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  Sender:  Afsana Jahin Nice Senders Location:  Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver:  Razin Haque Receiver Location:  Glasgow, UK Translation: Dear Friend, I am very glad after receiving your letter. Alhamdulillah, I am well. I was hoping to get a reply from you and now I am glad to contact you. Well, I am talking about the corona virus as per your letter. Yes, I found out at the end of January, 2020, that it originated in Wuhan, China, and started to spread like an epidemic all over the world. At first, I did not understand what these lockdowns and isolation were; But our country was preparing little from February and the lockdown started on the 18th of March. In our country and if I talk about my city, I went out very little during the lockdown and only went out to buy very essential things and medicines. I used to always go out with hand sanitizer and a mask. But many people in this country were disobedient. The administration had deployed army, RAB on the streets to punish those who roam

  Sender:  Nabil Hasan Senders Location:  Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver:  Rehaan Syed Receiver Location:  Glasgow, UK

                                         Sender:  Ali Hase Al-Amin (Mahi) Senders Location:  Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver:  Aryan Kamal Receiver Location:  Glasgow, UK Translation: Dear Ariyan, I have received your letter. Hope you are well. In your letter, you have talked about climate change. After reading you, I also felt that the climate of our city has changed a lot day by day. In Rajshahi, it is too hot during summer and unbearable cold during winter. As a result, people get confused while visiting Rajshahi. But in Rajshahi, it is better not to visit during the summer season.  But now the generation has changed and there is air conditioning in every house. Now you may be wondering how people lived in such a hot area when there was no AC. I will talk about it today. You know that Rajshahi is a city that is situated along the banks of the Padma river. In the last letter, I told you about a dilapidated building 'Boro Kuthi' on the bank of the river. If you look carefully, y

  Sender:  Sarifa islam satu Senders Location:  Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver:  Sadiya Taher Receiver Location:  Glasgow, UK

  Sender:  Samsad Jahan Senders Location:  Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver:  Suad Khan Receiver Location:  Glasgow, UK Translation:  Dear Saud,  I hope you are well. Nice to know you. I am writing to you on a lovely rainy evening. Your subject is my favourite although I don't have much idea about it. I got an opportunity to study graphic design at the Faculty of Arts, Dhaka University. But I did not study there. Now I am studying in the Department of Islamic History and Culture at Rajshahi University.  I have always been very interested in architecture, art and diverse cultures. By studying this subject, I am constantly learning about Muslim architecture, painting and Muslim culture. In the case of painting, there is an experience of learning about various images in earlier Muslim or Islamic paintings.  Again the old building mosques and their architecture are also very attractive.    And oh! you may not have been told in the first letter that I am also 23 years old. I have grown up

  Sender:  Minhazul Islam Senders Location:  Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver:  Nahian Iftekhar Receiver Location:  Glasgow, UK Translation: Dear Nahian,  I have not been able to write to you for a long time. Finally, I sat down to write to you today.  Hope you are doing well.  I'm fine too. I have read your letter.  You wanted to know about covid-19 and the negative aspects of the pandemic days.  It was horrible. In fact, I shudder when I remember the days of the Covid-19 pandemic.  We have had an incredible time. Though many negative things have come to the fore during the days of the Corona pandemic, this pandemic has given us some positive messages.  It reminded us how much we have oppressed our mother nature  Not only that, this pandemic has made us realize how far we are moving away from our loved ones day by day as we keep up growing our bonding with mechanization. This epidemic has also sent a message to the extent to which our future generations are going to be at risk due to

  Sender:  Md. Mahadi Hasan Jony Senders Location:  Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver:  Zidan Imtiaz Receiver Location:  Glasgow, UK Translation: Hello Zidan, Hope you are well. I got your letter. I am very glad to know that you are very concerned about your study and very ambitious to fulfill your dreams. Alhamdulillah, I completed my Honors last may. Hopefully, I'm going to start my MA degree. The student life is slowly coming to an end where the   life is getting busy. Overall the life is changing like a metal, like the diversity of six seasons. Overall, I expect from life is that may I live a happy and beautiful life as long as I'm alive. Hope I will meet you when you come to visit my country. Till then stay well and pray for me. Your loving friend Mahadi Hasan

  Sender:  Mariom Bentee Rahman Senders Location:  Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver:  Sahil Amin Receiver Location:  Glasgow, UK Translation: Hello Sahil,  I hope you are well. I received your letter a few days ago.  It's nice to finally know who I'm writing to.  I was impressed with the way you described the traditions of Scotland - especially the food, clothing and mythological characters in your letter.  While reading your letter, it kept coming to my mind that,   "Hey! Wait! This is also in our Bengali tradition!"   Well, well, it would be wrong to say that because things are not the same. There are just some similarities.  Like you said about food, Haggis.  When we hear the name of the food, the name of Scotland comes to our mind, similarly, when we hear Hilsa fish and Panta rice, the word Bengali comes to our mind.  Since my country,  Bangladesh is a riverine country, fish is an integral part of our lifestyle and Panta rice is basically socked rice or rice with wat