ABSTRACT
Widely regarded as India’s leading conservationist, Nalini Thakur hails from Madras (now Chennai) and grew up in a disciplined home environment. Known for her uncompromising sense of purpose, Thakur found her calling as a conservationist in the 1970s when she moved from Madras to New Delhi to study architecture and was awed by the Mughal and British buildings in the capital. One of the primary reasons for coming to the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi, to pursue architecture was that she could not get admission to Anna University in Chennai, which was thus a blessing in disguise.
