The amount of building work that is being done in the country today is something that gladdens every architect’s heart. But what is less gladdening is the fact that our entire system of building organisation is not yet geared to dealing with all this rush of new work. Before Independence, the kind of work the Government was called upon to deal with was more or less limited to such things as roads, post offices, railways, Government housing, etc. Plans for these were inclined to be standardised, and their execution could be entrusted to a specially set-up organisation.
"A Plea for Freedom." In Seminar On Architecture, edited by Achyut P. Kanvinde, 43-47. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1959.