Oct 2025
Restoring without erasing
How we modernised an old house without scrubbing the soul out of it.
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It's on the list — a longer, more personal piece, to be set down in Manohar's own hand. For now, here's the heart of it:
“How we modernised an old house without scrubbing the soul out of it.”
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Manohar Negi
Owner & host
Manohar grew up in these hills and never really left. A photographer by craft and a host by heart, he turned the family home at Kunja into a place to share — and most of the frames you see across this site are his.
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