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A 200-year-old heritage building in Bengaluru houses museum showcasing India's postal history

Annu Kaushik • January 24, 2023, 20:15:26 IST
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Among the most treasured items at the Sandesh Museum of Communication is a letter written by Subhas Chandra Bose. The place is home to artefacts collected from post offices across India

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A 200-year-old heritage building in Bengaluru houses museum showcasing India's postal history

Bengaluru: A morse transmitter, telegraph, a hand cradle phone and stamps depicting the Indian freedom movement. Objects that may seem like testimonials of a bygone era are in fact the prized possession of this museum in Bengaluru. The aptly named Sandesh Museum of Communication depicts the evolution of postage and communication mediums in India. The museum which was inaugurated in 2019 is housed in a heritage building that was built in 1804. Maintained by the Department of Post, Karnataka Circle, Sandesh hosts artefacts including those from the British era, collected from post offices across India. Among the most treasured items is a letter written by Subhas Chandra Bose. Dated 22 April 1921, then 24-year-old Netaji addressed the letter to the Secretary of State Edwin Montagu, in which he resigned from the Indian Civil Service to join the freedom struggle. [caption id=“attachment_11415011” align=“alignnone” width=“491”]Netaji letter 2 Among the most treasured items is a letter written by Subhas Chandra Bose. Firstpost/Annu Kaushik[/caption] Other letters include those written by the first Indian director of the Post and Telegraph department Gurunath Venkatesh Bewoor and legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. One of the walls displays stamps that were released to mark the 150th anniversary of India Post in 2004. The first stamps that could be used for postage all over India were issued in October 1854. Then there are stamps depicting the luminaries of cinema from Raj Kapoor to NT Rama Rao. Clock that witnessed a tragedy The exhibits also show the perils of postage. A mail bomb detector kept here was used to detect explosive materials being sent via mail. In the room where postman’s uniforms are kept, a stopped watch stands out. The clock which was kept on the first floor of a post office in Losur near Gokak in Karntaka’s Belgavi district stopped ticking at 11:18 pm on 6 August 2019. [caption id=“attachment_11415021” align=“alignnone” width=“640”] The clock seen in the photo stopped ticking at 11:18 pm on 6 August 2019 when floodwaters entered a post office where it was kept in Karnataka’s Losur. Firstpost/Annu Kaushik[/caption] That day floodwaters submerged the first floor of the building which had been evacuated. The clock which stood there is the testimony to the tragedy that claimed several lives. Unsurprisingly, the artefacts have been leaving visitors awestruck. But how they saw the items also depended on their interaction with postage. Surabhi who had come to the museum with her nephews said that she could relate to the exhibits as she has been sending postcards to her dear ones for a long time. “I collect stamps and I could spot some of the stamps I have, at the museum,” she said. But for her nephew Arth, a Class 7 student who posted a letter for the first time on the day he visited the museum, the experience was all-new. Speaking about the post boxes and postman uniforms on display, he said, “what’s best was that my aunt was around when these things were there so she told me about them in detail.” Museum served as jail superintendent’s quarter under the British The history of the structure housing the museum is as interesting as the exhibits kept there. Located right next to the Museum Road Post Office, this building used to be the quarter of the jail superintendent during the British era. It was converted into the Government Museum which was then known as the Mysore Museum in 1865. That’s how the road where it is located came to be known as Museum Road. After the Government Museum was shifted to its current location on Kasturba Road in 1877, the building was turned into a bank before coming under the General Post Office. The Sandesh Museum also called Bangalore Postal Museum is open from 10 am to 4 pm on all days except Sundays. Entry to the museum is free. Read all the Latest News , Trending News ,  Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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