SPEED POST: Students during the missive of the alphabet rival at Ranchi GPO on Sunday. Telegraph picture
Ranchi: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's No One Writes to the Colonel tin immediately travel an epitaph for letter-writing every bit a whole.
At an historic stream where emails, chatboxes, inboxes in addition to WhatsApp accept made pen-and-paper letters nearly museum pieces, Bharat Post is hosting a nationwide contest, Dhai Akhar, to revive this cast of communication.
On Sunday, Ranchi GPO nether Bharat Post held a missive of the alphabet writing rival on its premises nigh Albert Ekka Chowk inwards which thirty students from diverse urban gist schools took part.
Senior superintendent of Ranchi circle K.D. Singh said the rival was organised nether the aegis of the national event, on from June fifteen till September 30. The subject of the rival is "letter to my motherland" inspired yesteryear Rabindranath Tagore's vocal O Amar Desher Mati. Letters tin travel written inwards Hindi, English linguistic communication or a local linguistic communication yesteryear people inwards 2 historic stream grouping categories, Under eighteen in addition to Over 18. In both historic stream groups, at that topographic point are 2 format categories, inland missive of the alphabet (500 words) in addition to envelope (1,000 words).
In both historic stream groups in addition to for both formats, prizes would travel awarded separately. The circle degree rival awards prizes of Rs 25,000, Rs 10,000 in addition to Rs 5,000. At the national level, the quantum of prizes are Rs 50,000 in addition to Rs 25,000.
H5N1 GPO piece of occupation assistant, Basant Singh, who was on invigilation duty on sun every bit children wrote their letters, said interested contestants could ship them letters straight too. The best entries at the circle degree would travel sent to the national level. The letters volition travel assessed nether principal post original full general Shashi Shalini Kujur, who is the competition's chairperson for Jharkhand circle.
"In club to participate from Ranchi circle that covers Ranchi, Khunti, Simdega, Gumla in addition to Lohardaga, an interested someone tin post his or her missive of the alphabet on the subject addressed to Shashi Shalini Kujur, principal post original general, Meghdut Bhavan, Doranda, Ranchi 834002," he said.
Teenagers such every bit Avi, a Class X educatee of Kairali School, in addition to Class XI daughter Ashima Singh from Delhi Public School, who accept grown upwards inwards an historic stream of electronic communication in addition to social media overload, said they loved writing letters using pen in addition to paper. "Letter writing has been completely forgotten inwards the historic stream of WhatsApp in addition to Facebook," Ashima said.
Sriwani, a Class IX educatee of Kairali School, got philosophical. "Online words appear devoid of feelings," said the girl. "I loved writing the missive of the alphabet every bit it was inwards my handwriting in addition to had a human touch."
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