postcards

Coimbatore-based graphic designer Shuruti Vengatesh has started ‘Patti's Petti’, an initiative where one can send in their grandmother’s recipes or hacks and see them turned into an illustrated postcard.

D Hemchandra Rao is a proud owner of dhow models, anchors, coins with ships engraved on them, models of brass ships, wooden houseboats, pocket watches, clocks, ship lanterns, postcards, stamps of lighthouses and canals collected over a span of two decades!

The architects behind the fantastic pursuit are Onaiza Drabu and Prachi Jha, who send out letters to all the people who are looking for something interesting and meaningful to read through Daak.

India Post and Postcrossing Society of India in Bengaluru have come together for an initiative that will carry the message of gratitude penned down by the people to the soldiers.

Can you imagine a 50 paisa postcard being used as a channel to rebuild the life of a migrant child? Yes, in this era of internet and e-mail, an NGO is using snail mail to help reintegrate migrant children in their old schools when they return to their villages.

Pune-based social entrepreneur, Pradeep Lokhande, communicates with about 58 lakh people of rural India through postcards. He is better known as the postcard man of India, and has a one line address because mail to his place is so frequent and heavy, that the postman does not need details any more.