I am an Architect. Or AM I?

"Don’t get surprised if next time you travel in Kolkata in a metro, standing with heavy bags somehow holding the suspended hangers and a stranger sitting in front of you in her seat offers her lap for your baggage!" So back in Kolkata I was earning the second least amount in my batch. And the worst part of all? They didn't even pay me my last month’s stipend! A small suggestion to all my juniors out there -whatever it is never feel ashamed of asking what you really deserve. You always get what you ask for!  So it is pretty clear that my office experience in Kolkata wasn’t that good at all. But that never stopped me from exploring this great city. Being an Architect the most important thing you need is INSPIRATION. Never miss a chance to get inspired. But there is a fine line between getting inspired from a building and stealing. Well, we’ll come to that later!  And so I travelled! I travelled every corner of Kolkata. Some places I went with my relatives and to ...

My name is Antara, by profession-an architect(with a  licence ;)  ), age-  somewhere in the middle of where everybody wants to write a blog, become pensive and share it with the world, DoB-a cusp-born and a true Arian at heart, this, is my first blog, so please cut me some slack and don’t expect any refined write-ups! I am not a writer nor am I very fond of writing, although, somehow I think writing blogs will keep me inspired and remind me what I want to become and not what I am becoming gradually into, drifting towards the money automated world.   Although I am a bong, I haven’t quite lived in Kolkata for more than 5 months, (for my training, we’ll come to that later),I am a true Kanpuria  at heart ,where I had spent more than a decade of my life,I was born in Chandigarh and spent a few years of my early childhood in Pune. I graduated from Lucknow and currently I am working as an architect in Bengaluru. That pretty much sums up my introduction. This ...