Keeping alive the charm of postcards

A community of postcard enthusiasts is keeping the charm of handwritten notes alive

In early 2015, while browsing through walls of stamps at a philately exhibition, Bengaluru-based Amar Deep Anand came across a counter displaying postcards. This chance encounter took the history buff’s collection of World War II stories to a stirringly personal level. 

Anand now has accounts from a German woman whose grandfather served in Hitler’s army, and he’s in touch with a retired officer of the United States Air Force who was posted in Japan when American President Harry Truman had nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

Both of Anand’s conversations, about Hitler’s Germany and the aftermath of the bombings in Japan,