A paper automaton that Bharadwaj has created the pop-out house that we tried a hand at. Pics/Ashish Raje

There's a certain trepidation with which we ask Samir Bharadwaj: do you also make paper planes? After all, to a 38-year-old graphic and paper designer, whose body of work includes a pop-up hotel for a Dubai firm made according to architectural specifications, this might be an over simplification of his art. His answer, however, puts us at ease. At one point, he says, he could make 15 different types of paper planes from just memory.