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We often underestimate the projects we do early in our careers. They sit in portfolios as milestones, but their real value becomes clear only with time. In 2016, my colleagues and I presented our research at the World Sustainable Energy Days (WSED) in Austria. The paper focused on improving energy efficiency in hospitals through planning and design, using a case study of Tarachand Hospital in Pune. At that stage, it felt like an important academic milestone.Looking back, it s

Sustainability in urban design is often discussed as an added layer. In practice, it works best when it becomes the structure itself. While working on the Jagiroad Satellite Township, a large-scale development near Guwahati, the challenge was not just to plan a new urban extension, but to do so in a way that responded to the site’s ecological systems and long-term environmental performance. The site presented a complex natural framework, drainage patterns, water systems, and

Smart City projects are often framed around technology, infrastructure, and efficiency. But in practice, they reveal something far more fundamental about how cities are shaped, not just through design, but through alignment. While working on a Mangalore Smart City proposal, one of the key realisations was that the complexity of such projects rarely lies in technical solutions alone. The real challenge lies in bringing together multiple stakeholders with different priorities,