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 ...
Sender: Nahian Iftekhar Senders Location: Glasgow, UK Receiver: Minhazul Islam Receiver Location: Rajshahi, Bangladesh Hey there! I hope things are going great for you and I’m really excited to write this letter to you! It’s been quite a while since I wrote a letter to anyone about anything so I apologize beforehand if there are a few mistakes here and there. Like many people born in the 90s, the last few years were quite challenging, mostly thanks to COVID-19, one of the deadliest pandemics in the 21 st century. We’ll talk about that soon. Before that, let me tell you a little about ‘pandemics’. Although the definition of a pandemic is broad and debatable, generally any physical and mental health conditions that extend over large geographic locations, that could be transmitted from one place to another, has a high attack rate, have minimal population immunity, and is widely infectious could be called a pandemic. In that sense, COVID-19, AIDS, Cholera, Den...
Sender: Nahian Iftekhar Senders Location: Glasgow, UK Receiver: Minhazul Islam Receiver Location: Rajshahi, Bangladesh Dear Minhaz, As I’m writing this letter, I’m still mesmerized about your letter. You talked about your favorite river as if it was your friend, not just a river flowing through the land to meet its end at the ocean. Reading your letter also made me want to meet your friend and walk along its banks. Someday maybe. As the month of April is passing by, the first thing it reminds me of is Pohela Boisakh, the first day of Bengali New year is on the horizon. Growing up in Dhaka, Pohela Boisakh has always been a festive occasion in our family. I used to wake up, freshen up and start the day by eating panta bhaat and mach. Although the trend nowadays has been to eat Ilish maach, my mother used to cook multiple fish es on those special occasions. On some years we used to join the Mongol Shovajatra organized by the students at the Institute o...
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