I got interested in the history of resignation letters and found this book. Anyone read it? amazon.com/Last-Goodbye-H
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Curiosity piqued by video I saw yesterday of a stressed out government Covid doctor in India quitting due to abuse by politicians. He used the Urdu word for resignation letter (isteefa) which got me wondering why there’s no common Sanskrit-Hindi word for it.
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The idea of resigning formally had to be invented at some point in a world of bonded labor and serfdom as a norm.
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