Shree Kalyan Sangeet Vidyalaya

We are over in Dadar East at the Ranjit Studio area. It’s a pretty famous spot on Dada Saheb Phadke Road if you know the neighborhood. We are tucked away in D Block. Shree Kalyan Sangeet Vidyalaya isn’t a huge institute with marble floors or anything like that. It’s mostly just rooms where the sound of harmoniums and tablas fills the air from morning until the sun goes down. Students come in after school or work, some carrying their instruments and others just coming to learn the basics. The street outside is always packed with people and vendors, so it gets noisy, but once you start playing, you don't notice it much. We have been teaching here for years. The walls have some old photos of performances and some charts for the scales. It’s a bit dusty because the windows stay open for air, but we like it that way. It feels real. Sometimes we sit out in the hallway for a break and watch the studio people move their equipment around. It’s a busy life in Dadar. We don’t have a big marketing team or a fancy website. Most people find us because they heard a neighbor’s kid playing better or they just walked past and liked the sound. It’s about the music and the practice, not about being the biggest school in Mumbai. We just want to keep the traditions going one student at a time.