Museum of Material Memory

A crowdsourced digital repository of material culture of the Indian subcontinent, tracing family history and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity

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The ink of memory: My grandfather’s journal entries

This is an excerpt from a journal entry written by my paternal grandfather, Tilak Raj Malhotra. The entries span from December 1949 to December 1982. Reading these feels like an intrusion to me, given their deeply personal nature and my lack of explicit permission. Yet, years ago, I resolved to document them on this Archive

The biography of coins

But the past came most alive whenever these coins were taken out. They were charged with stories that may not have emerged otherwise – each coin held a different tale, a different style of narration, the varied emotions giving those aged metal pieces a meaning.

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"The idea that even the most quotidian of objects in our homes have important stories behind them is at the heart of the Museum of Material Memory"

"The idea that even the most quotidian of objects in our homes have important stories behind them is at the heart of the
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