ABSTRACT
Namita Singh is a very well-known Chandigarh-based architect who was born in Ferozepure, India. She comes from a highly educated background; her maternal grandmother taught herself till tenth standard and her mother had a master’s degree in arts. Her grandmother became her role model, as she had voiced her injustice at being married to a widower at a very young age and hence she made it a point to educate her daughter, Singh’s mother.1 Her father was a civil engineer and mother a lecturer in Lahore. Singh was the oldest daughter among four sisters and her maiden name was Agnihotri. Her parents brought her up to be a thinking person. Her father was posted in Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947. Her newly married parents had to flee to India as part of a five-mile-long caravan of people after leaving all their belongings behind. Singh remembers growing up listening to tragic horror stories.
