A Diwali card nobody has forwarded.

Three cards, already made

Tap an envelope to open it. Nothing here is sent to anybody — these are samples, and the links below them open the write page with that note in the message box, which is as far as any of it goes. We never ask for the other person’s number: you get a link at the end and you send it yourself.

1. For your family · Marigold, the default hand

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   Happy Diwali to everyone. I assume the cleaning finished at the last possible minute, three people are arguing about diya placement, and somebody has already claimed the good sweets. Some traditions hold. Hope the whole day goes well for all of you.

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2. For your sister · Blush, formal script

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   Happy Diwali. It genuinely isn't the same without you arguing about diya placement for forty minutes and then rearranging everything after the guests have gone. Wishing you light, sweets, and considerably fewer relatives than we're dealing with here.

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3. For a colleague · Terra, printed hand

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   Happy Diwali. Hope you get a proper break out of this week rather than a working festival, and that the laptop stays shut for all of it. Thank you for a genuinely good year of working together, and I hope the week is a bright one at home.

   Write this one for a colleague

The names on these three are made up. The words are the suggestions we wrote, which is exactly what you get in the box — and then you change whatever is only yours.

What you are buying

₹49 is the card itself: up to 400 characters in your own words, the envelope, the wax seal, and the paper unfolding when they open the link on their phone — which is what the three above are doing. You see the finished thing, working, before you pay for it.

₹99 adds a photo, or a voice note of up to a minute in your own voice — one or the other, not both — and lets you seal the card so it will not open before a time you choose, anywhere from fifteen minutes to thirty days ahead, Indian time. Either card stays readable for ninety days, counted from when you send it or from when a sealed one unlocks.

The paper, the envelope colour, the wax and the handwriting are all yours to change while you write — the three above are three of the combinations, not three fixed designs. There is no account to make and nothing recurring. We do not know when a card is opened, and we do not tell you.