Art isn't just a profession for Shridhar Mahapatra and his family it’s their entire lineage. From his grandparents to his wife, the whole household is keeping Odisha’s traditional papier-mâché craft alive.
Using only waste paper, old newspapers, and homemade tamarind seed glue, they shape stunning masks completely by hand. Decades of tradition, yet so few people know it exists. Let's change that and make this story travel!