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palkar.org since 1998

We found each
other online.

A homepage became a meeting place. A guestbook became a collection of memories. This is our little corner of web history.

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palkar.org

palkar.org

The Sourashtra Homepage

Welcome to our home on the web

Created on 20 October 1998

From one homepage to a world of connections.

A design tribute to our early days on the web.
palkar.org went online on 20 October 1998, created by Ragu Tirukonda, and has served the community ever since. Some of its early features belong to a different era of the internet. We keep their memory here.

The website, through the years

A small beginning.
A lasting connection.

  1. A home on the web

    Ragu Tirukonda creates palkar.org on 20 October 1998.

  2. 1998-2018

    Avre Guestu Booku

    1,419 messages record greetings, reunions and everyday connections between 1998 and 2018.

  3. Today

    The story continues

    Language, histories, food and people. A new home for the connections that brought us here.

1,419messages1998-2018

The guestbook

So many places.
So much to say.

Between 1998 and 2018, visitors left 1,419 messages in the palkar.org guestbook, from Madurai, Chennai, London, Qatar, San Francisco and beyond. Greetings, matrimonial requests, people searching for long-lost relatives, and families looking for travel companions for their parents. The guestbook is being archived, with phone numbers and email addresses removed.
Archive in progress

The early web

Before feeds.
Personal homepages.

In the early days of the web, Sourashtrians around the world built personal homepages on GeoCities, Tripod, Angelfire and university servers, and palkar.org listed them all. Those hosts are long gone, but here are the people who were part of the community's first steps online:

  • Achi, J. Murali
  • Anna, Sivakumar
  • Ananthum R. Sureshbabu
  • Bussan, Laxman Nagiah
  • Chinnakonda, Murali
  • Prakash Jayaraman
  • Aparna Gunnia
  • Kandallu, D. Pradeep Chand
  • Kandalu, R. Gopalakrishnan
  • Kandalu, S. Vijayakumar
  • Kandula, Rajendran
  • Kanpa, P. Murugan
  • Kanpa, Shiela Murugan
  • Vikrant Kobla
  • Avinash Kuttuva
  • Pradeepkumar Kuttuva
  • Arvind Lappasi
  • M.A. Ramani
  • Arvind K. Mollin
  • Param Nattamai
  • Obla, Vishvesh
  • Sivakumar B. Ramiya
  • Sivan, J. Suresh
  • T.B. Seenivasan
  • T.S. Mahesh Mohan
  • Thoppae V. Karthick Kumar
  • VenkateshBabu T Mohan
  • Pradeepkumar Thimma
  • Venkatesh Thirukonda
  • Pranesh Thirukkonda
  • T.R. Paramesh Babu
  • Murugesh Thirumalainambi
  • Tirukonda, Amar Subramanian
  • T.B. Srinivasan
  • Rajaraman Vidhun
  • Dr. Urmila Babu

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