Mahatma Gandhi Hindi High School

Mahatma Gandhi Hindi High School in Airoli. It's on the Thane Belapur Road. If you know that road, you know how busy it stays with all the trucks and cars passing by. We have a lot of students from the local area who speak Hindi at home. The school itself is a solid building, nothing fancy but it works for what we need. We have the usual blackboards and wooden benches. In the mornings, you can hear the kids reciting their lessons all the way from the street. Navi Mumbai has changed a lot, but this corner of Airoli feels the same to us. We spend a lot of time organizing the registers and making sure the classrooms are swept. There’s a small space where students gather during the break to eat their tiffins. It gets quite noisy then. We don’t have a massive budget for decorations, so the walls just have a few maps and charts made by the teachers. The staff room is small and usually smells like lunch boxes and old paper. We just do our work here every day. It’s about getting the children to pass their tests and understand their books. Most of our students come from families working nearby. We see the same faces every day at the gate. It's just a regular Hindi medium school trying to keep things running smoothly despite the traffic outside. We keep the doors open for everyone who wants to come and study with us.