New Delhi, May 3 : At 60th National Film Awards ceremony here Friday, President Pranab Mukherjee Friday released postal stamps commemorating 50 iconic film personalities who brought changes in the Indian cinema.Minister of Communication and Information Technology Kapil Sibal said that as the country celebrates the 100 years of Indian cinema, it is vital to […]
Category: History Behind a Stamp
Lithuanian issued two stamps on 26th mAY 2012under The World Heritage Objects series The stamps feature the Curonian Spit.One of the new stamps depicts the dunes of the Curonian Spit, and the second one features an ethnographic fisherman’s homestead in Kopgalys. Each stamp will be issued in the edition of 100 000 copies with the […]
The two words that embody this idea are astounding: Word and Image. For the societies that have inherited age-old Mediterranean cultures, the concept of Sacred Text comprises the actual idea of Religion, Theology and Piety. We talk of ”Religions of the Book” as if the book was the essence of those movements. And, in reality, […]
India Post has today issued a Stamp on S Ramanujan .Ramanujan independently discovered results of Gauss, Kummer and others on hypergeometric series. Ramanujan’s own work on partial sums and products of hypergeometric series have led to major development in the topic. His most famous work was on the number p(n) of partitions of an integer […]
India Post will Issue a commemorative stamp on Kavi Pradeep today.Kavi Pradeep (1915–1998), born Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi, was a renowned poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song,Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo, written as tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country, during the Sino-Indian War . His first recognition came for his patriotic […]
Faroese Post is releasing the second issue of Christmas carols stamps.The motif of the 6.50 stamp is based on the modern Faroese Christmas classic, ”Eg eri so spent til jola” – ”I can’t wait for Christmas to come.” The music was written by Johannus a Rogvu Joensen and lyrics by Ella Smith Clementsen.The song and […]
German Post has issued a stamp commemorating the Biertan Church, one of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.In 1993 the church of Bertan castle has entered in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is still an attraction for tourists from all over the world.Biertan is a rural community in the Transylvanian county of Sibiu. The […]
Produced by the BBC’s Natural History Unit, Frozen Planet is the most ambitious series on the Polar Regions ever undertaken.For four years, camera teams braved temperatures down to -50 degrees C, 200 mile per hour katabatic winds, midnight sun and long dark polar nights to capture the essence of these remote and highly seasonal ends […]
India Post today released a commemorative stamp on Dr Madhav Shrihari Aney.Aney (29 August, 1880- 26 January, 1968)was a politician. He was one of the founder of the Congress Nationalist Party. He was one of the eminent disciples of Lokmanya Tilak. In 1937, he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly. During 1941-1943, he was a member of Governor […]
India Post today released a commemorative stamp on Dr Madhav Shrihari Aney.Aney (29 August, 1880- 26 January, 1968)was a politician. He was one of the founder of the Congress Nationalist Party. He was one of the eminent disciples of Lokmanya Tilak. In 1937, he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly. During 1941-1943, he was a member of Governor […]