Until the rise of air travel and electronic mail; stamped envelopes carried love and commerce between nations over ships. Once the pride and joy of a child's collection, stamps today are no more than inch-high epigraphs of our immediate past, yellowing slowly along with their collectors. Yet they are valuable for the study of a past: representing not so much a history that is studied better through archives; but an imagined past and fantasized future - of what the issuing country chose to memorialize. In this talk, using mostly Indian stamps, the speaker will explore a brief history of the remembrance of maritime heritage, through what was commemorated within the perforated lines, and what was left in the marginalia of popular consciousness. About the Speaker : Raamesh Gowri Raghavan moonlights as an award-winning copywriter by day and daylights as an award-wanting poet by night, and sandwiches writing haiku, learning languages and peer counselling for suicide prevention. He has interests in tea, epigraphy, military archaeology, and ethno archaeology.