Like the springing of a large tree from a small seed, I see this journey of discovery of water-sources and re-discovery of the bond between humans and geography, geology and technology as springing from a child’s heart. Ar.Yeshwanth Ramammurty Sir, through his adventures with this work, has rightly as a mentor does, demonstrated through action
The piano Tuners of India December 31, 2023 About six years ago, one fine morning there was a knock at our office door. There was a girl who had walked in to our office. She was very humble, soft-spoken but had a very strong determination about what she wanted to be. And after about one
Born and brought up in Kaliyapuram – a small village at the foothills of the western ghats closer to Topslip in Tamilnadu, a little boy spent most of his childhood with his grandparents in a small hut on their farm. The water that was produced from the Sarkarvari hydroelectric project passed through their field. Most
In the first impressions of the Dargah Precinct, the elements of the place came to life and role-played as characters, thus making way to this study. The research is a compilation of experiences and documentation of precinct of a Dargah located in Hyderabad. It started as a Hyderabadi’s explorationof her city, underpinned by an architect’s
‘It is difficult to remember Doshi with any sadness. He had such a wonderful sense of life. Two months ago before Doshi died, Doshi would invite me to his place and both of them would sit in the garden. Though he was very weak, we would spend about half an hour in the garden.
One day I remember, a leaf fell from the tree ..and as it was falling, it was twirling…and fell on the grass..And Doshi said something, very very unexpected..’Can we sense, what the leaf might have been feeling about the two of us sitting here? What might be the leaf’s perception of us? And that ability to transport himself into other beings was something that helped him absorb life and make his architecture such that, it could take place in such vigour, but it also allowed him to make institutions like CEPT.’
