Chanakya Academy

If you find yourself in Dr Mukherjee Nagar, you’ll likely see how many students are around every corner. We are right in the thick of it at number 642. Our rooms are on the second floor, directly above Aggarwal Sweets. You can usually smell the fried snacks and sweets coming up the stairs, which is quite nice but can make you hungry during a long afternoon. Being near Batra Cinema means there is always a crowd outside, especially when a new movie comes out. It’s a noisy part of Delhi, but we’ve gotten used to it over the years. We didn’t set this up to be some big corporate office. It’s just a place with enough chairs and tables for everyone to sit and study. We spend our days looking over notes and talking to people about their exams. The stairs are a bit steep, so we tell everyone to be careful coming up. We don't have fancy air conditioning in every single corner, just some fans that hum along while we work. It’s a bit of a squeeze when a big group comes in, but we manage. We aren’t interested in making everything look perfect. We just want the books to be right and the students to understand what they are reading. It’s a busy, dusty, and loud part of the city, but we like being right here where all the action is.