Caltron Micro Systems

Our place, Caltron Micro Systems, is in the basement at A-201 in Lajpat Nagar-I. If you know where Kangra Sweets is, we are right there near it. Working in a basement means you don’t see much of the sun during the day, but it stays a bit cooler. We have desks piled up with computer parts and motherboards. Most of the time there's a soldering iron heating up somewhere. It’s a bit cramped with all the boxes of cables and old monitors we keep for spare parts. People from the neighborhood drop off their laptops when they stop working or get too slow. We spend a lot of time staring at tiny screws and trying to figure out why a fan is making noise. The shop smells a bit like ozone and old plastic. It’s just how it is. Sometimes I go upstairs to grab a snack from the sweets shop when the work gets frustrating. We’ve had this spot for a good while. It's not a big corporate setup, just a practical workshop where things actually get fixed. You might have to step over a few boxes to get to the counter. Usually, the radio is playing softly in the background. We keep a log of all the repairs in a big messy notebook on the desk. That’s pretty much what our day looks like down here. The basement can be quiet, but there's always plenty to do.