Minal Bhatia was a teenager when she was first introduced to the concept of writing letters, which she used to write to exchange students, who were known to her. In the 80s, Bhatia had a lot of pen pals and she would send letters to people all over the world. “Since my grandfather was a member of many international associations like the Indo-Japanese Centre and was also a Rotaract member, a lot of foreign students would come to our house. I used to write letters to them as a child.”

While it was a very enriching exercise for Bhatia then, it fizzled off once life happened. But as life happened, the former teacher got to reconnect with that side of her in the last two years, after more than 30 years. Today, she regularly writes to many friends, who are not only from India but different parts of the world. It is an activity that she truly enjoys in this digital age.