Ama Kutir – A Village Retreat in the Hills of Mayurbhanj

Sharing the fields, hills, and slow rhythms of village life with the world

Ama Kutir – A Village Retreat in the Hills of Mayurbhanj

Sharing the fields, hills, and slow rhythms of my roots with the world.

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  • Memories

    ~ Echoes of fields, fairs, and a river that flows on When I think back to my earliest winters in Jambani, my ancestral village, it is always around Makar Sankranti, the festival that marks both the end of harvest and the beginning of celebration. For farming families, it is the season of reward, when the…

  • The Rhythm

    ~ Seasons at Ama Kutir Ama Kutir stands near Rairangpur, in northern Mayurbhanj, surrounded by 135 villages. One of them, Jambani, is my ancestral village and the home of Ama Kutir. This is a land that moves gently with the seasons. Forests, rivers, fields, and festivals follow their own rhythm here, a cycle as old…

  • Mayurbhanj: The Hidden Kingdom of Forests and Hills

    Ama Kutir (Our House) aims to be a quiet retreat and a first-hand experience of village life, wrapped in comfort, for the modern urban traveller and families. But no kutir exists in isolation as it draws its meaning from the land around it. And here, that land is Mayurbhanj, Odisha’s hidden kingdom. The name itself…

  • Back to the Roots

    Ama Kutir – A Village Retreat (Coming Soon) When I began building this house in Jambani, Mayurbhanj, it was never meant to be a homestay. It was simply a way to go back to my roots, to reclaim ancestral land and let it come alive again. The house stands beside our old ancestral home near…