For Trupti, ‘sustainable’ goes beyond mere resources, materials and technologies to encompass the cultural and social aspects as well. Human beings’ sense of belonging to the earth, of being but a part of it, dependent on it, thriving in it and the immediate surrounding ecosystem and thereby bound by a promise to always strive to balance and complete it is a mandate well-articulated in her designs. To put in Trupti’s own words, what the world needs today is “not just the ‘green’ eyewash” of introducing external technologies to make buildings smart but inherently intelligent buildings. Sharanam has floor, walls and vaulted roof made of unfired bricks which, among other virtues, respond to sound so sensitively that perfect audibility of sound can be ensured at every corner of the main hall, totally doing away with the use of a microphone. When the violinist and orchestrator, Paul Peabody of Titanic fame, heard about this building on his India trip, he journeyed down from Varanasi to experience the acoustics by personally playing his violin there, after which he is said to have remarked that he could feel the earth surround him from top to bottom and hear him play. Could one really ask for a greater endorsement of one’s creation?