Talking across distances

In your book, Our Wondrous World (Chapter 2), Navya asks Dada ji, 'Did you not have mobile phones?' Dada ji laughs. When he was young, people wrote letters, and sometimes it took weeks to get a reply!

The ways people talk across distances have changed a lot. Long ago, people sent messages with drumbeats and with carvings on rocks. Later, letters were carried by messengers and by pigeons. Much later, the postal service began, for sending letters, parcels and important documents.

With time came new inventions: the telephone, the radio and the television. Today we have mobile phones and computers that use the internet, which connects us with anyone, anywhere, in seconds.

So a letter was slow, but messages, emails and video calls are much faster. Dada ji says he still misses the joy of a handwritten letter!