Built the old way
Architecture
Carved wooden brackets, slate roofs, blue-painted doors and stone walls raised without cement — the old Kumaoni building craft, still standing across the village. A close look at homes made by hand.
All of ExploreA pahadi home is built to argue with the weather and win — thick stone walls, slate roofs that shrug off snow, carved deodar windows, a courtyard angled to catch the low winter sun.
Look closely at the old houses of Kunja and you read a century of how these hills taught people to live in them.
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Photographs by Manohar Negi, made across 34+ years and counting in and around Kunja.