I am an architect, educated in India, and yet my formal training never once meaningfully addressed the design and construction logic of temples. We studied modernism, materials, housing typologies, global precedents — but the architectural system that shaped the landscape I grew up in was treated as background scenery. I wandered through temples for years, drawn to their spaces without having language for what I was experiencing. I loved their proportions, their darkness, the

It was evening, and the ceiling fan above was doing its best impression of a lazy government clerk — making the rounds slowly, without...

A personal journey, a thesis, a mirror. I’ve written some notes. Which turned out into a small book! Not in the traditional way. Not...