By Mail Today Reporter
PUBLISHED: 18:18 EST, 14 July 2013 | UPDATED: 18:18 EST, 14 July 2013
India's 163-year-old telegram service - which was the harbinger of good and bad news for generations of Indians - has come to an end.
Once the fastest means of communication for millions of people, the humble telegram was on Sunday buried without any requiem but for the promise of preserving the last telegram as a museum piece.
A large number of people, many of them youngsters and first timers, turned up at the four telegraph centres in the Capital, which have almost been forgotten in recent years, to send a message to their loved ones on the last day of the service.
Started in 1850 on an experimental basis between Kolkata and Diamond Harbour, the service was made available to the public by the British East India Company in 1854.
Though started as a Morse code service, the telegram service evolved gradually with the use of computers.
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