New stamp from India..

 

 

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari released a commemorative postage stamp in honour of Maulana Hasrat Mohani, a freedom fighter, at a function held at Vice President House, New Delhi on 25th February 2014.

Maulana Hasrat Mohani (b. 1875 Unnao, d. May 13, 1951 Lucknow) was a Romantic Poet of Urdu language who also penned the very popular ghazal Chupke Chupke Raat Din sung by Ghulam Ali. He was also a journalist, politician, parliamentarian of British India, besides a being a part of the Indian Independence Movement. The real name of Maulana was Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan. Hasrat was his pen name which he used in the Urdu poetry and the word Mohani refers to the native place of Mohan where he was born.

Pakistan Post had also issued stamp in denomination of Rs. 3 to commemorate the Pioneers of Freedom on Maulana Hasrat Mohani on 23rd January, 1989.

Courtesy : Indian Philately Digest

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Tributes to Subhash Chandra Bose

 

Today is Birth anniversary of great Indian freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose. He gave the fmous slogan ‘ Jai Hind ’. This  post is a philatelic Tribute to the great leader and freedom fighter.

Subhash Chandra Bose was one of India's greatest freedom fighter. He was the founder of the Indian National Army, popularly known as 'Azad Hind Fauj'. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had visited London during pre-independence period to discuss the future of India, with the members of the Labor party. His sudden disappearance from Taiwan, led to surfacing of various theories, concerning the possibilities of his survival.

  

Subhash Chandra Bose was born on 23 January, 1897 in Cuttack (Orissa) to Janakinath Bose and Prabhavati Devi. Janakinath Bose was one of the successful lawyer in Cuttack and received the title of "Rai Bahadur". He, later became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council.      He passed his B.A. in Philosophy from the Presidency College in Calcutta. He was strongly influenced by Swami Vivekananda's teachings and was known for his patriotic zeal as a student. He also adored Vivekananda as his spiritual Guru.

 

Indian theme on foreign stamps

Ramayan story on stamps

on 14th June 2013, a stamp of 100Th Years of Indonesia Archaeological Institute shows Ramayana story (cerita ramayana) as carved on the inner walls of the Prambanan Temple(largest Hindu temple of Indonesia). Ramayana ballet is regularly performed in the open theatre of this temple.

 

The above stamp issued by Yemen, depicts Rama and Lakshman and god Shiva. It was issued as part of the set “Asian Paintings”.

Courtesy : Leeza Padhi – Cuttack and Eli Moallem - Israel

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New Special cover from Gujarat…

Special Cover on Freedom Fighters and Reformers of India - 30th August 2013

On 30th August a special cover was released on freedom Fighters of India at, Vallabh Vidyasagar, Gujarat.

: Timir R. Shah – Vadodara
email : trs_shah@rediffmail.com

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50th Anniversary of the Woman’s First Flight to Space

 

 

Date of Issue : 16 June 2013

Azermarka paid tribute to cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova by issuing this souvenir sheet .   50 years ago, she became the first woman to go into orbit on board the Vostok 6 spacecraft.

“Hey, heavens, take off your hat!” Tereshkova said before taking off, as if she were asking the universe to pay respects to the first woman to dare to challenge it.

On June 16 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space .

Tereshkova’s space journey lasted almost three days during which her spacecraft circled the Earth 49 times.

The flight, however, was not an easy one right from the start, with Tereshkova beginning to feel sick due to accumulated fatigue and being unable to orient the space capsule along its transverse axis, Nickolai Kamanin, one of the organizers of the flight, recalled in his diary.

The stamp features a portrait of Valentina Tereshkova having the Earth on her background. The sheet features launching of Vostok 6 spacecraft.

Azermarka is the Azerbaijani state company responsible for the production and sale of Azerbaijani postage stamps

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New special Cover from Uttarakhand…

Governor of Uttarakhand H.E. Aziz Qureshi released special cover on Abbas Tayyabji on 8-6-13 at Raj Bhawan, Dehradun on his 77th Death Anniversary . Abbas Tayyabji was second in command during the famous Dandi March and is also popularly known as "Chhota Gandhi". The cover was designed by Abhai Mishra while the cancellation was designed by Rajesh Varma.

: Abhai Mishra – Dehradun - email : abhai_mishra@rediffmail.com

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