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 ...

As India Taps Out Final Telegram, Costa Rica Continues

The Costa Rica StarAs India Taps Out Final Telegram, Costa Rica ContinuesThe Costa Rica StarIndia recently closed a 163 year-old chapter of her communications history as a telegraphic operator tapped out that country's last telegram sent across a state-run network. As expected, the final Morse code dot/dash sequence on that last telegram ...

Ashes 2013: England v Australia, third Test live

Telegraph.co.ukAshes 2013: England v Australia, third Test liveTelegraph.co.ukIf you cast your mind back a decade - oh, go on - to Melbourne in 2002-03, then you'll remember England were cruising on day one after a heavy defeat in the previous Test. ... E-mail Lanky writes: "David Gower - keeping English cricket in the 18th ...

Death Comes to the Telegram

Americana ExchangeDeath Comes to the TelegramAmericana ExchangeThe oldest form of long-distance instantaneous communications had come to an end, roughly 170 years after its birth. A form of works on paper that carried the most important news of its day at the fastest speed existed no more. The telegram was dead ...