Praveen Dutta & Co, Chartered Accountant

Praveen Dutta & Co has been running out of House No.369 in Sector 9 of R.K.Puram for a while. It’s a residential part of New Delhi, so it’s fairly quiet compared to the main commercial hubs. Having the office in a house makes it feel more relaxed, though we are still very much buried in work most of the time. As chartered accountants, our days are filled with numbers, audits, and making sure all the tax stuff is filed on time. It’s a lot of boring but necessary work that most people don’t want to deal with themselves. The office space is pretty functional—desks, chairs, a couple of computers, and lots of folders everywhere. We don’t have any big corporate slogans or anything like that. We just sit down and get through the pile of documents on the desk. People from around R.K.Puram usually just drop by when they need help with their returns. We try to keep things as uncomplicated as possible for them. Sometimes the tea runs out and we have to send someone to the market nearby, but usually, it’s just the sound of typing and paper shuffling. It’s a small operation, and we like it that way because we can actually talk to the people who come in. There isn't any hidden agenda, just standard accounting work done by regular people who know their way around a balance sheet.