Ancestral Record Chain · Est. in 2000
Some moments deserve to outlast memory.
The archive has always existed.
It will continue long after you are gone.
Not a record of what you shared. A record of who you were.
ARC is not a platform. It is not social media. It is an archive. A continuous, unbroken record of human moments, sealed against time and preserved for those who come after.
Each capsule holds a moment. A conversation. A recording. Evidence that you existed, that you felt something, that your life had texture. Not as performance. As fact.
The archive selects.
Mannu K.
Current Keeper of the Archive.
He did not found ARC. He received it, as those before him received it, as those after him will receive it in turn. The Steward is a role, not a title. A responsibility, not an identity.
"I conduct the interviews. I seal the capsules. I issue the certificates. What you leave behind is not mine. It belongs to the archive, and to whoever opens it."
The archive works in collections.
Bengaluru in the 2020s
12 people. One city. One year. Sealed for thirty years.
The Last Generation
Recording the people who remember what came before. One session. Sealed for ten years.
First Year
Two sessions, twelve months apart. The before and after of arriving somewhere new.
Letters Never Sent
Correspondence that was written and never delivered. The letter as artifact.
The Century Collection
Ten capsules. One hundred years. The Steward selects. Not applied for.
The archive has a finite operational window.
Its continuity depends on those who fund it.
Archive funded through
2047
Updated as funding changes · Last verified May 2026
To contribute to the archive's continuity, fund the archive.
If something here has found you,
the Steward is reachable.