Barring chocolates and souvenirs, something that most Indians return with from a trip abroad is a sense of amazement - at how they keep their toilets so clean. And the natural corollary - why we can't do the same. "What is fundamentally wrong with our toilets is the way we think about them. We look at them as something dirty and treat them like garbage dumps. There is a social stigma attached to them, which then affects their upkeep," says Mayuri Sisodia, who co-founded Mad(e) in Mumbai, a design studio involved with architecture, interiors and landscapes, with fellow architect and urbanist Kalpit Ashar.

Kalpit Ashar and Mayuri Sisodia