Navodaya Classes

Walchand Collage Road is always crowded with students. Our place at Ashok Chowk is right in the middle of it. You can hear the bikes and rickshaws outside all day. It gets noisy, but you get used to it after a few weeks. Navodaya Classes started because there were so many students in Solapur 413006 needing a place to sit and study together. We don't have plush chairs or air conditioning. It’s just desks, chairs, and a lot of textbooks. I spend most of my day checking notebooks and explaining the same things over again. Sometimes I wonder if the students are listening or just looking out the window at the traffic. The light in the afternoon hits the room in a weird way, so we have to move the benches around. We don’t really do any big advertising. People just find us by walking down the road or hearing about us from a neighbor. It’s a simple setup. We focus on what’s in the books and try to make sure everyone stays on track for their finals. There’s a tea stall nearby where everyone goes during the break. It feels like a small community here at Ashok Chowk. Sometimes the rains make the roof leak a bit, but we just put a bucket under it and keep going. That’s just how it is running a local place in Solapur. We aren't trying to be anything we aren't.