It is a pleasure to write here that Mr. Pradip Jain and his son Pragya Kothari, both were awarded Vermeil medals for their exhibits in ISRAEL-2008 recently held at Tel Aviv. The name of Mr. Pradeep Jain is a well known name in philately and he has already won a large number of National and International awards . But the effort of Pragya is highly appreciated which made him to achieve this International award at a very young age. He was the youngest participant from India. As it is very difficult for a young philatelist to win a higher award during the transition period when he/she enters the senior class from youth class. Pragya has well presented his both the exhibits. Especially his one frame exhibit 'Man measures his Environment" is to be mentioned here. In this exhibit he presented the abstract topic of Measurement related with Physics in a very interesting way that could be understood by a common man. His comprehensive exhibit through various philatelic items shows his thorough study on the subject and hunt for appropriate philatelic items . He has proved that preparing a good Thematic Exhibit is not an easy task. He has sent scans of all 16 pages of his exhibit. Its a wonderful exhibit prepared by him.I wish I could show here all his pages for you to view but it is not possible.I am giving here some of them. We wish this young achiever a great success in his academic as well as philatelic career. Pragya is a student of 3rd year Economics Honors at Delhi University. 
Pragya writes .......
This one frame collection was started as a result of my interest in the field of Physics especially measurement. I started this collection by the end of year 2003.
The topic man measures his environment was selected after long discussion with my father, who is also my mentor in the field of Philately. What made me stick to this topic was the fact that here I do not include measurement as a whole rather
focus on ways in which human beings try to measure different elements of environment. To contain this topic into a single frame criterion was in fact a real big challenge.
I have written here few days back about cancellations on Sai Baba issue given by same post office. Here is another instance of cancellations in two differernt dates/years sent by our distinguished member Mr. Shrikant Parikh. The dates are quite interesting all 9s and I am so pleased to present it here as it is also my favourite number.
Shrikant Parikh writes from Ahmedabad......
