New Delhi, Dec. 2 -- On a recent Saturday afternoon, the top floor of the Kunj, a craft and heritage space in Delhi, was abuzz with activity. The spacious sun-lit events area on the third floor had been transformed into a Monpa homestead from the Chug Valley, complete with yak shearing tools, and a churner to make chhurpi (yak-milk cheese), typical to this agro-pastoralist community from western Arunachal Pradesh.

Four women from Damu's Heritage Dine, a community tourism venture-Dorjee Lhamu, Leiki Chomu, Tsering Lhamu and Rinchin Jomba-prepared ingredients for the pop-up organised by World Wildlife Fund India. They chatted with guests as they readied litho, or Asian pear, water celery, buckwheat noodles, phursing gombu and organic red r...