Venkaiah Naidu bats for ‘letter writing day’

“Hand-written letters have an emotional value for us. This is at risk of being lost completely in this age of electronic keyboards. This generation or future generations may not know this at all,” he said at an event here. 

“Can we not have a hand-written letter writing day across India? Let us say that everybody will write a letter to their friend or relative on that day. But that letter must be hand written,” he said after formally inaugurating the Telangana Postal Circle. The Union Information and Broadcasting Minister recalled “that red letter box, symbol of India Post, was more important in our times than today. In those days there was no e-mail, no mobile phones, etc. But as against popular misconception, post has defied the rise of internet and mobile telephony.” 

Letter writing or correspondences as a literary discipline can be attributed to post office, Naidu said, adding that the letters of many great leaders, authors, and social worker are part of the nation’s intellectual and emotional heritage. Post has played a major role in shaping of modern India, he added.