Beginning the conversation with a detailed family background, Parul Zaveri mentions how they came to live at their present residence, and her family’s history with Ahmedabad City, the freedom movement and Gandhiji’s son. She shares memorable anecdotes and stories from her childhood, and notes the significance of the terrace as an important space in the house and community, vital for communication and activities. She also recounts her memories of travelling to and staying in Jaipur, which had a huge influence on her, given the city’s architecture and spaces. She further comments about and details the community life at the time, how kids spent their childhoods, and the general social cultures around neighbourhoods that she cherishes till date. She describes several aspects of the Jain community, how her mother loved to travel, visiting Jain temples and the other tourist and historic places both in Ahmedabad and Jaipur. She also shares how she stayed in Jaipur for some time while recovering from an illness and how that experience went. Reflecting on these times, she notes how she perhaps had an addiction to certain built environments and that she could observe them from an early age. She also travelled to Maharashtra with her mother, and goes into detail about her various trips, the heritage and culture she witnessed, and traces signs of what would later develop into a passion for the field of architecture.