Reviving the art of letter writing in India through carnivals for children

Reviving the art of letter writing in India through carnivals for children

Children have always approached letters with a lot of curiosity | Photo Credit: special arrangement A little boy is stooped over an ivory piece of paper. Pen in hand, he quickly scribbles what is on his mind and finishes off with some embellishments —  drawing hoops along the edges of the page with a red […]

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Chronicling Chennai’s dwindling dalliance with letters and post boxes

Chronicling Chennai’s dwindling dalliance with letters and post boxes

A letter box in RA Puram | Photo Credit: B Velankanni Raj The imperturbable faces of the crooked red letter boxes planted all over Chennai are like epithets the city has forgotten to use. The ones that remain, project the presence of an era that broods in its absences.   For a generation that has […]

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India post releases 10 postcards featuring paintings of 10 children from Kamathipura

India post releases 10 postcards featuring paintings of 10 children from Kamathipura

A postcard-making initiative by India Post helps children on the fringes pay tribute to their mothers: sex workers of Kamathipura A postcard-making initiative by India Post helps children on the fringes pay tribute to their mothers: sex workers of Kamathipura A postcard featuring a woman’s face with a moustache, painted by the 14-year-old daughter of […]

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India post releases 10 postcards featuring paintings of 10 children from Kamathipura

India Post brings out a set of postcards painted by children in Kamathipura

A postcard-making initiative by India Post helps children on the fringes pay tribute to their mothers: sex workers of Kamathipura A postcard-making initiative by India Post helps children on the fringes pay tribute to their mothers: sex workers of Kamathipura A postcard featuring a woman’s face with a moustache, painted by the 14-year-old daughter of […]

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