G. Shankar East is an architect from Kerala, India. A master mason and people’s architect, G Shankar has been relentlessly engaged in bringing about social development through architecture. He founded the habitat technology group in 1987, which became the largest NGO in the shelter sector in South Asia. Being an advocate of cost effective, eco-friendly and sustainable building technologies, he has been heading several mass building projects including townships planned and built following calamities and redevelopment of slums.