower and the water nearby, though our office is tucked away in the quieter residential streets. It’s an old building, and our space is on one of the upper floors. You have to walk up some narrow stairs to get to us. Inside, it’s a bit cramped because we have a lot of stuff piled up. We’ve got some old wooden cabinets filled with papers and a few computers that are always running. The windows look out over the rooftops of the neighboring houses. During the monsoon, you can hear the rain hitting the windowpanes really loudly. We usually have some tea around eleven and talk about what’s going on in the city. It’s not a corporate environment at all. We wear regular clothes and sometimes we have the fan on even when it’s not that hot just to keep the air moving. We’ve been in Block-B for a while now, so we know most of the people who live around P-242. It’s a comfortable place to be, even if it gets a bit messy sometimes. We don't have any fancy brochures or a front desk person. If someone comes by, they just knock on the door and we let them in. It’s just us doing our thing every day in the city.