Premji Lalji Gala Foundation

Our office for the Premji Lalji Gala Foundation is in Vile Parle East. We are up on the fifth floor of Siddhi Deep CHS Ltd, specifically in room 501. The building is located on Mahant Road, which is a fairly well-known street in this part of Mumbai. Vile Parle has a very specific feel to it, very suburban and busy with local markets nearby. The building itself is a standard cooperative housing society so we have to follow the usual rules about visitors and noise. Our space is quite compact and filled with cabinets for all the records we have to keep. We’ve been in this spot for a while now and the neighbors all know us. There is a small window that looks out over the rooftops of the other buildings in the area. It can get quite warm in the summer months so we have a couple of ceiling fans going full speed. We don’t have any professional decorators coming in to fix the place up. It is just a functional room with some sturdy tables and chairs. Most of our work involves sitting at these desks and going through documents. It’s a quiet environment for the most part, which helps us focus. We usually bring our own tiffin for lunch and eat right at our desks. It’s a simple life here at Siddhi Deep and we like the convenience of being in this neighborhood.