Innovation lessons from handmade paper
Innovation lessons from handmade paper What the revival of the 1,000-year-old Monpa paper in Arunachal Pradesh teaches us. Image: Illustration by Anirban Ghosh Ever since I travelled to Arunachal Pradesh in the beginning of 2020, that northeastern state of solemn and rugged beauty has fascinated me. It was therefore with excitement that I noticed that a 1,000-year-old craft tradition, of making the Monpa handmade paper, had been revived by the state-run Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) in Tawang. It seemed to me to be just the sort of localised, unique innovation that I h...