I don’t believe in concept’ says Anjalendran. He believes that the purpose of architecture is to lift the human spirit. This statement strikes me as a powerful and an apt one especially in a war-ravaged country like his where peace has only recently been restored and is prized and cherished. I saw a video of the R & B singer John Legend’s commencement address to the 2009 graduates at UPenn in which he described the soul music he creates as ‘music that is about authenticity’. The same description can be applied to Anjalendran’s architecture which can be called ‘soulful architecture