According to The Telegraph, the 1980s were the golden years for telegram service in India; more than 1,00,000 telegrams were sent and received per day at Delhi main office alone. But today it’s barely 1,00,000 a day, with the country of more than a billion population.

July 15 will mark the end of telegraph service and also an end of an era that lasted for 160 years. And most of Indians, including school children and a bevy of Bollywood personalities like Kunal Kapoor, Javed Akhter are on telegramming spree, keeping the post office officials on their toes, who are working hard on telegrams for the last time. And India will be the last country to send a telegram and to stop the service.      

The telegram system started deteriorating with the wide spread use of land line phones first and now with the advent of mobile, where you can not only communicated through voice but also by video, there’s no reason left to keep alive the already fossilized service. But then the telegram nostalgia will linger for time to come.

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