It didn't surprise me that Surya built his own house and that it was well planned, sturdy and efficient. All the doors in Surya’s house have large steel brackets on either side of the inside door jambs and are bolted right through the thick masonary walls. The brackets are designed to hold in place a thick piece of wood, heavier than a 2 x 4, to bar the door and keep tigers from entering the house at night. The village is located on a high ridge that has been cleared for pasture but the dense forest comes all the way up the slope on the south side of the ridge almost to the top.