Dr. Prabjoth Kaur, nicknamed Happy in her home, recalls her childhood as one of the younger siblings in her family. She talks about the extensive support her father provided her in her middle school years while she took her first steps toward the study of architecture. She talks about her father’s placement in Jharkhand and has spent her days in Sindri until she was eight years old. Incidentally, the first architect she ever met happened to be her father’s trainee’s wife, a meeting that was arranged by her father. She recalls leaving impressed by their interactions. Moreover, she also adds how she indulged in energetic extra-curricular engagements and her passion for the army. She recollects impressions, interactions, and challenges she faced in the first few years of joining architecture school. Upon graduating, she soon slipped into stressful times of having to multi-manage her role as a new mother and practitioner, along with a stringent work schedule. Stepping into the ‘social-work’ environment as a woman architect, she details the challenges she faced. On taking up a position with Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA), she speaks of her sudden restlessness with having to give up her long-sought-after practice and how she eventually began to enjoy teaching. She soon did her PG dissertation on the drawbacks of architecture education and mentions the flak she drew for it from the higher-ups. She further shares her findings and her struggles with them. Subsequently, she went on to pursue her PhD. and shares her learnings from her class interactions up till that point, along with her findings from her PhD research. The hypothesis of her research states that there exists a yawning gap between education and practice and goes on to present ways to fulfill these gaps. 

Furthermore, she explains the role she has aspired to in order to fulfill responsibilities as a woman architect and an academician. She talks about why women architects find it challenging to go on and settle for teaching, and notes how she has had a satisfying career and is retiring soon. She puts up a case for mid-level exit in education for the Council of Architecture to consider and its relevance to women, along with inculcating design courses early in school. She closes by discussing how architectural education is lacking and requires reform in its system and curriculum.