Indian Institute Of Human Rights

The Indian Institute Of Human Rights is based in Rony Apartment. We are up on the 4th Floor at 151, Shyamnagar Road. This is in the Kolkata-700055 area. It’s a bit of a walk up if the lift is acting up, which happens now and then. The office has several rooms filled with books and various papers. It’s a bit cramped because we have so much material stored away in cabinets and on shelves. We’ve been in this apartment for a long time. It feels more like a home than a school or an institute sometimes. We have a small staff and we all know each other well. There are no corporate uniforms or strict rules about how we sit. We just focus on the documents and the work at hand. Shyamnagar Road is always busy, and you can hear the horns honking from the fourth floor. It’s just part of the background noise now. We don't have a lot of fancy technology. Most of what we do is done on older computers or by hand. It’s a very basic setup, but it works for us. We aren't trying to be the most modern place in the world. We just want to be here on Shyamnagar Road, doing our daily tasks and keeping the records straight. It’s a lived-in space that smells a bit like old paper and tea. We’ve spent many years in this apartment and it suits the way we work.