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Ode to a love story
December 28, 2018December 28, 2018

Ode to a love story

Call of the Needle : a story of Panditji’s kurtas
July 5, 2020July 5, 2020

Call of the Needle : a story of Panditji’s kurtas

The Curious Journey of the Cyclopaedia
June 19, 2022June 19, 2022

The Curious Journey of the Cyclopaedia

June 17, 2017October 10, 2017

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 surmedaani of Shamim Begum

As an adult, I often visited my mother on the weekends and every time she saw me without surma, she applied it immediately and always in a typical and familiar manner.

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The spared pair of payal

Although she had never worn them till recently, due to self-imposed inhibition, when she did finally put them on- gingerly and hesitantly- they looked beautiful on her feet!

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Six yards of elegance

I’m going back in time to experience and be consumed by the events that don’t belong to me, but to my ancestors- all because of six yards of fabric.

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Nasreen and ‘Toto’ and the promise of friendship

A few years later in 1985, I also got married and we both got busy with our respective lives, eventually losing touch. Its been 35 years today since we last spoke to each other.

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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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