[Telegram to Mr Minoo Masani]

Summary

This is a short pink-form Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department telegram addressed to Mr M. R. Masani at 148 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay, sent from Madras (AP1098) and bearing a Bombay receiving stamp dated 1.12.75. The single-line message informs Masani that a room has been reserved for him at Hotel Connemara in Madras and asks him to communicate his flight number so that the sender can meet him at Meenambakkam (Madras) airport.

The telegram is signed simply “Srikumar” and carries the routine bureaucratic apparatus of the period: sequence number 1500, a receiving-hall stamp, and the printed Hindi/English footer explaining the header fields. The document is purely logistical — a hospitality note co-ordinating a visit by Masani to Madras — and contains no argumentative or political content.

Key points

• Official Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department telegram form (GIPN 60 P&T Nl. 75), printed in pink.
• Routed from Madras (origin code AP1098) with sequence number 1500 and word-count block 17/148.
• Addressed to “MR M R MASANI 148 MAHATHMA GANDHI ROAD BOMBAY”.
• Message confirms a room has been booked at Hotel Connemara, Madras.
• Requests Masani to inform his flight number so the sender can receive him at Meenambakkam airport.
• Signed “SRIKUMAR” — the host / arranger in Madras.
• Bombay receiving datestamp reads 1.12.75; the file title dates the document 04-12-1975.
• Content is purely logistical (travel and accommodation), with no political or ideological substance.