Radio and Postal service changed the History of Communication
The history of communication dates back to Phoenicians who developed hand written alphabets followed by Sumerians.
When Marconi and Samuel Morse invented Radio and Telegraph,they must not have thought that the future generation will be so dependent on both the services in the coming decades and centuries.Radio was invented in 1930s and telegraph much beyond that in the 1800s. Even after the invention of Television,Mobile phone and internet, Radio and & Postal service holds its position as evergreen plants.Technology has developed so much in all these years,but we still seek the postal service for sending registered documents,money orders etc. to suburban areas.Radio and postal service has become inevitable in our lives for the last so many decades. It is still amusing to think that the first medium of information which reached human ears was through radio. Before the print media reached the unreachable, radio frequencies affirmed their position.Even the illiterate and the literate lot started listening to the radio for what is happening around the locality, the nation and around the world.It reached the ears of the unknown and the uneducated which has become the source of information and knowledge.It still reins our hearts with music,news and daily and weekly programmes which we used to include in our day today schedule. I am a keen listener of radio FM channels right from childhood.That was my main medium of information.I still remember me and my younger brother tuning English stations and listening to the VOA news and Radio Australia Weekly Top hits. Our grandma was a keen listener of the Weekly drama programme on every saturday and at night it is my Dad's turn to listen to some carnatic classical recital or Man chahe geeth in Vividh Bharathi. I don't miss to tune in to Vividh Bharathi Channel at least once in a week that ,while in bed back in my childhood days, I learned all the good old songs of Lathaji,Mukeshji and Rafi ji by listening to that "Man chahe geeth Kaaryakram" of that Radio channel which I owe all my respect and affection as they were the lullaby songs which put me to good sleep and after years like our mother's lullaby it remains in me forever and forever.
We owe the same to the postal service. Atleast once in everybody's life most of us must have been to the post office to send parcels,to send money orders or registered letters or to purchase stamps and envelopes. We used to send application forms, exam fees etc may be till the 80s through postal service.We were dependent on the postal service then and now. I went to the post office recently to send a money order to a temple, I was so delighted and I felt the same as I did the day when I did start writing on a new book,in the school, the words neatly flowing out of my fingers.
While our fingers are busy on the keyboards facing the monitor, and cell phones on our ears, a song or the noise of radio frequency will suddenly make us turn our ears and listen to what next?Or waiting for the Post man ringing his bicycle bell with a blue inland letter in his hand,the much awaited message.Not an sms or email, reaching us instantly but it is the long awaited hand written message which made us happy and relished in our memories for a life time.
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