SOURCE: BBC News
7-15-13
tags: BBC News, India, telegrams, communications
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7-15-13
Remembering telegram's rich history
Breaking Newstags: BBC News, India, telegrams, communications
The closure of India's 163-year-old telegraph service has sparked a feeling of nostalgia in newspapers.
The government on Sunday night ended the service, triggering a last-minute rush at telegraph offices as people came to send a "nostalgic last telegram" to their loved ones.
"Curtains came down on Sunday night on the 163-year-old telegram service in the country - the harbinger of good and bad news for generations of Indians - amid a last minute rush of people thronging telegraph offices to send souvenir messages to family and friends," the India Today website reports....
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