After 163 years of delivering life

New Europe (blog)After 163 years of delivering life-changing news, India's telegram service ...New Europe (blog)On Monday, the state-run telecommunications company will send its final telegram, closing down a service that fast became a relic in an age of email, reliable landlines and ubiquitous cellphones. ... Just 30 years ago the telegram was king in India ...

Sorry, Fox: Birmingham Isnt Muslim

Daily BeastSorry, Fox: Birmingham Isnt Muslim-OnlyDaily BeastPARIS — The slaughter of journalists, the murders of cops, and the savage executions of Jewish shoppers in Paris last week are forcing the security and intelligence services in Europe and the United States to reexamine their assumptions about the ...

Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead

Daily BeastPoliticians Only Love Journalists When They're DeadDaily BeastEarlier last year, both the United States Department of Justice and the White House Press Office took home top dishonors at Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression for their efforts in vigorously prosecuting government ...

Terror, Performance and Anxieties of Our Times: Reading Rustom Bharucha and ...

GroundviewsTerror, Performance and Anxieties of Our Times: Reading Rustom Bharucha and ...GroundviewsDry local political humor very soon informed us that people were trying to get inside the bombed out telegraph office hoping that they could get free phone calls to their relatives in the Middle East as they had heard telephones were dangling from the ...

Vanishing messengers

Saudi GazetteVanishing messengersSaudi GazetteFor decades he penned the missives of Mumbai's illiterate workers, whether lovers pledging devotion to faraway sweethearts or criminals sending home money while concealing their trade. Today, Ahmed is lucky if he gets to write an ... In July, India ...

Mumbai's last generation of letter writers signs out

Economic TimesMumbai's last generation of letter writers signs outEconomic TimesFor decades he penned the missives of Mumbai's illiterate workers, whether lovers pledging devotion to faraway sweethearts or prostitutes sending home money while concealing their trade. Today, Ahmed is lucky if he gets to write an ... In July, India ...

Mumbai's last generation of letter writers signs out

AFPMumbai's last generation of letter writers signs outAFPFor decades he penned the missives of Mumbai's illiterate workers, whether lovers pledging devotion to faraway sweethearts or prostitutes sending home money while concealing their trade. Today, Ahmed is lucky if he gets to ... While the tools of his ...