Hansela - Swingers

The houses of northwestern India, from Uttar Pradesh to Rajasthan, have a way to invite the outside inside. Right in the middle of the main room, the roof opens to the sky, letting in a ray of sun that pierces the heart of the building like a javelin of light. Two stories below, it splashes on the floor, bathing a pile of ripe apples. “Do you shut the roof when it rains ?” I ask the owner. “On the contrary, he answers with a smile, it is for letting in the rain that the hole is for. Every monsoon, I have my own private waterfall”