India To Send World's Last Telegram 205
New submitter afarhan writes "India will pull the plug on its 160-year-old telegram service on 14 July, this year. This will probably be the last telegram ever sent in the world. However, telegrams are still relevant in this vast country. More than 500 million people are still without access to a phone or Internet. For these people, telegram still remains the only digital communication available. 'At their peak in 1985, 60 million telegrams were being sent and received a year in India from 45,000 offices. Today, only 75 offices exist, though they are located in each of India's 671 districts through franchises. And an industry that once employed 12,500 people, today has only 998 workers.' In India, telegram is also considered a legal correspondence."
The Last Telegram (Score:5, Funny)
Required Telegram Joke (Score:5, Funny)
Telegrams make more sense in Hindi (Score:0, Funny)
It's a little know fact that in Hindi, all words can be formed from "uh" and "duh" very rapidly, thus a telegram slightly modified to sound like "uh duhduhduh uhhh duhduhduh uh duh duhduh" translates almost directly to "Thank you, come again."
MIGRATING (Score:5, Funny)
TELEGRAPH SERVICE SHUTTING DOWN TELL MOTHER RAJESH MUST LEARN TWITTER FOLLOW ME AT ANAND UNDERSCORE BANDYOPADHYAY STOP
(Silly filter, telegrams *are* printed in all caps). Lorem ipsum something something dies irae dies illa solvet seclum in favilla.