Indian Institute Of Gemology

Our place is located at 10980 on East Park Road in Karol Bagh. It is a busy area with a lot of shops and people moving around all day long. We spend most of our time here looking at stones and teaching people how to tell one gem from another. It is very detailed work and you have to have a lot of patience for it. The building is an older one, so the lights sometimes flicker when the heavy machinery in the shop next door starts up. We have a few old wooden desks and some microscopes that we have used for years. It is a quiet atmosphere for the most part because everyone is concentrating on what they are looking at. We get students coming in from all over, and sometimes they bring their own samples to show us. We aren't fancy and we don't have a big reception area with a coffee machine. Usually, we just sit around the main table and talk about what we found that day. It feels like a small family here more than anything else. Sometimes the dust from the street gets in, so we are always wiping down the glass cases. It is just the way things are in Karol Bagh. We like being here because it feels like we are part of the local history.