Human communication is such a tedious process. Informing a group of seven people about tomorrow’s site visit is such a complicated thing to do. It’s more than just ‘message sent’ as in a sms. It goes much deeper than that. There are psychological consequences- introducing the theory of what I call- ‘she-felt-bad’. When members of a group are to be informed of a program tomorrow, they have to be made to feel like they are desperately needed; they should feel like they were the first ones to be informed. The concept of ‘forgetting’ is unforgivable. That of assumption is even worse. “I thought it will be too far for you to come.” “I thought you might be too busy to make it.” Who’s asking you to decide if I can come or not?! That’s MY job- yours is to inform me of the program. It’s worse when you’re trying to fix a program altogether. Why is it so difficult for people to agree on one thing? It’s never instinctive; it all has to be pre-decided.

The more you sleep, the sleepier you get during the day. Honestly. Sleep less during the entire semester, and you’re fine- except for dark circles and a lower level of concentration. But sleep for 10hrs immediately after that, and you’re gonna be sleepy the whole of the next day.

I get very irritated when people say things like—“ Hey I’m too busy, I cannot come..”, “I’m too tired because I rode 15kms today”, “It’s too far”, “I’m all stressed out cause I had an exam today and I slept only six hours..”. only six hours?? Do you know how long six hours of sleep is?? All these jobless engineering students go around saying “Hey I have lots of work- I have to write the record..” What in heaven’s name?? How long does writing a record take after all?? Three hours max?? That’s like nothing at all!! Try living an architect’s life..!

I love the primary schools in the rural areas of India...they have a portico running the length of the building, housing classrooms in a row...I love the columns- painted in the tri-colour...There are paintings of the national bird and animal.. You can see the bell hanging at the end of the corridor..Why can’t urban schools be like this? Why do they have to look like IT offices with glass facades and have abstract and designer murals on the walls? Why can’t the walls be painted with the Indian tri-colour? Why is there no verandah-like space in front of the classrooms? Why are corridors so concealed and darkly lit? It’s what we call progress.