Nain Singh Rawat

The childhood fascination with storytelling began seamlessly flowing into their ideas and soon paper cut art walked its way into the lives of Hari Panicker & Deepti Nair, which saw the duo experimenting with paper cut shadow boxes.

Born in 1830 in Milam, a village nestled in the valleys of the Kumaon Hills, the man’s ‘spy’ expedition proved to be a game changer in a time when the exploration game was a clear monopoly of the Europeans.