No.7G, Rainbow Colony,
MG Road, Dharavi,
Mumbai – 17.
29/11/2008.
My dear Father,
You’ll
be glad to know that I am thoroughly prepared for the ensuring S.S.C examination.
I don’t know your plans about my future education. May I share with you my
thought about the course of study I would like to take next year?
As you
are aware, the general tendency among the good students today is to opt for the
study of science. Their aim, generally approved of by their parents and
guardians, is to become engineers and doctors. As a result of this tendency,
which has prevailed several years, there is unemployment among science
graduates, especially engineers.
I, for one, wish to choose the Arts Course. Not that I am
weak in science subjects. The important point is that I am passionately
interested in humanities, in literature, history and politics. The study of
humanities has a cultural value and teaches us the art of living. It also
offers, good job opportunities, provided one does well, as I hope to do, in the
examinations. I wish to be a journalist, and the study of subjects like
literature and politics will be an asset to me in my career.
Let us
talk over this matter in greater detail after I come home.
Please
give my love to Mum, Veena and Nazim.
Yours
affectionately,
Sudhir. 