ABSTRACT
Neera Adarkar is a leading academician, researcher, urban activist and practitioner in the field of architecture in India. A multifaceted personality, she graduated from Sir J. J. College of Architecture in 1971 as Neera Adivarekar. She then obtained a postgraduate degree in industrial design at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in 1974. She grew up in a progressive household. Her maternal grandfather had established a school for girls in the middle-class area of Mumbai’s Girgaon. Her parents had met in the Indian National Theatre. Theirs was an intercaste marriage with no religious ceremony. Interestingly, Neera and her husband Arvind Adarkar also met when they acted together in a play in Sir J. J. College of Architecture.
