J Rathi & Associates

If you’re looking for J Rathi & Associates, you’ll find us at unit 2009 in the Padmavati Textile Market. We’re right on Ring Road, which anyone in Surat can tell you is a pretty hectic place to be. We are quite close to Sahara Darwaja, so there’s always a lot of movement outside our windows. The office itself is tucked away on one of the higher floors. It’s a bit of a maze in this building sometimes, but once you find your way to 2009, it’s a fairly quiet space compared to the street. We’ve got a few desks and a lot of paperwork that seems to grow every week. To be honest, we don't spend much time worrying about how the office looks to outsiders. It’s more about having a place to sit down and focus. We see the same faces every day in the hallways—other business owners and workers just trying to make it through their lists. The afternoon sun hits our side of the building pretty hard, so we usually have the blinds halfway down. It’s not the most modern building in the world, but it works for what we need. We’ve been here long enough that the security guards know us by name. It’s just a standard, hardworking environment where the coffee is usually cold by the time we remember to drink it. That’s our daily reality here in Padmavati Market.