Dev Sharma Classes

Down near Ajmeri Gate, at 4056/202, you’ll find the rooms where we run Dev Sharma Classes. It’s a very old part of the city, so the streets are narrow and always packed with people and carts. Our space is up a flight of stairs that are a bit steep and uneven. Inside, it’s mostly just rows of old wooden benches and a few fans that creak when they're on high speed. I’ve spent a lot of years in this room. The walls are covered in old posters that have faded over time. It gets very hot in the summer, but we just open the windows and deal with the noise from the market below. Teaching here is different because of the energy of Ajmeri Gate. You can't really escape the city's pulse. I spend my mornings preparing notes and my evenings talking until my throat is dry. We don’t have a website or any of that modern stuff; people just find us by looking at the sign on the building or hearing about us from a cousin. It’s a very simple operation. I carry my own chalk and duster, and I make sure the water pot is filled every day. Sometimes the power goes out, and we just keep talking in the dark until it comes back. It’s just how things are done here, and we don’t really think twice about it. We just focus on the books and the students.