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O. P. Jain
Om Prakash Jain (born 1929) is an Indian art curator, collector, patron and philanthropist. He is the Founder-President of the Sanskriti Pratishthan (Sankriti Foundation), established in 1979, which runs the Sanskriti Kendra Museums at Anandagram, Delhi. He has remained the chairman of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) for 15 years. He is one of the promoters of Neemrana Fort Palace Hotels.
==Biography==
Born and brought up in a business family in Old Delhi, where his family has office at Chawri Bazar. Without much formal education, he joined family paper-trading business at an early age. Then it was a chance meeting with writer Mulk Raj Anand in the 1970s, that inspired him to work for art and cultural heritage conservation.〔〔 He spent many years collecting everyday functional objects like kitchen and household items, made by artisans, finally in 1984 it set up a small museum with his private collection at the basement of his Kinari Bazaar house in Chandni Chowk area, 10 years later, the collection shifted to the Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art, at Anandagram, an artist village, he established on the outskirts of Delhi. Subsequently, the Museum of Terracotta Art and Textile were also established.〔( WHAT'S DOING IN; Delhi ) Travel, New York Times, November 30, 2003. ''p. 2.''.〕
He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2003, for his contribution to the Arts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs )〕
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