February 12, 2024
Letter Writing – পত্র লিখন – Bengali – WBCS Main Question Paper
Contents
WBCS Main Question Paper – Bengali – Letter Writing
- নিম্নলিখিত যে কোন একটি বিষয় সম্পর্কে আপনার অভিমত কোনো বাংলা দৈনিক পত্রিকার সম্পাদকের কাছে অনধিক ১৫০ শব্দের মধ্যে পত্রাকারে বিবৃত করুন : 40
- (নাম ঠিকানার পরিবর্তে X Y Z লিখুন)
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2022
(ক) প্লাস্টিক বর্জনের প্রয়োজনীয়তা
(খ) জনজীবনে ফেসবুকের প্রভাব
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2021
(ক) বিশ্ব জলদিবস : জলসমস্যা ও সমাধান
(খ) পর্যটন শিল্পে অতিমারীর প্রভাব
(গ) সাম্প্রতিক বিজ্ঞাপনের ভাষা
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2020
(ক) অতিমারি ও কুসংস্কার
(খ) ধর্ম এবং ধর্মান্ধতা
(গ) শিক্ষায় মাতৃভাষার গুরুত্ব
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2019
(ক) যুবসমাজে মোবাইল ফোনের অতিরিক্ত ব্যবহার ও তার কুফল
(খ) বর্তমানে বাংলার নারীর অগ্রগতি
(গ) প্রবীণ নাগরিকদের নিঃসঙ্গতা ও অসহায়তা দূর করার জন্য সামাজিক উদ্যোগের প্রয়োজনীয়তা
Answer Guide
(ক) যুবসমাজে মোবাইল ফোনের অতিরিক্ত ব্যবহার ও তার কুফল
Quotation
- “A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives.” – Munia Khan
- “Cell phone: a private convenience that has become a public nuisance.” – Richard E. Turner
- সেল ফোন: একটি ব্যক্তিগত সুবিধা যা জনসাধারণের উপদ্রব হয়ে উঠেছে
- “Your cell phone has already replaced your camera, your calendar and your alarm clock. Don’t let it replace your family.”
- আপনার সেল ফোন ইতিমধ্যে আপনার ক্যামেরা, আপনার ক্যালেন্ডার এবং আপনার অ্যালার্ম ঘড়ি প্রতিস্থাপন করেছে। এটি আপনার পরিবার প্রতিস্থাপন করতে দেবেন না
- “Cell phones these days keep getting thinner and smarter people the opposite.”
Answer Guide
(খ) বর্তমানে বাংলার নারীর অগ্রগতি
- Women empowerment – Government initiative in West Bengal
- Women in India
- Government is pushing for women’s empowerment in India
- The History of Women’s Education in India
- Global Gender Gap Index
Quotation
- “A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.” – Hillary Clinton
- “There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.” – Kofi Annan
Answer Guide
(গ) প্রবীণ নাগরিকদের নিঃসঙ্গতা ও অসহায়তা দূর করার জন্য সামাজিক উদ্যোগের প্রয়োজনীয়তা
- How Is Life For Senior Citizens In A Rapidly Changing India
- Social isolation, loneliness in older people pose health risks
- Things To Do When Dealing With Loneliness At An Old Age
- Japan’s lonely seniors are the tip of a global epidemic of senior loneliness
- Japan is fighting back against loneliness among the elderly
- China’s senior citizens flock back to school
Quotation
- “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” – Joseph Fort Newton
- “Old Age homes are civilization’s dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “One becomes rather desperate for visitors, when one has lost the the power to visit.” – Kate Morton
- “Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2018
(ক) বিজ্ঞানমনস্কতা ও কুসংস্কার
(খ) পরিবেশ দূষণ ও তার প্রতিকার
(গ) নারী নির্যাতন : ঘরে ও বাইরে
Answer Guide
(ক) বিজ্ঞানমনস্কতা ও কুসংস্কার
- Popularising science and fighting superstition
- What is Scientism?
- Science & Superstition
- In Age of Science, Is Religion ‘Harmful Superstition’?
Quotation
- “What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.” – Alice Walker
- “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.” – Montaigne
- “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” – Adam Smith
- “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” – Francis Bacon
Answer Guide
(খ) পরিবেশ দূষণ ও তার প্রতিকার
- Pollution
- 21 of the world’s 30 cities with the worst air pollution are in India
- Our planet is drowning in plastic pollution
- How you and your government can tackle air pollution
- India Launches a National Clean Air Program
- Water pollution in India
- Swachh Bharat Mission
Quotation
- “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” – Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- “Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted” – Amit Abraham
- “Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.” – Al Gore
- “Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.” – Patti Smith
Answer Guide
(গ) নারী নির্যাতন : ঘরে ও বাইরে
- Violence against women and girls: the shadow pandemic
- Trolling Verified: Troll Patrol India’s Findings On Online Abuse
- India’s abuse of women is the biggest human rights violation on Earth
Quotation
- Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. – Charlotte Bunch
- “The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.” – Naomi Wolf
- “Where women are respected, there flourishes civilization.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “Why couldn’t she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?” – Cecelia Ahern
- “I look forward to the day we stop saying ‘me too’ and start saying ‘never again.” – Eva Darrows
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2017
(ক) জীবনে সাহিত্য পাঠের ভূমিকা ।
(খ) জন জীবনে গণমাধ্যমের প্রভাবের দুইদিক ।
(গ) শিক্ষার মাধ্যম হিসাবে মাতৃভাষার গুরুত্ব ।
Answer Guide
(ক) জীবনে সাহিত্য পাঠের ভূমিকা
Quotation
- “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Keillor
- “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
- “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” -Vera Nazarian
- “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
- “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” – Kofi Annan
Answer Guide
(খ) জন জীবনে গণমাধ্যমের প্রভাবের দুইদিক
- Influence of mass media
- Impact of Media and Technology on Society
- Role of Media in Society
- Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media in India
- India drops down on World Press Freedom Index
Quotation
- “If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.” Hillary Clinton
- “If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.” Julian Assange
- “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind” – Jim Morriso
- “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” – Joseph Stalin
- “The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.” – Jon Stewart
Answer Guide
(গ) শিক্ষার মাধ্যম হিসাবে মাতৃভাষার গুরুত্ব
- The importance of mother tongue in education
- The Importance of mother tongue-based schooling for educational quality
Quotation
- “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “For us Indians, I don’t think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.” – Kailash Kher
- “I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.” – Shreya Ghoshal
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2016
(ক) ভারতের বিভিন্ন প্রান্তে খরা : সরকারের ভূমিকা ।
(খ) ভারতের উন্নয়নের ক্ষেত্রে সবচেয়ে বড় বাধা দুর্নীতি ।
(গ) ছাত্র আন্দোলন ও বৃহত্তর জনজীবনে তার প্রভাব ।
Answer Guide
(ক) ভারতের বিভিন্ন প্রান্তে খরা : সরকারের ভূমিকা
- A brief on drought
- 42% of India’s land area under drought, 500 mn people severely affected
- Programmes, Schemes & New Initiatives
Quotation
- “We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.” – Warren Eyster
- “Without water, life would just be rock.” – Anthony T. Hincks
- “I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.” – Bo-Young Kim
- “The earth was thirsty, with the memories of trees long cut, and it’s surface hardened, that long since rain soaked.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
- “It was raining on a drought field. Not from the sky. It was raining from the farmers eye.”
Answer Guide
(খ) ভারতের উন্নয়নের ক্ষেত্রে সবচেয়ে বড় বাধা দুর্নীতি
- Corruption still the biggest obstacle for entrepreneurs in India
- How Corruption Affects Emerging Economies
- Corruption in India
- How to stop corruption : 5 key ingredients
Quotation
- “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” – mahatma Gandhi
- “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.” – Henry Kissinger
- “To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.” – G. Edward Griffin
- “Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.” – Che Guevara
- “Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.” – William Gaddis
Answer Guide
(গ) ছাত্র আন্দোলন ও বৃহত্তর জনজীবনে তার প্রভাব
Quotation
- “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.” – Bob Marley
- “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2015
(ক) নির্মল প্রযুক্তি (গ্রিন টেকনলজি) ও ভারত ।
(খ) পরিবেশ পর্যটনে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের ভূমিকা ।
(গ) নারী নিগ্রহ ও নির্বিকার সমাজ ।
Answer Guide
(ক) নির্মল প্রযুক্তি (গ্রিন টেকনলজি) ও ভারত
- Green Technology – What is it?
- Environmental technology
- Energy, green technology to define New India
- Renewable energy in India
Quotation
- “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
- “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Chief Seattle
- “When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can’t eat money.” – John May
Answer Guide
(খ) পরিবেশ পর্যটনে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের ভূমিকা
- Eco Tourism & trails in West Bengal, India with Bengal Tourism
- Eco-Tourism Of West Bengal
- What is Ecotourism?
- Benefits of Ecotourism
Quotation
- “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson
- “When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.” – Lakota proverb
- “How is it possible that the most intellectual creature to ever walk the planet Earth is destroying its only home?” – Jane Goodall
- “We never notices the beauty of nature because we were too busy trying to re-create it”
Answer Guide
(গ) নারী নিগ্রহ ও নির্বিকার সমাজ
- Basis of Women’s Oppression
- Oppression and Women’s History
- Silence and powerlessness go hand in hand – women’s voices must be heard
- The saga of women’s status in ancient Indian civilization
- How Were Women Oppressed During the Ancient and Medieval India
Quotation
- “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron
- “Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you.” – Michelle Obama
- “‘You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?’ Aunty Ifeka said. ‘Your life belongs to you and you alone.’” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
- “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2014
(ক) কলকাতার উন্নতি করানো সম্ভব হবে না নাগরিক চেতনার স্বতঃস্ফুর্ত জাগরণ না ঘটলে ।
(খ) আমাদের জাতীয় সংহতি ও ঐক্যের মূলে প্রধান বাধা সাম্প্রদায়িক ভেদবুদ্ধি ।
(গ) নির্বাচন কমিশন ও ভারতের জনমানসে তার প্রভাব ।
(ঘ) ভারতের বৈদেশিক বাণিজ্য নীতি ।
Answer Guide
(ক) কলকাতার উন্নতি করানো সম্ভব হবে না নাগরিক চেতনার স্বতঃস্ফুর্ত জাগরণ না ঘটলে
- Citizen engagement makes a city smart, not infrastructure
- Government can’t do it alone: Time is ripe for creating a market for citizen volunteering in our cities
- Society for Socio Economic and Ecological Development (SEED)
Quotation
- “Calcutta has still not recovered from history” people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.” – Amit Chaudhuri
- “Calcutta is beautiful. Wherever you place a camera, you get a vision.” – Pradeep Sarkar
- “Growth for the sake of growth, is the ideology of the cancer cell” – Edward Abbey
- “Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be” – Candy Chang
Answer Guide
(খ) আমাদের জাতীয় সংহতি ও ঐক্যের মূলে প্রধান বাধা সাম্প্রদায়িক ভেদবুদ্ধি
- National Integration Council
- Communalism in India
- Communalism – Meaning and Issues
- Communalism in India: Causes and Solution
- Mahatma Gandhi on Problem of Communalism
Quotation
- “Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can’t afford divisive polity in India.” – Manmohan Singh
- “I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.” – Francis Schaeffer
- “Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “I care not about science, I care not about spirituality, all I care about is service of humanity.” – Abhijit Naskar
Answer Guide
(গ) নির্বাচন কমিশন ও ভারতের জনমানসে তার প্রভাব
Quotation
- “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best” – Otto von Bismarck
- “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.” – Paul Collier
Answer Guide
(ঘ) ভারতের বৈদেশিক বাণিজ্য নীতি
- Foreign trade of India
- Foreign Trade Policy of India
- India’s International Trade Policy – EXIM Policy
- List of the largest trading partners of India
Quotation
- “The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.” – Adam Smith
- “Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.” – Tim Bishop
- “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations…entangling alliances with none” – Thomas Jefferson
Letter Writing Format
মাননীয় সম্পাদক মহাশয় সমীপেষু
আনন্দ বাজার পত্রিকা
৬ প্রফুল্ল সরকার স্ট্রিট
কলকাতা : ৭০০০০১
বিষয় : বর্তমানে বাংলার নারীর অগ্রগতি
মহাশয়,
আপনার বহুল প্রচারিত পত্রিকার মাধ্যমে আমি বর্তমানে বাংলার নারীর অগ্রগতি বিষয় আমার মতামত প্রকাশ করতে চাই। আশা করি, আমি আপনার অনুগ্রহ থেকে বঞ্চিত হবো না।
2nd Part – Topic explanation + Quotation
- Quotation
- Don’t start with a quotation ……. Cause everyone do that.
- Using quotation is good but not mandatory.
- We can use it within the writing.
- Don’t try to explain the quotation, use it to support the topic.
- Try some different and recent quotation from internet.
- Finding Bengali quotation on resent topic is hard to find on internet.
- So use translated quotation.
- Write in the support of the topic and explain topic in 1st part.
- Example – In this case we must write about progress of women in West Bengal, like literacy rate, corporate and industry participation, political participation etc.
- Most of the time editorial letter talks about the problems faced by people in the society.
- Example – “যুবসজে মোবাইল ফোনের অতিরিক্ত ব্যবহার ও তার কুফল”
- Add some actual data to support your claims – current affairs will help you here.
- Govt. reports can be best source for data.
- Use 60 to 70 words here.
3rd Part – Show the Other Side
- This part will be negative part or contradictory part of 1st part.
- Example – Write about the problems that women are facing in corporate life, still there are child and force marriage, unequal support in family etc.
- So, here we may write about the problems in the society or solutions.
- But it must show the opposite side than 1st part of the letter.
- If we are writing about any problem in society, then we will talk about the good things or solutions in 2nd part.
- Use 40 to 50 words.
4th Part – Visions & Conclusion
- How govt. or other organizations are supporting to overcome those problems – Mention 1-2 govt. schemes or visionary work.
- Give a future idea or your hope about future in 1-2 sentence.
- Conclude the total topic.
- Use 30 to 40 words.
- Last line example :
- আপনার পত্রিকায় পত্রটি প্রকাশ করে বাধিত করবেন।
Important Points
- Be yourself, when writing …… but don’t try to establish your ego.
- We must be natural, and unbiased as a civil servant.
- So, try to show double side of the topic.
- Don’t try to copy from any book …….. It will match with other papers.
- So read newspapers for to know what types of words or writing skills are used in newspaper actually.
- So, try to be different ……Try to be stand out.
- Use simple words for writing ……….. Don’t try to be William Shakespeare.
- Under line the data part to help examiner to find out some reasons to give you good marks.
- You will have minimum 30 min to write the letter.
- Take your time to think proper sentence and write.
- You may write the letter as rough work, but if you have proper practice, you don’t need it.
- Show your best hand writing skill to impress examiner.
- So, write slowly, clearly and beautifully.
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