India, Nov. 25 -- In a world accelerating on the axis of artificial intelligence, automation, and algorithmic precision, a quiet erosion is underway-an erosion not of infrastructure or industry, but of human skills once central to intellect, culture, and identity. Handwriting, once a reflection of personality and a rhythm shaped by muscle memory, has shrunk into hurried scrawls reserved mostly for signatures. Cursive writing, the former pride of school notebooks, now survives merely as decorative nostalgia.
Children who once filled pages with essays now tap on screens, and many struggle to write even a single page without fatigue, as though ink itself has become an outdated relic. Equally endangered is the once-effortless art of mental cal...