"Charles Correa was a rare person, special and unusual. I was privileged to have known him and his wife, Monika, a textile master, from the time I was a young teenager, impressionable and curious, eager to reach out to men and women whose creativity, ideas and imaginative alternatives excited me to extend myself beyond the rigidity of going with the herd and to break away from doing what was expected of young people graduating from school.


Charles was one such 'hero' in my life. He remained an extraordinary individual, intellectually alive and sharp, right up until the last conversation that I had with him a couple of months ago, on the telephone, where we were discussing the restoration of one of his buildings in Jaipur."

Malvika Singh on Charles Correa. Read