Archived Memories

A mechanical engineer who clocks in every day at the boiler room, a mushroom farmer on campus, and an old Parsi lady who used to work in the archive and record-keeping department in the 70s Tatanagar in Jamshedpur Is a box” full of stories

WHAT happens when precious memories accidentally tumble out of an old wooden box? The great-grandson of Khurshed Bharucha-the first Indian cashier of Tata Steel and one of the last remaining members of the dying Parsi community of Jamshedpur-owned this prized possession. The box contained images, postcards and a diary-elements that are poignant memories of a family's existence, origin and most importantly its contribution to the making of the industrial township of Tatanagar.