N Shiva Rao Co Finace Tax Consultant

If you look for Room No 2 in Jadhav Chawl, right behind Durga Hospital in Kalina, you will find N Shiva Rao Co Finace Tax Consultant. This is Santacruz East, so as you can imagine, it is always very hectic and loud outside. Being in a chawl means we are right in the thick of things. The office is small, packed with folders, ledgers, and stacks of tax forms that seem to never end. There is a small fan that works hard to keep the Mumbai humidity away, but it’s a losing battle most days. We don't have a fancy suite in a glass building. It’s just a room where we sit and crunch numbers. People come in from the hospital area or the local shops because they know we are here. It’s a lot of manual work, checking entries and making sure the government forms are right. We drink a lot of cutting chai from the stall downstairs while we work through the piles of paper. It’s a very grounded way to work. You hear everything from the street—cars honking, people talking, the general buzz of Kalina. We don't have a marketing department or anything like that. Word of mouth is how people find us. It’s just how things are done in this part of Mumbai. We stay late during tax season, under the tubelight, just trying to get the figures to match up so we can finally go home.