Uttar Pradesh Sainik School

You'll find us right on National Highway-25, out here in Sarojini Nagar. It’s a busy stretch of Kanpur Road, but once you step inside the gates of Uttar Pradesh Sainik School, things get a lot more orderly. We’ve been here in Lucknow for a long time now. People usually know where we are because of the big entrance. The sun hits the parade ground pretty hard in the summer months, but the students keep at it anyway. It’s mostly about routine here. Getting up early, making sure everything is where it should be, and following the schedule day after day. There’s a lot of space for the boys to run around and do their drills. The old buildings have seen many classes come and go since the sixties. Sometimes the monkeys from the nearby trees cause a bit of a stir, but that’s just part of life on this campus. We don't have a lot of fancy stuff, just what’s needed for the training and the classes. Teachers stay in the staff quarters, so someone is always around if a kid gets a scraped knee or needs extra help with a math problem. It gets a bit noisy when the morning assembly starts, but it’s a good kind of noise. We just keep doing what we do, making sure the kids learn how to stand tall and take care of their own things. It’s a quiet life in a way, despite being near a major road. We just keep the gates open and wait for the new batch of students every year.