Among-st other things, sending and receiving good wishes are an integral part of the festive season.It is as important as sharing sweets and candies or buying new purchases.
During this time of the year, I feel bit nostalgic about something that was so much inherent to the festivals. Buying, sending or receiving or even making them at home, was so much fun.
I am trying to revive our fond memories of Greetings cards. Unfortunately, due to technological advancement and changing dynamics of human needs and preferences, this once important article has seen the sunset.
I vividly remember how I would wait for greetings cards to be delivered by the post man during the Christmas and New year period.
Once I had received a Santa shaped card from one of my aunt (who was based in abroad that time) and had kept it with utmost care for many years. I even had made copies of it using drawing paper and crayons and had gifted to some of my close friends and class teacher.
Some of the cards received were pretty good. Nice paintings, sketches and photographs were depicted on them. I was particularly interested in the sketches and paintings. They provided good fodder to my personal drawing endeavors.
At that time, there used to be regular markets full of vendors who would sell cards of all shapes and sizes on footpaths and push carts.
They were very economical and appearance wise, some of them were excellent, though paper quality of some weren't upto the mark.
The artworks on the cards, though bore artistes' signature, but most of the time they weren't legible. However the quality of the sketches/water coloring/ pastel work was always commendable. I still wonder how such good work , was available in such attrociously low price ( most of them would come in 5- 10 rupees range !)
Then came the dot-com boom. Physical cards were being replaced by e-greeting sites.
Then came the mobile revolution. Greetings were exchanged via SMS.
And now we are in smart smartphone era, and our greetings exchanges are being taken care of by various mobile apps.
Greetings messages have lost the personal touch that they are supposed to have. Nowadays, it's only "forwarded".
The "forwards" don't have any true feelings associated with them.
Sadly, the old world charm has vanished..
During this time of the year, I feel bit nostalgic about something that was so much inherent to the festivals. Buying, sending or receiving or even making them at home, was so much fun.
I am trying to revive our fond memories of Greetings cards. Unfortunately, due to technological advancement and changing dynamics of human needs and preferences, this once important article has seen the sunset.
I vividly remember how I would wait for greetings cards to be delivered by the post man during the Christmas and New year period.
Once I had received a Santa shaped card from one of my aunt (who was based in abroad that time) and had kept it with utmost care for many years. I even had made copies of it using drawing paper and crayons and had gifted to some of my close friends and class teacher.
Some of the cards received were pretty good. Nice paintings, sketches and photographs were depicted on them. I was particularly interested in the sketches and paintings. They provided good fodder to my personal drawing endeavors.
At that time, there used to be regular markets full of vendors who would sell cards of all shapes and sizes on footpaths and push carts.
They were very economical and appearance wise, some of them were excellent, though paper quality of some weren't upto the mark.
The artworks on the cards, though bore artistes' signature, but most of the time they weren't legible. However the quality of the sketches/water coloring/ pastel work was always commendable. I still wonder how such good work , was available in such attrociously low price ( most of them would come in 5- 10 rupees range !)
Then came the dot-com boom. Physical cards were being replaced by e-greeting sites.
Then came the mobile revolution. Greetings were exchanged via SMS.
And now we are in smart smartphone era, and our greetings exchanges are being taken care of by various mobile apps.
Greetings messages have lost the personal touch that they are supposed to have. Nowadays, it's only "forwarded".
The "forwards" don't have any true feelings associated with them.
Sadly, the old world charm has vanished..
1 comment:
Brilliant! And absolutely right.
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