Category: Place

Kaaya Learning Centre sits within the hospitality sector by necessity — there is a physical site to maintain and a market-based system to cover expenses. People are drawn here for an experience that is genuinely different from a conventional retreat or resort. But not every visitor arrives ready to engage with that difference. Some want…

The incentive to farm has been steadily declining, particularly for small farmers. Whether it’s the monkey menace, the unpredictability of monsoons, or the meagre returns on real effort — somehow, the risks and incentives around farming have become deeply unbalanced. Many farmers in our neighbourhood have had little choice but to abandon agriculture, sell land,…

To live, do, and rejuvenate Kaaya defines its neighbourhood as a watershed — nine villages, with their people, land, forest, flora and fauna, and water bodies. For Kaaya, this watershed is the real learning ground: the space within which we try to take responsibility for sustainable living, rather than simply practising it within our own…

In the larger pursuit of “development and growth,” many of us tend to lose our connection with nature, self, family, community, and the neighbourhoods. Somehow, we seem to forget that it is our immediate environment — the people, their habitat, soil, water, air, trees — that sustains us and nurtures life. Kaaya evolved out of…