WRITING LETTERS – AN ANCIENT CRAFT Writing letters is a process that is as ancient as the human. Unlike humans, bees or tigers don’t write letters. Neither do chimpanzees or dinosaurs. (I’m not sure about this!) Writing letters is a brilliant way to express what you want to say. Letters not only help us to transmit messages or communicate information, but also to record our day-to-day experiences and thoughts in the form of written narratives. The first Mughal emperor wrote a series of letters in his diary Baburnama to document his life journey. Persians used to transmit war-related messages via the pigeon posts, tying their letters to the necks of their homing pigeons and fluttering them away while the trained birds carefully delivered the letters to their respective destination. Beethoven wrote love letters to an imaginary character he called as his immortal beloved. Then arrived the era of postcar...