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Ep 324: Akshaya Mukul and the Life of Agyeya

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Consequences of Letter Writing

Letter writing was something that people did, read them no longer do. Like the way that we communicate is we'll communicate in WhatsApp messages or terse emails and this is two consequences. One consequence for a historian is that there is really no record of deep conversations and what is happening. When you receive a handwritten letter from me, which is four pages, you have that sense that this person has thought about me that I am important for this person. And my biggest fear, as you said, I've been asking this question to archivist.

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