A Letter to Santa Claus

Letter to Santa CLAUS

Prof. M Zahidul Haque and Tanzila Rahman

Dear Santa,

Traditionally, people, both children and elders write letters to you on different issues. Children mostly send letters inviting you to visit their homes and present them lovely Christmas gifts.

Meanwhile Santa, it doesn’t matter what’s your origin but today you become an universal cultural icon, a secular figure, and a symbol of peace, joy, giving and caring for other people.

Tanzila Rahman

Throughout the year, you and your elves work hard to make toys to gift to children on the Christmas Eve. You teach children the character of giving and doing good ignoring the bad. You brings magic to life, embodies the spiritual joy we share with our fellow human-beings. You stand as the beacon of peace and unity among people of different culture to mitigating conflicts and racism.

So, Santa, you possess great human qualities. But we wonder whether you think for the children living in war-trodden areas, for instance, presently Gaza and Palestine where innocent children are dying every moment due to Israel-Hamas war? Thousands of children are being killed, thousand other critically injured and struggling to survive without any medical assistance/hospitals, passing their uncertain days and nights under open sky as their homes have been destroyed.

They have no drinking water, no electricity and all other civic amenities! Also, the children of war-trodden Ukraine are suffering a lot due to Russia-Ukraine war. The famine and climate change affected children in Africa are leading a very painful life because of scarcity of food. Again, children living in different refugee camps including those in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh are passing their days under-nourished and living in inhumane condition.

So, dear Santa, the purpose of writing this letter is to ask you whether you have any thought in your mind to do something for the welfare of the above-mentioned unfortunate children? Do you have any plan to give some gifts in this Christmas to them so that they can enjoy a peaceful life with their parents as normally enjoyed by the free children of the world?

Thank you.

Your Connoisseurs.