<p>A web portal, which offers an online platform to people to remember and pay tributes to their departed ones through digital obituaries, photographs, biographies and videos on a web page has been developed.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Human race has tried to remember those dead by building pyramids, memorials, samadhis and tombs like Taj Mahal besides through religious rituals and heart-wrenching quotations on grave stones.<br /><br /> After the advent of newspapers, people started issuing condolence message adverts in memory of the dead.<br /><br />In 2011, when food was served in one such newspaper page, full of condolence advertisements (common in Gujarati newspapers here), to two friends by a street hawker, they chanced upon the idea of providing an online platform to people to lock the memories of their loved ones permanently.<br /><br />Thus, Vimal Popat and Vivek Vyas of Rajkot launched their first and only web portal of the country dedicated to obituaries for common people on net called Shrandhajali.com.<br /><br />"Though newspapers reach lakhs of people on a single day, the shelf life of a newspaper is very limited and after that it is used for different purposes. We thought that this web-based portal will be an alternative to remember and pay tributes to those who we adore but have left this abode," Vivek Vyas said.<br /><br />"There are names of greats and reputed contemporaries on the web, but when we search the name of our grandfather or father it is not there on the net. <br /><br />By this website you can create permanent digital footprints of your family which is required in this digital age," Vyas said.</p>
<p>A web portal, which offers an online platform to people to remember and pay tributes to their departed ones through digital obituaries, photographs, biographies and videos on a web page has been developed.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Human race has tried to remember those dead by building pyramids, memorials, samadhis and tombs like Taj Mahal besides through religious rituals and heart-wrenching quotations on grave stones.<br /><br /> After the advent of newspapers, people started issuing condolence message adverts in memory of the dead.<br /><br />In 2011, when food was served in one such newspaper page, full of condolence advertisements (common in Gujarati newspapers here), to two friends by a street hawker, they chanced upon the idea of providing an online platform to people to lock the memories of their loved ones permanently.<br /><br />Thus, Vimal Popat and Vivek Vyas of Rajkot launched their first and only web portal of the country dedicated to obituaries for common people on net called Shrandhajali.com.<br /><br />"Though newspapers reach lakhs of people on a single day, the shelf life of a newspaper is very limited and after that it is used for different purposes. We thought that this web-based portal will be an alternative to remember and pay tributes to those who we adore but have left this abode," Vivek Vyas said.<br /><br />"There are names of greats and reputed contemporaries on the web, but when we search the name of our grandfather or father it is not there on the net. <br /><br />By this website you can create permanent digital footprints of your family which is required in this digital age," Vyas said.</p>