Ak'S Professional Academy

Ak’s Professional Academy is tucked away in Lokhande Colony, right behind the Samarth Theater. It’s actually at 30/31, and if you aren't looking for the sign, you might miss the entrance entirely. We aren’t a big fancy college with a campus or a cafeteria. We have a few rooms with desks and whiteboards where we sit down and go through the lessons. The area around the theater can get a bit noisy when a popular movie lets out, but we’ve gotten used to the sounds over the years. We started this place because we realized students in the neighborhood needed a quiet spot to actually learn things without all the pressure of a big school. It’s not a corporate training center. The chairs don't all match and the floor has some scuffs from years of students moving around. We spend our days preparing notes and checking over the work students have done. Sometimes we stay late when someone is stuck on a particular problem and can't figure it out. We don’t have any big slogans or fancy brochures to hand out. Most people come to us because their neighbor’s kid did well after coming here for a few months. We just try to explain things in a way that makes sense to a regular person. It’s a lot of talking and a lot of writing on the board until the light bulb goes on.