Winning Stroke: Interview with Rahul Shankhwalker, Founding Partner, Studio HBA

1. If not in the current profession, you would be?

If not an architect, I would have been a chef.

2. One tune you always hum.

Too many!

I love to whistle while I work and my colleague has to shut me up, but my favorite is ‘Bridge over troubled water’.

3. One book to read when you want to motivate yourselves.

I like to read books that distract me and transport me to a world of my own imagination. This often helps me relax and bring me back to shape. I love ‘Love 100 years of Solitude’ by Gabriel García Márquez.

4. One dialogue of a movie that motivates you or you like the most.

There is none really.

5. The place you never been to and always want to go?

Definitely Antarctica!

6. Luck or Hard Work, what do you think weighs more in defining a successful person?

Hard work.

7. One best decision you ever made.

To be a dad.

8. A strategy that you always use to take your decisions in Personal or Professional life?

Patience.

9. Whose advise you seek when in dilemma?

My brother, Raya Shankhwalker.

10. What has been your biggest achievement?

It is yet to come.

11. One thing that you want to change in yourself?

Make time to do all those things I want to do and never get down to doing.