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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Abdul Latheef Naha

A post office where India’s diversity remained rooted

As the country celebrated the National Postal Day on Monday, the railway town of Shoranur fell back on nostalgic memories of a 75-year-old post office functioning in a shed on a tiny hill at Shoranur.

The Ganeshagiri Post Office functioning on the railway’s land is still in a shed, though the Postal department claims modernity.

Thousands of railway employees who worked in Shoranur in the last seven decades will have lots of memories to share about this post office that had once represented India’s cultural and demographic diversity.

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