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In 2012 a commerce graduate took a job as an accountant at an architect's office in Bangalore.

His name is Vijay, and the work was ledgers and reconciliations, which he turned out to be quick at. Quick enough, in fact, that he kept closing the month's books well before the month was over, until one afternoon the management asked him something that had nothing at all to do with accounts. Would he like to supervise a commercial project? He said yes.

What he found waiting for him on that site was not a love of drawings or materials, because those came along much later. It was something simpler and a good deal rarer. He was unusually good at getting people to work together, and on a site full of carpenters and electricians and painters and clients all pulling in slightly different directions, he could find the single thread that held them in line. Nobody teaches that anywhere, and he learned it standing on unfinished floors.

The years that followed were made of sites and mistakes and corrections and very long evenings, the slow accumulation of the sort of knowledge that only ever arrives once you have done a thing badly and then done it better the next time. Somewhere along the way clients began calling him Architect, and although he does not have the degree he has never quite corrected them, because after a certain point the title stopped being about paper.