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Before emails, PDFs and instant messages, government appointment letters often arrived by telegram. A gentle peep into such a past came through a rare post, laced with nostalgia and pride, by Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IAAS) officer Reema Prakash who celebrated her retirement by sharing the telegram she received on December 30, 1991 in a sweet LinkedIn post.
For bureaucrats growing up in the new milieu, this post surely is a fascinating glimpse as to how far have we travelled over the last three decades, both in substance and style. In a LinkedIn post, Prakash described joining the IAAS as “one of the best things that happened” to her. The service took her across India and the world, with postings in Gwalior, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Addis Ababa, New York and Entebbe, besides giving her opportunities to travel extensively as an auditor.