Work experience at Anjalendran’s office consists of more than producing a set of design and working drawings or visiting sites. Several vernacular buildings and landscapes of Sri Lanka have been documented by staff from his office. During my internship and stay in Sri Lanka I was introduced to the joy and honor of being lent signed first editions from his library. The writings on art, heritage, history and fiction from the Island, writers such as Ananda Coomaraswamy, Michael Ondaatje, Gopal Gandhi and writers from the west — Hermann Hesse and Richard Bach amongst others.