Shree Sai Datta Motor Driving School

Old Sanghvi is where we’ve set up, specifically around the 10 area. It’s a bit of a tight neighborhood, which actually makes it a decent place to start teaching people how to handle a car. If you can drive through these local streets without hitting a curb, you can probably drive anywhere in Pune. Our office is a simple place where we keep the schedules and the keys. There’s usually a calendar on the wall with names scribbled in different colors for the morning and evening batches. It’s not very high-tech at all. We mostly talk to people face-to-face or over a quick phone call while we are out on a lesson. The cars get a lot of wear and tear, so there’s always something to fix, whether it’s a loose mirror or a clutch that’s been worked too hard by a beginner. We spend a lot of time repeating the same instructions about looking over the shoulder and using the indicators properly before making a move. It’s a slow process for everyone. Some people pick it up in a week, and others take a month, and that’s perfectly fine with us. We just sit there in the passenger seat, keeping an eye on the pedals on our side just in case something goes wrong. It’s a basic life, really. We see the same shops and the same corners every single day we are out. Most people from the neighborhood know the car by now and just wave as we go past slowly.