The session begins with detailed accounts of setting up their own practice in India, after returning in 1979. One important project they worked on was on building emergency shelters, during the Morbi floods. Using tin sheets for roof purposes and other resources available in disaster management measures, Nimish Patel and Parul Zaveri began working on this project. She then recalls looking for office spaces, being involved with her mother-in-law’s work, and gaining a renovation and refurbishing project through her brother-in-law. She provides details of the latter project, and how she designed the interior spaces of the place. Upon meeting B V Doshi as well, she recalls how Nimish was offered a job opportunity by him and kept on describing the different projects they kept getting through their network, varied in project typologies, and focused on pro-bono opportunities as well. She shares comments on education and pedagogy that she believes in, which helped them design a school for which they received the JIIA Award. For this project, she recalls using materials like bamboo and other unconventional resources. Similarly, she shares fascinating experiences of her projects and then goes on to detail the journey of how Abhikram started, right from the search for its name. She notes how learning new things, innovating and researching was something that came naturally to their family since it was both their families’ legacy. Reflecting on managing the office, she remarks how Nimish Patel’s job at B V Doshi’s office helped finance their own practice as well. She concludes by sharing details of an accommodation they found and the relations that followers, along with the workshop developed.