tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152089060931349370.post1077671448647417355..comments2024-01-18T13:57:33.369+05:30Comments on Uttarakhand and I: Bharatiya DaakUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152089060931349370.post-29750809712334832492009-06-18T16:04:20.336+05:302009-06-18T16:04:20.336+05:30not a losing one-
at the pune GPO, one can write a...not a losing one-<br />at the pune GPO, one can write an email, it reaches the other place right away; then, someone prints it out and delivers it to the addressee and she can read your email even if she does not own a computer!<br />the very Catholic Indian post, not only embracing new technology here, but also marrying it to a traditional way.. isn't that something?<br /><br />thanks for this post. it brought many things for me.<br /><br />a song- <br />unlike the woman in your photograph, this woman cannot read and write so she tells the postman, who as you know in may villages even writes your letters for you-<br />kore kaagaz pe likh de naam Babu,<br />woh jaan jaayenge<br /><br />she's too shy to dictate her message so she tells the daak-babu to just write her name on a blank paper- <br />her man will know what she wants to say.<br /><br />and,<br />a poem in school which my Goan catholic teacher insisted be sung in a tune which she had set-<br />well, 'borrowed' from a hindi film song really,<br /><br />a few months ago, almost 30 years after she made us repeat it ,<br />i found myself humming it.<br /><br />thanks, Chicu.<br /><br />nadi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com