Ekadeshma Agrocultural Centre: The startup lets you live in rural Nepal within Kathmandu

On an ordinary afternoon recently, Suraj Ghimire stood at the entrance and handed each of the visitors a stick to hold while walking along an unpaved path. Also holding a stick in his hand, he told them a story and then showed a mud house there. He asked the visitors, who were schoolchildren, to sit on the floor in the courtyard smeared with red mud, where also lied a tulasi math , a loom, a heap of hay, a kitchen garden and a lot more.

Listening to the village story, the visitors walked uphill along a narrow path to rest on a chautara (a platform made by piling stones around a tree). Then, they went to a lush ground to use a handi to make popcorns and a madani to churn curd.