Few weeks ago I was digging my cupboard to relish my childhood pictures and other letters my grandparents and cousins wrote for me. As I was flipping through the bundle of pages, a small rectangular paper fell. It read ‘Delivered a girl baby. Both are fine’ – it was a telegram sent by my maternal to paternal grandfather when I was born. I was so happy seeing it as I have not seen a telegram in my life. I know back then, there was a ‘telegram culture’ when our communications were sunken deep. Many emotions were tied to that piece of paper which used to come across many paths. At that time postman would look like God of communication. A salute those postmen who did an amazing job with the invention of telegram.
I personally have not received a telegram nor have sent it. I honestly do not know how it functions. Yet, it was so nice to hear from my mom about the telegrams they used to send and receive like 40 years back.
I felt bad to know that this 163 old culture of the great communication has been officially stopped in India – guess effective July 14th 2013. I was not a part of this culture but, I definitely want it to be alive, as this is the biggest history that unfolds how our great grand parents lived with communications.
Email, mobiles, landlines, sms, whatsapp, viber, chats etc have unquestionably made our today’s communication faster and effective. Still, there are certain things which should never be killed just because we have grown huge in communications.
Already handwritten letters have been dying and now the oldest hero of communication has died. Now, the future generations will not know the term ‘Telegram’ unless they Google out. Sad
I am happy to have been born in the age where I have seen life without internet/communication advances and with everything at once.
If you find a nice telegram in your home, please do frame it, because that will be the only personal proof for the coming generations. ‘RIP Telegrams.’ I never missed you but I do now.
I personally have not received a telegram nor have sent it. I honestly do not know how it functions. Yet, it was so nice to hear from my mom about the telegrams they used to send and receive like 40 years back.
I felt bad to know that this 163 old culture of the great communication has been officially stopped in India – guess effective July 14th 2013. I was not a part of this culture but, I definitely want it to be alive, as this is the biggest history that unfolds how our great grand parents lived with communications.
Email, mobiles, landlines, sms, whatsapp, viber, chats etc have unquestionably made our today’s communication faster and effective. Still, there are certain things which should never be killed just because we have grown huge in communications.
Already handwritten letters have been dying and now the oldest hero of communication has died. Now, the future generations will not know the term ‘Telegram’ unless they Google out. Sad
I am happy to have been born in the age where I have seen life without internet/communication advances and with everything at once.
If you find a nice telegram in your home, please do frame it, because that will be the only personal proof for the coming generations. ‘RIP Telegrams.’ I never missed you but I do now.
2 comments:
Just like vintage cars n bikes.... Telegrams could have been a classic way of communication.... Anyways.... "NICE BLOG MUCH APPRECIATED" ;-)
Vintage cars and bikes never died. They just got old. Telegrams died :(
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