Raju Sharma Collection
Scope and Contents
The Raju Sharma collection consists of two textbooks on learning electronics in Hindi, a book created at CENDIT, a one page note on CENDIT’s work in Community video and two handwritten notebooks containing notes, circuit diagrams, line drawings and tables that showed how he made sense of the world of video and electronics that he was part of.
Also part of the collection are 18 colour and 2 B&W photographs that emerge from his years at CENDIT. Of specific interest are a series of photographs that show moments of the 20 week training programme on Video communication that CENDIT conducted annually from 1978 to 1982.
Dates
- Creation: 1978 - 2000
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for access unless mentioned in specific folders of the finding aid.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission for reproduction or distribution must be obtained in writing from the Archives at NCBS (archives@ncbs.res.in). The Archives at NCBS makes no representation that it is the copyright owner in all of its collections. The user must obtain all necessary rights and clearances before use of material and material may only be reproduced for academic and non-commercial use.
Biographical / Historical
Raju Sharma is a self taught electronics engineer who got his first experience in his school days when he made his own transistor using instructions from a 10 rupee Make Your Own Transistor radio book. He completed a Diploma in Radio by the time he finished high school in 1973. In 1978, he wanted to work in television, but since there was no scope in his hometown, he came to Delhi in the same year. Interested in TV, he was brought to CENDIT in 1981 by Angshu Das. There, he learned more systematically and worked with advanced technology, entering into camera, video, and related fields. As a video engineer, along with Angshu Das and Balwant, he was one of the three engineers who made the first multi camera cable TV system in India, and the first Indian colour TV which was later sold to a commercial firm.
Full Extent
861 Sheets
Language of Materials
English
Hindi
Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series: Series 1: Books and Notebooks (1978 - 2000) Series 2 : Photographs (1974 - 1988)
Physical Location
Archives at AMP, New Delhi
Processing Information
Processed as part of NCBS PAST 2025-26. Grantee Name: Advanced Media Production, Grant Title: History of Media Technology from a Jungle of Meaning. For details, see https://archives.ncbs.res.in/past
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives at NCBS Repository
National Centre for Biological Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Bangalore Karnataka 560065 India
+9180 6717 6010
+9180 6717 6011
archives@ncbs.res.in
