Madhu Sarin begins the conversation by describing her beginnings on her journey with architecture and the subsequent phases. From a very early age, she was clear that she wanted to pursue a professional degree after she observed that only a professional degree would allow her to stand independently. She goes into detail on the other factors that led to her choosing architecture. Talking about her college days, she goes on in detail about her performance, competitive projects, and being one of the few women in her class. She describes the time she got selected to pursue a program abroad, where she immersed herself in the culture and architecture of Italy and stayed behind to pursue a job. She goes into the experiences she had during the time as she traveled, met new people, and made her living in a new country for the first time. She further pursued a postgraduate degree at the now Development Planning Unit, under the University College London (UCL), and went on to join them as a research scholar and teacher.  Subsequently, she received a research grant to undertake a study on Chandigarh’s planning, which led to her writing a book titled “Urban Planning in the Third World”, after putting in two years of fieldwork on it. This led her to move on from architectural planning to developing an interest in and focus on rural development and sustainable resource management. Moreover, she set up the Village Resources Management Society in an initiative of undertaking projects of larger environmental issues. She describes her learnings, challenges, the core people involved from the widely recognized Sukhomajri initiative from the 1980s, and the Ford Foundation involvement. She details and draws a timeline of her involvement and talks about the time she stood as a member of the drafting committee of the initiative. She concludes by drawing from her experiences of shifting pathways from architecture to environmental management, people’s rights over natural resources, and the recent developments in her journey.