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00:03 So the Bhoja House is my ancestral house,
00:19 built by my great-great-grandfather in 1894.
00:24 It's been with the family ever since.
00:25 And as a child, I made a lot of visits to this house.
00:29 In 2001, a big earthquake struck Bhoja,
00:31 and this house sustained quite severe damage.
00:33 After which, we decided to renovate the entire house
00:37 and create a small homestay, which is now the Bhoja House.
00:40 While we were confident that it should work as a homestay,
00:47 rather than just sort of carving up the whole house,
00:49 we wanted to really keep some of the key elements,
00:51 especially the original parts of the house,
00:54 very much in their original form.
00:56 We've also tried to retain the character of the house
00:58 as much as possible, using the old elements,
01:00 like the wooden trellises, using lime, where we could use lime.
01:04 The floor, we tried to retain the old style in the floor.
01:06 We tried to retain the old style in the roof.
01:10 We've wanted to bring in elements which
01:12 really speak for Kutch today.
01:14 So that's the use of the textiles, which
01:16 is what Kutch is so famous for now,
01:18 and what we want to keep that memory that the Parsis thrived
01:21 here once.
01:22 That's what we really want to do by retaining the house here
01:25 and keeping the house alive.
01:27 But we want it to very much be a celebration
01:29 of what Kutch is today.
01:31 We feel this is just the beginning.
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