With the demise of the telegram, I can’t help but recall how this humble and jumbled piece of paper once played a very significant role in the successful discharge of duties by an outstation or overseas press correspondent. The telegram then was a prerequisite for a correspondent as that was the sole medium he could use for sending his stories.

The Central Telegraph Office at Fort will send the last telegram today, closing down a 160-year-old service. Pics/Sayed Sameer Abedi