Nina Chandavarkar introduces her early interests in sketching and maths, and the important role that her father played in the journey that led to her picking up architecture. She talks of how her traditional Indian family background stood in contrast to her upbringing and the encouragement she received to pursue a career of her choice. She looks back at the nurturing she and her siblings received from her father, who passed away when she was just sixteen. She recalls a particular instance when her father motivated her to write the entrance exams after a festive night, while her mother was rather indifferent. She explains the intensive work regimen she followed ever since her first job in college, during the summer that her father passed, and in later roles. She talks about how she identified an early passion in the integration of the outdoors and indoors which led her to choose the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), which taught ecological planning. She further describes the interactions, involvement, and sustained relationships she cultivated over the two years at the university. She describes her early work experiences, both good and bad, mentioning many eminent landscape architects and professors she learned from. 

She set up her own practice specializing in landscape architecture on coming back to India in 1989 and describes balancing her roles as a practitioner and new mother. Remarking on the nascent industry of landscape architecture, especially in Bangalore, she talks about the challenges and work processes she took on, bringing up instances from some of her first large-scale projects. She talks about more than a dozen projects her firm completed in Electronic City, Bangalore during the IT boom, including projects for companies like Hewlett Packard, Infosys, Wipro, etc., and similar work in Pune and Hyderabad. She talks about work done on institutional campuses, resorts, parks, and large-scale apartment complexes. On adopting sustainable work practices and technologies since the 1990s, she mentions eco-restoration, groundwater recharge, harvesting, etc. for projects. From the time she spent in Philadelphia, she talks about her experience as an Assistant to a design professor after her graduate studies and further teaching experiences. Further talking about graduate school, she describes her overall impressions of the course. She mentions her classmate Revathi Kamath and describes her strong opinions on the importance of women staying in the workforce, especially since the effects of Covid-19.