India, March 31 -- Here's a super rare sight. Seated on a public bench, a citizen is writing manually. That is, she is writing with her hand, using a pen and paper. The paper is placed for support on a hardbound book, which happens to be the anniversary edition of Dharamvir Bharati's novel Gunahon Ka Devta.
Parthivi says she often writes letters.
Can this law student be a part of some Luddite society whose members write letters to each other to recreate the vanished fashions?
No. Parthivi simply writes handwritten letters to friends. (Although she doesn't receive handwritten replies as often.)
In any case, penning a long letter by hand is almost extinct. The age of mobile phones has rewired our writing fingers. Acclimatised into pressin...