Top design school professor shuns emails & mobile, prefers postcard

“Dear Praveen,
Our camp got over yesterday. I have managed to get lyrics and translations of folksongs related to the crafts letters. I visited a few more temples and am also looking for some folktales related to the craft. Craft documentation has been an experience I will always treasure.”

Yours sincerely….

Before you think the above portion to be an extract from an e-mail, here is the shocker. This interaction, between a professor and his student, exchanging experience of craft documentation project from a small village in Karnataka, written on a postcard.

Meet Prof Praveen Nahar from Ahmedabad-based National Institute of Design (NID).

In this era of super communication modes, he still prefers landline over mobile, and postcards over e-mail. If this was not surprising enough, Prof Nahar neither does have a television set at home nor does he owns a vehicle to commute. He insists communication even on the campus should be via postcards.

“On my insistence, my students send me details of their projects through postcards. Many of them went to the post office to buy post cards for the first time in life. The idea is to communicate at ease without disturbing anyone’s privacy. I too can have a look at the cards as per my convenience. Nobody’s privacy is disturbed,” he said reasoning usage of post cards in communication.