Rashmi Cement Ltd.

Being located on the 6th floor of the Premlata Building at 39 Shakespear Sarani means we see a lot of the Kolkata bustle. Shakespear Sarani is one of those streets that never seems to go quiet. Rashmi Cement Ltd. is handled from this office, which is a bit different from the actual cement plants where the heavy work happens. Up here, it’s more about the paperwork, the phone calls, and the constant coming and going of staff. The elevators in the building can be slow, especially during the lunch hour when everyone is trying to get down to the street for food. Inside the office, the desks are piled with files and the air conditioner is usually humming to keep the West Bengal humidity at bay. It’s a typical city office setup, nothing too fancy, just functional. We spend a lot of time looking at spreadsheets and talking to transporters over the phone. From the windows, you can see the rooftops of Kolkata and the traffic crawling below. It’s a long way from the dust of a cement kiln, but this is where the planning happens. We’ve got a small kitchen area where we make tea, which is pretty much the fuel for the afternoon. It gets pretty frantic when big orders are being processed, but we manage to keep things organized enough. It’s just our corner of the city where we handle the business side of cement. No corporate speeches, just a lot of typing, filing, and talking.