Kolkata · Chauddhachuli
The unhurried grace of elements and emotions.
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What
Everything you can do at Project Solitude.
Project Solitude
Slow living in the heart of the city, and deep in a verdant villagescape.
Project Solitude is an eclectic community space encompassing a breathing ecosystem that bridges quiet spaces, tactile craft, and genuine human connection.
Two distinct worlds come alive here. A sunlit urban retreat in charming South Kolkata and a tranquil homestead in Chauddhachuli, a sliver of quintessential rural Bengal.
We open our doors for quiet stays, intimate story circles, seasonal culinary heritage, and unhurried adda.
At a glance
Calendar
Intentional gatherings in intimate company. Tell us you’d like to join, and we’ll reserve a place for you.
3DecThu
Project Solitude Residency, Tollygunge
A first-of-its-kind story slam with raw voices and unfiltered memories shared aloud to a room that truly listens. Explore the Museum of Memories, personal heirlooms and kept trinkets from our guests, while signing up for a complimentary memory dig at the studio.
5–7DecSat–Mon
Turiyo, Chauddhachuli (2 Nights / 3 Days · Food & Stay)
Step into village time. Spend a weekend alongside local artisans, learning the delicate artistry of piping Gohona Bori, Bengal’s celebrated jewellery made of sun-dried lentils. Savour home-cooked traditional meals, immerse in forest bathing, trace village paths during the golden hour, and of course pack home a jar of your own creations.
Solitude Spaces
Two sanctuaries for inner exploration. Three rooms in the city, and an ancestral farmhouse.
The Solitude Residency
Tollygunge, Kolkata
An urban haven of high ceilings, glorious sunlight, and quiet nooks for creativity. Your base to explore the City of Joy, or host cultural, wellness or spiritual workshops in our expansive hall.
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Turiyo Residency
Chauddhachuli, rural Bengal
A rustic retreat with modern luxuries. Designed for pensive reflection, sensory village walks, and slow, seasonal living.
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Airbnb
The Residency is on Airbnb
Book your stayMemories
At the Smritis Memory Studio, we excavate and honour what usually fades. Through guided conversations and gentle reflection, personal stories are quietly transformed into tangible keepsakes: digital engrams, bottled narratives, and physical curios. No algorithms, no AI. We simply hold space.
Heritage Food
In Chauddhachuli, food is a ritual, not a routine. Learn the intricate artistry of piping Gohona Bori, and gather around communal tables for meals with vegetables from our kitchen garden, fish from a century-old pond and the freshest of village produce.
Stories
From cosy story slams and poetry readings to wellness workshops and unstructured exchanges in the spirit of adda, our spaces bring together curious minds seeking depth over noise.
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Ways to take part: join, dig, stay, or bring your own gathering.
Find one in the calendar and press I’m Interested. Leave your name, phone and email, and we’ll reserve a place for you.
Book a dig at the Smritis Memory Studio, or ask for a Memory Dig Kit to use at home.
Book the Solitude Residency on Airbnb. Check-in from 12:30 pm, check-out by 11:00 am.
Write or call us for dates at Turiyo, or come for the next Gohona Bori Experience.
Curators, facilitators and teachers: book the hall at the Residency, or Turiyo, for your workshop, circle or retreat.
Anything else? Write or call us.
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Why
The thinking behind Project Solitude, and the books on our shelf.
Our Ethos
Positioned right between a city that’s legendary for its long, winding addas and a rural landscape that embraces stillness, we help cultivate a new lifestyle for seekers. Here, we restore the forgotten luxury of unhurried hours: making by hand, remembering what matters, listening deeply, and simply doing nothing at all.
Solitude Bookshelf
Seven exquisite titles on being alone and the mechanics of memory.
David Vincent
A historian follows how people have sought, feared and practised being alone, from the eighteenth century to the age of the smartphone.
The Science and Power of Being Alone
Netta Weinstein, Heather Hansen and Thuy-vy T. Nguyen
Drawing on years of research, the authors show when time alone restores us, and how to choose solitude rather than suffer it.
The Loners’ Manifesto
Anneli Rufus
A spirited defence of loners: choosing your own company is not a flaw to be fixed, but a way of being.
A Return to the Self
Anthony Storr
A psychiatrist argues that the capacity to be alone is a mark of maturity and a source of creativity, and that relationships are not the only path to a full life.
Loneliness Was My Cage, Solitude Is My Home
Renuka Gavrani
A short, gentle guide to turning loneliness into solitude, and learning to enjoy your own company.
Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold On to What Matters
Charan Ranganath
A neuroscientist shows that memory is not built to record the past but to guide the present and the future, and why forgetting is part of the design.
The Science Behind Memory
Andrew Budson and Elizabeth Kensinger
Two memory scientists explain how memory works, why forgetting is normal, and practical ways to remember what matters.
Media
The craft, the village and the learning behind Project Solitude, as others have told it.
BBC Travel · The World’s Table · November 2023Gohona bori: India’s heritage edible ornamentA visit to Chauddhachuli to watch gohona bori being made, with Turiyo Foundation’s project and the village’s winter workshops.Read the article 
OT Eats · Outlook Traveller · September 2026Gohona Bori: How Bengal Turned Lentils Into Edible JewelleryHow the craft is made, why it is fading, and how Turiyo Foundation keeps it alive through a learning residency.Read the article 
The Cuisine Press (料理通信), Japan · June 2022Reviving “Gohona Bori”, the snack named for jewellery, by the hands of womenA Japanese food magazine on Turiyo Foundation’s project with village women in Purba Medinipur to bring gohona bori back.Read the article The Project Solitude family
Come, remember. Our memory studio: guided memory digs with a real person beside you, at the studio or at home, and keepsakes made from what surfaces. Not another AI.
Our ancestral farmhouse in Chauddhachuli, Purba Medinipur, home to the family for nine generations. A rustic retreat with modern luxuries, for pensive reflection, sensory village walks and slow, seasonal living.
