A culture’s memory survives because a few understood that their stories were worth keeping. Our Circle of Patrons are the people who carry that understanding forward — whose support allows us to seek out, document, pay for internships, and preserve personal histories that would otherwise disappear. Their generosity has helped build an archive that now reaches schools, institutions, researchers, and families across the Subcontinent and the world.
This is quiet, lasting work. And it has been made possible with people like them. If you’d like to become a patron of the project please write to us at hello@indianmemoryproject.com
CIRCLE OF PATRONS
– Aseem Yadav, India
– Lala Diwan Chand Trust, Delhi (Artist Grant)
– Shruti Bhandari & Edgar D’Souza, USA
– Helen Keegan, UK
– Dhirendra Vaghani, India
– Bala C Seth, India
– Rekha Rao, Hyderabad
– Edward Alva, Bangalore
– Raju Kosraju, USA
– (Late) Ani Sengupta, Mumbai
– Arpita Chatterjee, Mumbai
– R. Subramanya & V. Dehejia, Mumbai
– Anonymous, USA
– Aarti Kalro, India
– Nippun, India
– Chino Otsuka, Japan
– Subbiah Yadalam, Bangalore
– Prasad Ramamurthy, Mumbai
– Tulsi Dharmarajan, India
– Deepak K, India
– Dev Karan Ahuja, India
– Christopher J Morrow, USA
– Shraddha Adhikari, France
– Devinay, India
– Bhavin Patel, Mumbai
– Anonymous, Bangalore
– Sabelo Narasimhan, USA
– Amit Jain, USA
– Sharmistha Ray, USA
– Poorna Jagannathan, USA
– Usha Kapoor, Singapore
– Rohan Jha, Bangalore
– Aparna Datta, Bangalore
– Ruchi & Dr. Mark Brunvand, Denver, USA
– Dr. Girija Kaimal, USA
– Sheetal Sudhir, Mumbai
– (Late) Usha Bhandarkar, Mumbai
– Lulu Raghavan, Mumbai
– Soni Dave, New Delhi
– Mohan Bhuyan, New Delhi
– Iskander Lalljee, India
– Gautam Kishanchandani, Mumbai
– Kallol Datta, Kolkata
– Aditya Sengupta, Bangalore
– Samta Kejriwal , Mumbai
– Kiran Khalap, Mumbai
– Riddhika Jesrani, Mumbai
– Navneet Kaur Ahuja, Faridabad
– Vikram Ramchandani, Mumbai
– Padmini Mirchandani, Mumbai
– Suresh Mandan, USA
– Rahul Sengupta, Mumbai
– Gauri Gill, New Delhi
– (Late) Nandini Nair, Bangalore
– Dayanita Singh, New Delhi
– Anshumalin Shah, Bangalore
– Radhika Singh, New Delhi
– Lt. Col. Dr. G. Kameswara Rao, Hyderabad
– (Late) Shalini Yadav, Jaipur
– Sagar Kogekar, Australia
– Dinesh Khanna, Gurgaon
– Priyanka Bhasin, Mumbai
Established in 2010, Indian Memory Project has chosen to remain available for reference – free of cost, because the stories on this archive are the subcontinent’s collective personal heritage, and to profit from it feels unethical. Hence, there is no subscription fee, and neither is there any intrusive advertising on the main archive.
Having said that, the Indian Subcontinent is incredibly diverse with a largely undocumented past, and the quest to learn and understand more is a tall task that does cost. So we need help from people like you to bestow a little something to ensure that the project can keep with up contemporary technologies, gather more wondrous and baffling stories and live longer into the future.
Indian Memory Project is an invaluable and a significant good, an unofficial record of a collective that deserves to be nurtured, protected and appreciated.
When you bestow us with some money, it goes back into researching more stories, promoting the project offline and online, storage, scanning, research library fees, e-mailer services, programming /coding maintenance, domain and server costs. It also helps us fund basic food and local transport for researchers, volunteers and preparing presentation materials nationally and internationally.
Sure! We’d be more than happy if you prefer to specifically fund an internship or two. Please write us at indianmemoryproject@gmail.com to take this conversation forward.
Yes, you are most welcome to donate your old pictures or found pictures that hold no real importance to you but can for us, and are willing to waive any rights to it. We ask you to waive rights so we can create exciting merchandise with it and develop art/products to sell that can help fund this project. Please write us at indianmemoryproject@gmail.com to discuss further.
No it is not tax free. While Indian Memory Project is not-for-profit project, the parent company is not a Trust or a Foundation, it is a sole proprietorship, and the only way for us to process any honorarium is through that.
The good news is that whatever amount you choose to pay, we reverse calculate a GST on it (absorbing the tax liability), send you a formal receipt and pay our dues to the government on time.
If you’d like to be credited for the GST, please send us your GSTIN and we shall add that on the receipt.
Please click this link to see our current circle of friends and patrons.
i might have some, will send them!
Look forward to your Submissions Rachana.
Please do not forget to include a narrative.
:) Best, Anusha
indianmemoryproject@gmail.com
I think this is a great idea and would love to send couple of old pics of my father from 1950s and 1960s.