Amar Jyoti Vidyalay Inter College

Down here on Kirahiya Road in Lallapura, you will find our college tucked away in a very busy part of Varanasi. The streets around here are quite narrow and they are always full of people, rickshaws, and cows. The building itself is a bit cramped because we are right in the middle of such a crowded neighborhood. We have been teaching the local kids from this area for a good while now. It is a simple school without any bells and whistles. We have some classrooms, a small office for the paperwork, and a place for the staff to sit down for a minute. The walls are covered with old charts and hand-written notices that have probably been there for years. It is noisy outside with all the traffic and the local shops, but inside the rooms, we try to keep things focused on the books. We do not have a big playground for the kids, so they just hang out in the hallways or near the front entrance during their free time. It is a very local operation and most of us who work here have been doing this for decades. We know the neighbors and the people who run the shops nearby. Sometimes the dust from the road gets inside, so we are always cleaning the floors. It isn't a polished institution like the ones you see in the papers. It’s just a regular inter college for families who need a place for their children.