She Still Wrote Letters

Priya Amma never got comfortable with WhatsApp. She would read the messages and then ask Deepak to respond for her. But she wrote letters. Actual letters, on blue inland-mail paper, to her sisters in Kerala, to old friends from the training college, to a former student who had moved to Canada. She wrote them in a small precise hand. After she died we found two boxes of letters written back to her, going back decades. People had kept them because they were worth keeping.