Animesh graduated with a B.Arch degree from Delhi’s School of Planning and Architecture in 2002, and during this period he also interned at the San Francisco offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP and with the masons of award-winning Indian architect Laurie Baker on various projects in South India. Upon graduation, he spent a semester at the office of architect Ranjit Sabikhi in New Delhi, where he worked on a proposal for a new IIM campus. He joined the M.Arch Program at Cornell University’s College of Art, Architecture and Planning in 2003 and graduated in 2005. Animesh then worked for four years at the New York office of FXFowle as part of a team on various urban planning and architecture projects all over eastern United States. He returned to India in 2009 and founded, along with two other partners, the architecture practice – SALT, leading the design and execution of a wide array of institutional, commercial and residential projects all over India and overseas. In 2016, after the dissolution of SALT, Animesh founded Open to Sky – an architecture and design firm with offices in Bengaluru and Kolkata.