The lost art of Handwriting

By Aravind Samala - April 30, 2018

The lost art of handwritten emotions

A 1990 version of 22-year old sat at his desk scribbling something on a thin white material made out of papyrus with the help of a stick like thing which ejects blue liquid from its one end. The 2018 version of similar aged person is having conversation by typing words into a 5-inch screen made out of chips and batteries.


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Somewhere in between these years, the emotions felt with handwriting is lost. The longing for the arrival of a 40-year old man riding his cycle holding a bunch of envelopes is lost. There is a dearth in the intense action produced in hypothalamus when holding a letter containing words which seemed like they are written not with blue ink out of a pen but with red ink out of a vein.

Watch this TED talk by Lakshmi Pratury on lost art of letter-writing:





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