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Writing love notes
A group of Indian romantics in Kolkata are to hold an online love-letter writing contest, coinciding with Valentine's Day, to revive what it says is the dying practice of love note exchanges. The contest set to run from February 14 to 22 was aimed at countering today's practice of sending each other short messages over mobile phones, the Lovers'Organisation for Voluntary Exhibition (LOVE) said recently. ``Writing love-letters is an art and a nicely-written letter is something a person cherishes throughout his life,'' LOVE president Rupak Manush told Reuters. "A message sent over a cell phone can never be a replacement for a letter to communicate how one feels for his loved one. The love-letter writing contest is an attempt to revive the practice of sending letters,'' he added. A jury headed by Indian novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay would judge the letters and the best 100 letters would be published in book form.
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MANDIRA MODDIE
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