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The spared pair of payal
May 11, 2017May 26, 2018

The spared pair of payal

Amina Begum’s mulmul farshi
August 30, 2020August 30, 2020

Amina Begum’s mulmul farshi

What there is in a button? My mother’s button collection
June 21, 2020June 21, 2020

What there is in a button? My mother’s button collection

July 9, 2017August 2, 2017

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 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 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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