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Technology is eroding the need for a personal touch in relationships and the change is here to stay... Once upon a time, people wrote letters. With a pen in hand and a writing pad on the lap, they styled each and every word in an individualistic manner, choosing expressions that conveyed their emotions with utmost care. In today’s times, there is hardly any time for such luxury. Forget sitting back and drafting a letter for our loved ones, we choose to send SMSes during occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries and marriages. A birthday SMS reads “Hv a gr8 day. Tk cr.” A sms for a friend’s marriage reads, “Hr’s wishn u a fantastic life ahd.” Emotions are being expressed with such surgical precision that relationships are losing their personal touch. E-cards, somehow, don’t convey the emotions in a way that cards made out of paper — and with a few words scribbled inside — do. Yet, during every momentous occasion of our lives, we receive a large number of E-cards, among which sever...