A New Year custom that faded away with Time

If you are born in the 80s you would remember well that there were no telephones in almost all the houses, forget about the cell phones. The only way of wishing a “Happy New Year” was through sending a Greeting card by Indian Postal service with a Greetings message embossed on it.

One used to eagerly wait for those greeting cards at the time of the New Year when the post man arrived at your colony. And how can one forget the post cards which bore the pictures of the Bollywood stars on one side.

Today there are a few businesses which venture in to printing such cards because of the change in times and human practices.

Sending a card to someone always had a personal touch to it. Some cards were even prepared manually by the sender and it had an air of sincerity attached to it.

It would be vague to criminalize technology being the reason for this beautiful custom to vanish.

With the advent of phones and sms-es, the culture of sending cards became obscure and with the Social networking sites the custom might seem alien to the new generation.

This generation might argue that the wastage of paper is checked. But some people still like to hear music the magnetic cassette tapes.