Letters

“Prithibi ta naki choto hote hote

Satellite ar cable-er hate

Drawing room a rakha boka baksho-te bondi …

Bhebe dekhecho ki,

Tara rao joto alok borsho duure, aro duure, Tumi ar ami

jai krome shorey shorey…”

 

 

 

In this age, where people are connected via modes of mobile communications, where” link ups” and “break ups” occur in a matter of days, calls are rare, and SnapChat and Tweets rule our modes of expression, I think we aren’t really connected. We are drifting apart from each other. Instant Messaging spelt the death knell or doom for a real conversation. And even the last voices faded out. Because few are good listeners.
Born into the millennium, I was already in an age where personal letters are obsolete. So,  Meghavi and I decided to try something. Write. And express.
She’s in some city that is 1700 Km from where I am. Our lives are radically different now, so we thought it would be nice if we could write letters to each other instead of going for the most obvious alternative, WhatsApp, to express ourselves. We were a tad bit busy to actually send physical letters, hence emails.I guess this is the exact reason why people choose to switch to electronic modes of communication. To just get the feel maybe,of letters we tried this.
And the following are the first four letters in our letter thread.
These might be mildly interesting, so I wanted to share them here. Grammar Nazis, ignore the errors, for these are personal letters.