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Writing to The Prime Minister: A Wonderful Learning Experience!

It was an ordinary Maths double period at school yesterday when our co-curricular activities in-charge walked hurriedly into the room. We were surprised! The Dussehra break had just come to an eventful close the day before yesterday and we hadn't really expected the organisation of a co-curricular activity so soon after the reopening.That's when she made the big announcement. A firm declaration was made that a friend of mine and I had been chosen from our section of ninth grade, to represent the school in a letter writing competition. Of course, we thought that this would just be another of those competitions where they wanted to see your writing skills and just how wide your boundaries of the ever-growing English vocabulary could possibly stretch to. However, the next piece of news stunned us! We had been chosen to express our 'Mann Ki Baat' in the form of a letter which would directly be sent to The Prime Minister! 'Mann Ki Baat' had been organised as a mo