04/11/2025
This article beautifully reflects on how traditional Indian village homes were naturally pest-resistant and eco-friendly long before modern pest control existed. I tried to connects age-old wisdom with modern science, showing how these natural materials offered built-in hygiene, cooling, and pest management. It’s a nostalgic yet scientific tribute to sustainability, simplicity, and ancestral intelligence in architecture.
I spent my childhood in a small village in Dhule district, Maharashtra, in a house that looked like it had been handcrafted by Mother Earth herself. It had mud walls, an earthen and wooden roof, a floor polished weekly with cow dung, and walls painted with red ochre (which we called GERU).
