The Router School

You can find us in Azad Nagar, Kothrud, right where Mr. M. S. Chakre is located. Kothrud is a busy part of Pune, but our little corner is a bit more tucked away. The space is filled with a lot of technical equipment, so there are cables and wires running along the walls in some places. It is not the most beautiful office you will ever see, but it works for what we do. We have several rows of desks with old monitors and routers sitting on them. The air always smells a bit like warm electronics and dust. We don't have a cleaning crew that comes in every night, so we usually end up doing the tidying ourselves. Sometimes the internet connection acts up, which is ironic considering what we do here, but we usually figure it out. There is a small balcony where we go to get some air when the room gets too stuffy. Most of the people who come here are just regular folks looking to learn about networking. We don't have any corporate branding or fancy logos on the walls. It is mostly just whiteboards covered in diagrams that look like scribbles to anyone else. Mr. Chakre is often around, and the whole place has a very local, informal feel to it. We just show up, turn on the machines, and get to work without worrying about how things look to outsiders.