Ajaz Motor Driving School

The shop is right on the Main Road in Chinhat, which means it gets pretty noisy with all the trucks passing by. Most mornings start with dusting off the desks because the Lucknow air brings in a lot of grit from the street. We’ve got the cars parked out front, usually the ones with the learner signs on top. It’s nothing fancy inside, just a couple of chairs and a table where we keep the registers. Most people come in after they finish their day jobs, so the evenings are usually a bit more crowded than the mornings. You can hear the fans whirring the whole time because it gets quite hot in this part of town. We spend a lot of time talking about gears and how to handle the clutch without stalling it in the middle of a busy crossing. Sometimes the traffic is so bad that we just sit there idling for ten minutes. It gives the students some time to get used to the feel of the car, I guess. We keep a stack of forms on the shelf and an old calendar on the wall that sometimes doesn't get flipped on time. There’s a tea stall just a few steps away, so there is usually a smell of ginger tea drifting in. We've been at this address in Lucknow for a while now, just doing the daily work and helping folks figure out how to drive without hitting anything. It’s a straightforward setup.