Bhushan Motor Driving School

Teaching people how to drive in Pune is an adventure, to say the least. I run Bhushan Motor Driving School over in Kothrud. We are based in Ideal Colony, right near the Harsh Hotel. If you know the area, you know how the traffic can get. I started this because I saw so many people struggling to learn the basics of the clutch and the gears. We have a couple of small cars that we use for the lessons. Most of my day is spent in the passenger seat, hitting the extra brake pedal when someone gets a bit too nervous near a bus. It’s a lot of patience. Kothrud has some narrow lanes and some very busy junctions, which is good practice for the students. We start early in the morning when the roads are a bit quieter. I’ve taught all kinds of people, from teenagers who can’t wait to get their license to older folks who finally decided they needed to drive themselves around. The office is just a small room where we keep the forms and the schedules. I’m usually out on the road anyway. It’s funny seeing the look on someone’s face when they finally park perfectly for the first time. We don't have a big marketing team. People just see our cars around or hear about us from their neighbors. It’s a simple business, one gear at a time, and we just keep moving through the traffic.