Nasana Bajracharya April 18, 2021 Comments Rabindra Puri. Photo: Nasana Bajracharya While working at the Patan Museum, Rabindra Puri used to hop from one chok (courtyard) to another. In the early 1990s, it was his daily ritual and an escape from any roadblock in his work. But, he then went to Raymond University, Germany, to pursue a master’s degree in development policies. Once graduated, he came back and returned to his old inspiration some years later–only to find several changes that he had never expected. Shocked and baffled by how much the courtyards had changed, he struggled internally to decipher the process of the destruction. Then, he decided to buy a chicken farm in Banepa and build a house for himself there. “Everyone called me crazy for buying an old farm instead of building a big house,” says Puri, sharing how his journey started to make Namuna Ghar and how the initiative transformed into Rabindra Puri Foundation that has done some remarkable works in conserving the cultural heritage of Nepal.