"Unlike the monumental scale of India's Heroic Modernism, both local and foreign, Abin Design Studio's interventions are strategic and prove Nehru wrong: smaller, and even temporary structures can hit you on the head and 'make you think'."

- Manon Mollard, Editor, The Architectural Review

This monograph is structured to unfold not just the narrative of built works but also the processes, influences, and ideologies that underpin them. It opens with an introduction by Praveen Bavdekar, situating ADS within the broader discourse of contemporary Indian architecture. A candid conversation between Abin Chaudhuri and architect Shimul Javeri Kadri further illuminates the tensions and aspirations that drive the studio's practice. Through these reflections, we begin to understand ADS not as a monolithic entity, but as an evolving organism, responding to the complexities of the Indian urban and social fabric.