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Recently, on the #MuseumofMaterialMemory, stories of an heirloom naada paani passed down the generations of a family, and a Sindhi nath called a chunni carried from Shikarpur to Bombay during Partition https://t.co/yMvWiJ89V4
#IndiaAt75 | Navdha Malhotra who co-founded the #MuseumofMaterialMemory found her family tree in her grandfather’s briefcase. It also contained his passport documents and a political sufferer certificate issued by the #Indian Government. https://t.co/ohpsSvl2DV
Oral historian and author @AanchalMalhotra on the scar left by the Partition, material memory, and her stay in Kolkata.
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#Interview #PartitionHistory #History #MuseumOfMaterialMemory #Kolkata #MyKolkata #TheTelegraph
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The #MuseumofMaterialMemory, a crowd-sourced, digital repository of the material culture of the #Indian subcontinent, aims to do just that. https://t.co/D7tuV4Yr4q
For this week's story on #MuseumofMaterialMemory, Chennai-based Siddharth Sunder @caminnar writes about a chance conversation on an airline in December 1970, leading to a letter from Mother Teresa, which has now become a treasured heirloom in his family. 1/
Thank you. We are so proud to have published and preserved your family history on the #MuseumofMaterialMemory https://t.co/BOlE9OKL7U
Thanks to @AanchalMalhotra @NavdhaM @amanmadra for the kind of interest and effort you put into researching history, places, and people. It's really an inspiration for people like me to research and write this thread on family’s military history.
The #MuseumofMaterialMemory is a crowd-sourced, borderless, digital repository tracing family histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and antiques from the Indian subcontinent, co-founded in 2017 by @NavdhaM and myself.
Our last two stories on #MuseumofMaterialMemory - how the motifs from a chikankari odhni of Lucknow were recreated by the great great granddaughter of the original maker in present day, and a 18000 word Little Webster dictionary bought in Kashmir in 1957. https://t.co/Ep62UTVMhd
Sahiba Bhatia wrote a lovely story for our #MuseumofMaterialMemory on the Princess Mary Box she inherited from her ancestors https://t.co/azt5Tx2NaD
@sunnysaggy Halo! the unroll you asked for: For this week's story on #MuseumofMaterialMemory, Sri Muktsar… https://t.co/UUe99NA9E1 Have a good day. 🤖
For this week's story on #MuseumofMaterialMemory, Sri Muktsar Sahib-based Khushveen Brar writes about a salwar and a pair of panjeb that belong to her nani, Hardev Kaur, and bequeathed to her by her elder sister-in-law, Gurdial Kaur, both of whom hailed from Faridkot, Punjab. 1/
In pursuit of a prayer - The Museum of Material Memory has added my story of 2 books and a hand written Sufi prayer to its virtual collection. These date back to the 1870s and have been handed down through family generations. #museumofmaterialmemory https://t.co/62ezkVW8iM
@nandanadevsen Thank you! Your appreciation means so much! It's my honour to have you share it. @AanchalMalhotra Thanks for giving me this space on #MuseumOfMaterialMemory in 2019, and... it's so wonderful, seeing everything it culminated into! ❤️ #WorldPoetryDay2021
@madhura1920 @archipelagobks Amazing, Madhura! Thank you so much for sharing your marvelous essay, and pages of this #rare #book of #translations of the #poetry #OmarKhayyam by my #poet grandfather #NarendraDev
I would love to share it too! #WorldPoetryDay2021 ♥️
every single story posted in #MuseumofMaterialMemory is touching. Wanna share my grandma’s partition story on there, just need to ask around and retrieve some information.
For this week's story on #MuseumofMaterialMemory, Rituparna Roy writes about her grandmother, her thamma, Pratima Roy (née Das), and the heirloom - a silver sindoor kouto - that has been passed down the generations.
For this week's story on #MuseumofMaterialMemory, Rituparna Roy writes about her grandmother, her thamma, Pratima Roy (née Das), and the heirloom - a silver sindoor kouto - that has been passed down the generations.
For this week's story on #MuseumofMaterialMemory, Pavithra Dikshit writes about a metal box her grandfather, V. Ramachandran, bought in the 1930s in his hometown of Srirangam, Tiruchirappalli, and how after his death, it became one of the most beloved artefacts in her family.
In what is probably one of the most moving pieces on the #MuseumofMaterialMemory, Shubham Das writes about the old Bangla books he discovered within locked cupboards around his house, and how they gave him access to the life his father had once lived.
In what is probably one of the most moving pieces on the #MuseumofMaterialMemory, Shubham Das writes about the old Bangla books he discovered within locked cupboards around his house, and how they gave him access to the life his father had once lived.
@Jasbirmaan's wonderful piece on his great-grandfather's service medals on the #MuseumofMaterialMemory https://t.co/BOlE9OKL7U
Happy Gunners Day !
Remembering my Great Grandfather Sardara Singh, A Gunner in Bengal Mountain Battery. He was part of operations in Waziristan - Zhob Field Force, Burma - Third Anglo Burmese War, Chumbi valley n Lhasa - Younghusband Expedition. Read on: https://t.co/yUkYC6bioc
For this week's story on #MuseumofMaterialMemory, @SabaQizilbash writes about how her grandfather bequeathed to her his old cheque book from Imperial Bank of India, Srinagar, upon learning that she wished to marry a young man from the same city; a cross-border marriage.
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