I appreciate and acknowledge the help, support and guidance given by the following fellow autograph collectors and many other personalities, organizations & institutions who have encouraged me in creation of this Website.

I am grateful to Vinod Talati, Ahmedabad who was the collector of autographs since more than 50 years. He has given me many autographs from his collection and I sincerely thank him here as he is the person who has created the base of my collection.

I am thankful to Santosh Kumar Lahoti of Kolkata who has kindly shared his experience and knowledge on the subject.

I am highly thankful to Gopal Das Agrawal of Kolkata for making me available the scans of autographs from his collection.

I am thankful to Dhiren Shah of Mumbai who is a collector of autographs since many years.

I am thankful to Sanjay Gosalia and Anuj Pakwasa who were kind enough to give me the scans of autographs of Indian Princely State Rulers from their collection of Coat-of-Arms and correspondence of Indian Royal celebrities.

I also would like to thank Rolf Ramseier, Switzerland who is the member of Universal Autograph Collectors’ Club, USA. He has helped me a lot in getting the autographs of many Indian and SAARC Countries’ Celebrities.

I am thankful to an Indian Army Veteran Colonel Vembu Shankar, SC for his support, encouragement and guidance.

I express my thanks to Abhay Shah, Ahmedabad who is a friend and well wisher. His silent support has made me capable to launch this website.

I also thank Farokh Todywalla, Mumbai who has always encouraged me for these types of Projects which educate and create awareness amongst collectors to organize and develop their hobbies.

A number of organizations, friends and colleagues have contributed and helped me in this endeavor. They have either provided the material or their material has been used with gratitude on this website at appropriate places. Although it is not possible to acknowledge their help and contributions individually, I wish to record my thanks to:

• Ministry of Culture, Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India, New Delhi
• Google network and Wikipedia
• Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai
• Children’s Museum Foundation, Amreli, Gujarat
• Victoria Memorial National Museum, Kolkata
• Milind Wagle, Mumbai
• Nelson Edward Lewis, Bahrain
• Late S. S. Hitkari, the great Autograph collector, New Delhi
• Yogesh Lakhani, Sr. Advocate, High Court of Gujarat, Ahmedabad
• Dr. Dhimant Purohit, Ahmedabad
• Mainak Kathiara, Ahmedabad
• Nilesh Parmar, Ahmedabad
• Khimaram Rayka, Ahmedabad
• Santosh Saini, Ahmedabad
• Shreya Mehta, Rajkot
• Rakshit Pambhar, Rajkot
• Neelkamal Maheshwari, Chennai
• Nupur B. Patel, Mumbai
• Samaptiben Patel, Mumbai
• Sudhir Tandon, Lucknow
• Ved Harsh, Lucknow
• Saroj Ranjan Kar, Odisha
• Kishore Jhunjhunwala, Mumbai
• Jigar Desai, Mumbai
• Vinodini Kanakia, Pune
• Sanjay Kumar Joshi, Kolkata
• Prashant Arora, Kolkata
• Debapriyo Goswami, Kolkata

My special thanks to my wife Rekha who has never grudged for taking away her share of life time and has always extended excellent encouragement and support.

I also would like to take a sincere note of the help that my daughter Binali has given me in preparing this Website . She had some autographs of renowned Indian Celebrities and she gave them to me which I have incorporated in this book.

I also take a sincere note of the support that my son Kunal and his wife Bina has given me in designing this Website. In fact they both are USA based Autograph Collectors.

My thanks with love to my US based grand children Esha Thakkar, Nihar Thakkar, Shaunak Madani and my beloved late Urushi Madani who have helped in my work of arranging Autographs during my stay at USA.

My friend Dipen Oza has kept no stone unturned to see that this website becomes best in all respects.

My sincere thanks are due to all of them.