Shetty, Prasad, Kunjan Garg, Biju Kuriakose, Prem Chandawarkar, and Arunav Dasgupta. Participant Comments after the Meeting In Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities - A panel discussion held at the annual conference of the National Association of Students of Architecture at Kochi, Edited by Nirmal Kulkarni. INDES, 2018.

Questions which were discussed at the conference are: What were the loopholes because of which the Hall of Nations got legal sanction for demolition? Should the Hall of Nations be rebuilt? What defines good architecture and there any empirical measures which can be stated? What are the perceptions and implications of the term ‘Heritage’? Can policy be enacted to earmark public buildings for posterity, even during its ‘just executed’ stage? Following are excerpts from the conference opined by the participants in their own words.