India Post has issued a set of 5 stamps on eminent Hindi,Urdu,Punjabi and Kannad writers on 31st May 2017.Stamps depicts images of Balwant Gargi,K.V.Puttappa,Shrilal Shukla,Bhishm Sahni,krishan Chander. K.V.Puttappa :Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa, popularly known by the nickname Kuvempu or by K. V. Puttappa, was a Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic and thinker. He is widely regarded […]
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India Post has released a set of three stamps on poets and saints of Andhra Pradesh on 26th April 2017. Atukuri Molla (1440–1530) was a Telugu poet who authored the Telugu-language Ramayana . Identified by her caste, she was popularly known as Kummara Molla. Molla claimed Lord Shiva as Guru, and her inspiration is claimed to […]
India Post has issued a set of 10 stamps and one Miniature sheet on Legendary Singers of India .Denomination of each stamp is 5 Rs. Stamps depicts singers 1.Shamshad Begum 2. Geeta Dutt 3. Hemant Kumar 4.Mukesh 5.Kishor Kumar 6. Mohammed Rafi 7.Manna Dey 8. Talat Mahmood 9.Bhupen Hazarika 10. T M Soundararajan.
An interesting circumstance related to the stamp block is that its colour scheme and the circular perforated stamp image in the middle recalls the well-known symbol of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight – the flag with a hole. The stamp image of the block shows one of the heroes – and at the same time a victim – of […]
By Wolfgang Beyer, Vice Chairman of the German Philatelic Collector Group ArGe Zoologie The stamps will be issued on 22nd November 2016 have postage value of 300 won.Stamps depicts a Great tit (Parus major) and a group of Black-faced spoonbills(Platalea minor). It´s the first issue Nature in the DMZ of Korea.
Azerbaijan has issued a beautiful stamp set on 42nd World Chess Olympiad .The “Chess World Cup: Baku-2015” stamp was named the “Most interesting stamp” by Italian journal “L’arte del francobollo”. The price of each stamp of the series is 0.5 manats.
Five distinguished Greek personalities living abroad have been honored with a commemorative series of stamps on 1st september 2016. Costa Gavras:Greek-French director (featured photo) born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia, but lives and works in France creating internationally acclaimed films such as “Z,” “Mad City,” “Betrayed” and many more. He has bought attention to numerous international […]
India Post has released a commemorative postage stamp on noted Gujrati writer Govardhanram Tripathi.Chief Minister of Gujrat Anandi Ben Patel released the stamp on 27th April 2016.Tripathi was born in Nadiad, India on 20 October 1855 on the day of the Dashera festival.In 1875, he completed his BA degree and decided to pursue an LLB […]
Sweden will issue a rainbow colored stamps to celebrate LGBT Pride.Per Ljungberg of PostNord Sweden said:“By issuing a stamp with the Pride Flag, we want to emphasise the equal value of all people and the strength represented by people’s unique qualities and differences. “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the Pride Flag […]
Date of Issue:4 February 2016 Born on March 4, 1916 into an aristocratic Saraswat family and educated in Marathi, Portuguese and English, Vasantrao entered the family business when he was quite young. After his elementary education, he went to the Lyceum where he took his baccalaureate at the age of 18. In 1932, he married […]