Ria International

Ria International is located at No. 24/1, in a building called Sri Lakshmi Bhavanam. It is right on Thiruvalluvar Street in S.S. Colony. The name sounds like it might be a big corporate office, but we are actually quite grounded here. S.S. Colony is a decent enough neighborhood, and our street is usually filled with the typical sounds of the city—scooters buzzing by and neighbors talking. The building, Sri Lakshmi Bhavanam, has a bit of character to it. We share the space with other things, I suppose. Inside, we have our desks and some files. We do international work, which mostly means we spend a lot of time on the phone or the computer, dealing with people in different time zones. It gets a bit quiet in the afternoons when the sun is really hitting the front of the building. We do not have fancy art on the walls or a coffee machine that makes lattes. It is mostly just us doing our daily tasks. Thiruvalluvar Street is easy to find if you know the main landmarks in the colony. We have been at this address for a bit, and we have seen shops come and go around us. It is a steady kind of life. We keep the door open most of the time to catch a breeze, even though the street noise comes in with it. It is just how we operate at No. 24/1, staying busy without making too much of a fuss about it.