Thursday 20 June 2013

Bye, Bye, Dear Telegram


Bye, Bye, Dear Telegram 

The telegram is now officially dead. Regarded for many years as the harbinger of really important  news, both good and bad,one looks back, sometimes with joy,  other times  with dread, when one thinks of the telegram. A relative lost, a job gained, a birth or a celebration, all warranting a time consuming trip to the telegraph office, to get the message to near and dear ones, in the days before the arrival of the ubiquitous gadgets , that we now know as phones, pods and tablets. 

It seems , as time goes by, that I am indeed lucky to belong to this generation of people who has experienced the slow, languorous way of living, with no pressure on time , to find myself now catapulted into the exciting world of fast games, racy cars, joysticks, and what have you, all available at the press of a button, or a fingertouch even. 

And so, I have moved, as has an entire generation of old- timers, from the good ol' world of waiting , to the world of instant gratification. From the time when a telegram was a luxury, and a telephone, decadence.And have been fortunate enough to have traversed two worlds of existence, in one lifetime !

Regards
Aina Rao
The amblingindian.

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  2. But sometime i feel very sad. I do not remember when I last my last letter to My mother,father,sister,brother and any person. I am not mentioning my wife here because I never wrote letter to her. The advent of technology,Telephone,pager,mobile etc. The joy of writing a letter had mesmerizing impact. I am from Uttarakhand where many of the people of my father's generation were in Army and Telegram never brought good news. In those days we had no TV (TV came later with only DD even in IIT days). We had ample time to read or listen Radio and do more analysis. But our next generation has less analytical power . Thanks to Google Baba,TV,Ipad etc. .. Read my blog also rkblogspot.blogspot.in

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  3. But sometime i feel very sad. I do not remember when I last my last letter to My mother,father,sister,brother and any person. I am not mentioning my wife here because I never wrote letter to her. The advent of technology,Telephone,pager,mobile etc. The joy of writing a letter had mesmerizing impact. I am from Uttarakhand where many of the people of my father's generation were in Army and Telegram never brought good news. In those days we had no TV (TV came later with only DD even in IIT days). We had ample time to read or listen Radio and do more analysis. But our next generation has less analytical power . Thanks to Google Baba,TV,Ipad etc. .. Read my blog also rkblogspot.blogspot.in

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