This time when I stepped on the landing of my home floor I did not ring the bell. The thud of the latch and the click of the lock, directed me to the chimera of living room. For all it was neat and too perfect to bear. It smelled unsullied. Threw my bag on the…
Category: Ritwik
KATTA. A testimony.
Public spaces. What are public spaces? Let’s re frame this. What makes a space Public? For me, an Ideal Public Space is the one where each individual of each age group has a scope of contribution. Right from the ancient times, city planners have been striving to balance movement of humans and urban/public spaces. From…
Identity crisis.
Over the last year people around me have failed to judge what I have really gotten myself into. Some have gone to the depths of “O, toh Architecture banne wale ho. Wahi log na jo nakshe banate hai? Are gharon ke nakshe!” I feel that it deserves a little more justice. Once you have opted…
A Realization.
A couple of days ago, when me and my mom were on a cleaning drive at home, I accidentally found two large suitcases full of letters. Letters from far away friends, family and millions of them from dad. There were literally hundreds of them. I was awed and this somehow then got followed into very…
People
Your know you are an architecture student when you’re measuring the school’s step height for some reference, and a guy walks by saying “18.5 cm.” You know the importance of every mm. You always ask “AM or PM” when people tell you about time.“I’m going to finish this model by 5!” “AM or PM?” “Shit!…