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The other side of the coin
January 7, 2019January 8, 2019

The other side of the coin

A Matter of Time: the collection of Puran Singh
July 12, 2020July 12, 2020

A Matter of Time: the collection of Puran Singh

Memoir of a freedom fighter : A letter from Sambrial Jail, 1944
May 31, 2018June 3, 2018

Memoir of a freedom fighter : A letter from Sambrial Jail, 1944

November 19, 2017December 3, 2017

A mother’s gift to her daughter on her wedding

Parul with her mother on her wedding day

When I first came across my mother’s wedding saree, I told her if I ever get married that is what I would wear. She would laugh this off telling me when the time came (and she really hoped it did!) I’d go running to my friends or a fancy boutique and leave her out of this big decision.

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My grandparent’s token of love

My grandparents reached Delhi separately with their families in 1947, but their love story had begun long before that. Along with their stories, I have inherited a simple ring that spoke volumes of their love for each other.

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A family heirloom from Bhalwal (now in Pakistan)

A grandfather’s rituals, a grandmother’s memory

My earliest memory of these idols is waking up to pitaji, my paternal grandfather praying to them every morning. The sound of his voice while he tended to these idols was so emotional and loving, that it haunts me till date. Almost as though it was a very private and sacred conversation between them.

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Upon meeting my grandfather

Now several years after the death of my grandfather, his medals continue to live in a rectangular wooden box in my grandmother’s house.

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The hope in black and grey

She gingerly opened the cover and pressed those keys with a glee that hadn’t graced her face for years. There had been nothing or so little to look forward to for all these long years.

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The Museum of Material Memory is a digital repository of material culture of the Indian subcontinent, tracing family history and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity.

Through storytelling, each post on the Archive reveals not just a history of objects and the people they belong to, but also unfolds generational narratives about the tradition, culture, customs, conventions, habits, language, society, geography and history of the vast and diverse subcontinent.


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