OLD ORDER CHANGES !
Two separate media (Electronic and Print)...two different news ("Telegrams will no longer exist." and "Musicworld, Kolkata downs its shutters for good.")... and the heart gets heavy ! Both were making huge losses and thus the decisions. But, what's so special about it? Both of us - the old brigade and the Generation X do not book or send telegrams and CDs & DVDs are not selling enough nowadays (courtesy : download from the internet). So, it's no use crying over spilt milk !
But did we ever think that the newer technologies would displace Gramophones, Radios, Tape Recorders, Analogue Clocks & Watches, Pagers & Dialing Land-line Telephones, Film Cameras & Slide Projectors or even Postcards, Inland Letters, Postal Envelopes, Stamps and Telegrams so fast? But, let's frankly admit that these are facts and not fictions !
We know, the Museums will always be there to take care of history and we have to accept this basic fact that nothing 'material' can claim its place in 'posterity' . Old order will always continue to change giving way to the new ones! And whether we like them or not, we'll have to accept them -gladly or in a reluctant way. It's no use crying over spilt milk.
(Photographs used here have been taken from Internet sources for record and reference purpose and not for commercial use).
Happy viewing.
Robin Banerjee.
Two separate media (Electronic and Print)...two different news ("Telegrams will no longer exist." and "Musicworld, Kolkata downs its shutters for good.")... and the heart gets heavy ! Both were making huge losses and thus the decisions. But, what's so special about it? Both of us - the old brigade and the Generation X do not book or send telegrams and CDs & DVDs are not selling enough nowadays (courtesy : download from the internet). So, it's no use crying over spilt milk !
But did we ever think that the newer technologies would displace Gramophones, Radios, Tape Recorders, Analogue Clocks & Watches, Pagers & Dialing Land-line Telephones, Film Cameras & Slide Projectors or even Postcards, Inland Letters, Postal Envelopes, Stamps and Telegrams so fast? But, let's frankly admit that these are facts and not fictions !
We know, the Museums will always be there to take care of history and we have to accept this basic fact that nothing 'material' can claim its place in 'posterity' . Old order will always continue to change giving way to the new ones! And whether we like them or not, we'll have to accept them -gladly or in a reluctant way. It's no use crying over spilt milk.
(Photographs used here have been taken from Internet sources for record and reference purpose and not for commercial use).
Happy viewing.
Robin Banerjee.
In a economically and culturally heterogeneous country there would always be people 20 years behind the people who are in the front line of evolution. ...
ReplyDeleteThus the Mercedes generation and the Bullock Cart generation. The advanced Internet users and the total illiterstrs....
For us it would be a matter of nostslgia perhaps. but for those living in the deep interiors of Jharkhand those who never even saw a postcard or a CD in their lives....What's the difference ?
While appreciating your views and admitting that illiteracy is a harsh reality, what I can say on the basis of my extensive & frequent tours into the micro interiors of Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal (mainly South) and my interactions with the rural people in those places that they not only use dish TV-DTH (not cable TV always) and watch video from DVDs/CDs, many of them use mobile phones, iPods or even computers (though in less frequency)in their daily lives. Motor cycles have replaced bicycles and jeans-T shirts have replaced dhoti-photua. But like most of us, they do not go to the post offices or telegraph booths or avail their services. I always welcome and appreciate changes, but nostalgia engulfs me often though I know, it's not possible to walk backwards... Many thanks for your wonderful comments. Keep watching....
ReplyDeletememories!! may be one day the mobiles will go to the museum, :)
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