After finding out concerning the unpleasant facet of building tasks as a attorney, Panta Ferrao hand over his task and went directly to create ‘Khaama Kethna’ — an eco-village nestled in Goa’s jungles.
Having spent his early life within the lap of nature, Panta Ferrao was once offered to the unpleasant facet of developmental tasks whilst running as a attorney.
To him, the environmental jeopardies had been of serious non-public worry.
To counter this, the 65-year-old hand over his company task to construct an eco-village – ‘Khaama Kethna’ – that respects nature and its rhythm.
Nestled within the forests close to Agonda seashore in Goa’s jungles, ‘Khaama Kethna’ is an try to convey again the misplaced magic of nature into city settings.
Khaama Kethna way ‘paintings of affection on land’ and symbolises the introduction of a brand new global for as of late. And it certain does are living as much as its identify!
The tree homes and the cottages listed below are built the usage of bamboo, rice husk, and straw. “Each cottage is designed to include the timber and surrounding lifestyles varieties of the jungle. Each area all the time permits nature to move thru and waft into it. This sends the message that we aren’t break free nature however moderately an integral a part of it,” he says.
Ferrao extensively utilized refurbished bamboo, and recycled scrap — from pillars and beams to rafters, window frames and discarded furnishings — to construct Khaama Kethna.
What’s much more superb is the idea that of compost bathrooms with each the compost and the greywater used to nourish timber. The bathe water drains into the lawn the place it recharges the water desk and is used for the vegetation.
This eco-village additionally hosts cultural workshops on meditation, yoga, naturopathy, carpentry, song, and a lot more. However Ferrao’s favorite factor to do is to benefit from the sundown in solitude within the lap of nature. “No quantity of city luxuries may beat the view,” he says as he cherishes his dream come true.
Watch how Panta Ferrao constructed the eco-village within the forests of Goa:
Edited through Padmashree Pande