By S D Subrata

At one time chiti was the medium of all communication. Letters were the means of communicating with family members, exchanging feelings with loved ones or exchanging feelings with relatives. The letter has almost been lost due to the change of time. September 1 is World Letter Day. The day is recognized as the International Letter Day. The days of writing letters by hand and filling envelopes and posting them at the post office have been lost due to technology. I'm fine, I'm fine, write letters to the sky's address, like this song, someone once thought that people would write letters only to the sky's address, i.e. on the Internet, that is, by e-mail! Linguists call this system of communication composed of short sentences, clipped words, 'textspeak'. If you need to talk to someone, you can quickly mix Bengali-English and send it to your inbox. The letter would have a sincere address, the letter would have emotions, the unspoken words, and at the end, before signing one's name, it would say 'Iti Tomar' or 'Yours Dear ....' The postal department has a touch of modernity. But despite all this, the letters are decreasing day by day. In the last 5 years, the letters of the postal department have reduced by half. Personal letters do not come to the postal department except for government work and official ones. What the English orator Somerset Mum said long ago is true in today's reality. Letter writing is truly a lost art. Nowadays, everyone knows that no one goes to the post office without submitting official work documents or application forms. At one time letters were the only means of communication with distant relatives. Even the words that could not be said verbally to someone very close were beautifully arranged in letters. A letter contained Toitambu's emotions. Although there is disagreement about how letters were exchanged before Shershah's horse mail was in vogue, it is common knowledge that nowadays no one goes to the post office without a letter of paperwork or an application letter. But once upon a time, letters were a means of communication with people who were far away. not only far,The words that could not be said verbally to someone very close to the heart were also carefully arranged in letters. How many stories, how much history would be in one letter! And there was full of emotions, enthusiasm, affection, love. The digital age has eliminated the need for letters, especially as a means of personal communication, since SMS to chat with various apps have opened up instant means of communication, making letters obsolete. Handwritten letters are going away and even personal letters written by e-mail are almost disappearing. However, the popular Hollywood movie 'You've Got a Mail' starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan can now be considered history. A letter means not only a letter but much more than that, many people have not forgotten this, and with that in mind, the World Letter Day begins. Started in 2014 by Australian writer, artist and photographer Richard Simpkin. In order not to lose the joy of receiving a handwritten letter or the feeling of writing a letter on paper and sending it in an envelope, Simpkin chose September 1 as the day to celebrate letters. In this digital era, when everyone is being captured by text, video, then the reason to think about things like letters is that letters are not just casual communication, but there are many more things in it. Letters can fulfill the need for communication and become many things. Sometimes a letter written to someone's daughter later became an educational book of history and philosophy, sometimes a personal love letter became an invaluable literary treasure. Some letters have created the literary language of a nation and some letters are a testimony to the tragic history of its political movements.

Here are some facts about some of the letters in history that are not just letters, but whose influence is still widespread. Balfour Declaration (1917):Leaders of the time, including Lionel Walter Rothschild, the leader of the Jewish community in the United Kingdom, campaigned in many European countries to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. After much diplomatic back-and-forth, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote a letter to Rothschild supporting the claim and requesting that the letter be forwarded to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain. This letter is known as 'Balfour Declaration' or 'Balfour Declaration'. Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963): Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an open letter advocating nonviolent protest against segregation and racism. This is known as Letter from Birmingham Jail. In this letter, he said that it is the moral responsibility of people to break unjust laws and take direct action against them instead of waiting forever to get justice from the courts. Even today, Martin Luther King Jr. is immortal in the fight for the rights of black people, and this letter he wrote is also immortal. Einstein's letter to Roosevelt (1939): This letter is also known as the Einstein-Szilard letter. Hungarian immigrants Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and Edward Teller are known to have persuaded Einstein to warn US President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the possibility of Germany developing an atomic bomb.

The letter also urged the US to be aware of nuclear power. The letter served as one of the key drivers of the devastating Manhattan Project of World War II. A Father's Letter to a Teacher: The Word Magician of the Historic Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln, the first US Republican president, wrote a letter to his son's headmaster while in office from 1861 to 1865. This letter not only ranks as a historical letter, but also brilliantly highlights what should be the place of moral values among teachers, fathers and children of the world. Sullivan Ballew Letter (1861): Union Army soldier Sullivan Ballew wrote a letter to his wife Sarah during the American Civil War. This heartfelt letter reflects the mixed emotions he was feeling on the eve of the Civil War. anxiety,Fear, guilt, sadness, but also her undying love for her children and, above all, her sense of duty to the nation, were mentioned in this letter.A letter is like a document. Written form of emotion letter. A letter can be the solution to all problems. In the letter, there is the urgency of need, as well as simple emotions, a touch of love.

Author: Poet and Essayist, Sunamganj.

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