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The Indian Memory Project is an online archive that aims to trace the history of the Indian subcontinent using images and narratives offered by families and individuals in several countries. It was founded in February 2010 by Indian photographer Anusha Yadav.[1] The ongoing project attempts to convey in a unified way the history of the subcontinent, its experiences, humanity, choices and its circumstances that have made the region and its people who they are. It is also intended to promote greater tolerance, understanding, and capacity for learning among the citizens of India, its neighbouring countries and the world.

The project employs photographs, contextualised narratives and letters found in personal archives, highlighting themes such as social transformation, new professions, partition, education, war, marriage, religion and culture, and the impact they had on families living during these times. With personal images serving as evidence, each post on the archive reveals information about people, families and ancestors, cultures, lifestyles, traditions, choices, circumstances and thereby consequences. Indian Memory Project has received images from families and people based in Canada, USA, Ireland, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, United Kingdom. Currently the oldest photograph is from 1860.

Letters of Love Project

The project is a crowdsourced book on photographs, love letters and postcards received, sent or found, written by hand or typewritten, before the era of computers, and before the year 2000. The project accepts photographs and letters from before 1991. Entries are accepted from any country, nationality or region.

Awards and recognition

  • 2014: "Innovator of the Year", India Today Woman Summit 2014[2]
  • 2013: "Online Influencer": L’Oreal Paris Women Achiever's Award[citation needed]
  • 2013: "Honorary mention, Digital Communities", Prix Ars Electronica, Austria[3]
  • 2013: presentation by photo historian, Professor Christopher Pinney, Chobi Mela[citation needed]
  • 2013-2014: "India’s Best Blogs"' (informational sites)[4]
  • 2012-2013: "India's best blogs (informational sites) [citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Alexander, Deepa (21 October 2020). "Indian Memory Project: Time travel through the history of a nation". The Hindu.
  2. ^ http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-woman-awards-2014-winners/1/376571.html
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2016-08-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ http://www.indiantopblogs.com/p/the-directory-of-best-indian-blogs.html

Media coverage

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