Walk through almost any market across Northeast India, and one immediately notices the extraordinary versatility of bamboo as a material. Across Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, bamboo has quietly supported livelihoods for generations. Furniture, utility baskets, decorative pieces, interior products, household accessories, construction materials and hundreds of handcrafted items continue forming…