Hastalekha

When I was in school, we were taught to write in Cursive Roman script as I studied in English medium school. Since then I worked hard on my handwriting skills and would always look forward to improving it. Practice books, slates, different writing instruments etc were put to use and it would feel like a very big achievement to have the most beautiful and neat writing in class. But gone is this skill and the importance behind it as handwriting in general is out of fashion. Today everyone just 'Types' (the way I am doing now). Even gone are the typewriters and the peculiar sound they made. According to Graphologists, good handwriting has many plus points as it activates the brain due to the complex motor and cognitive skills involved in it; it helps people with dyslexia; reading fluency due to visual perception of letters and much more. Apart from calligraphic point of view where the writing style of the alphabet is experimented with and altered to suit the theme or look aesthe...