On a sunny Melbourne winter morning, I visited the State Library of Victoria to catch up with a mate and stumbled upon an exhibition of heartfelt letters and souvenirs that lovers have been sharing with each throughout the ages.
What really caught my eye was a glass box in a neglected corner containing cassette tapes from the past century. It looked like a lost universe rediscovered. Besides the music of its time, these palm-size objects remind me of the tapes that carried the voices of loved ones in the pre-internet era of my childhood in Pakistan, when telephones were still a luxury.
