Telegrams Saar, Telegram .... till a decade ago, these two words were the most dreaded ones even during the daytime. Imagine one's plight if the knock comes after dark. Those days, a telegram meant a carrier of death news only. Everyone was "scared" to receive a telegram as it portended bad news. However that was the only quick way to communicate those days. Normal telegrams, meaning those carrying normal news like someone's arrival, were not delivered after the sunset - the black telegrams, carrying death news, were accorded XXX priority and were delivered 24 hours. Telegrams, invented by Samuel Morse (1791 - 1872), carried also the news about arrivals (though there is the standing joke that the person would in fact actually arrive before the telegram was delivered !), and interviews. Even in mid 1990s I remember ARUN receiving his offer of employment, and ASHOK receiving his selection to MCA course at Hyd Univ through telegrams only.Apart from such normal and XXX te...