Even as authorities are preparing to bring down the shutters on India’s 163-year-old telegram service from July 14, as faster, more modern communication methods take over from ‘Slow Joe’, there are some who are understandably upset about the impending demise.

Suddenly this not-a-minute-to-spare city, which certainly does not move at telegram pace, seems awash in nostalgia for what is commonly known as a ‘taar’. The press corps has moved in full steam to bring readers stories about the telegram. Bollywood film actor Kunal Kapoor bid goodbye to telegram by using his final telegram to help animals in laboratories used for cosmetics testing.