Date of Issue : 7 September 2011
Porugal Post issued a set of postage stamps and a miniature sheet on 7 September to commemorate World Veterinary Year.The year 2011 has been named the World Veterinary Year in recognition of the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the world’s first veterinary school in Lyon, France, in 1761, shortly followed by the Alfort veterinary school, near Paris, in 1764, both of them at the initiative of French veterinarian Claude Bourgelat.
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Tributes to great singer Jagjit Singh from all music lovers
Last journey of the Ghazal King……
Jagjit Singh’s melodious voice will always be remembered !!!
It is not just his overwhelmingly heart-tugging voice and serene rendition of ghazals that will stay with his admirers. For there are far too many accomplishments that grace the legend of Jagjit Singh.
Like, how he single-handedly revived and popularised Ghazals by garnishing them with Geet, creating the 'non-film music' space in India's pop culture; or how, 24 years ago, he and wife Chitra, were the first recording artists in India to use digital multi-track recording for their album, Beyond Time.His five-decade-long career gave us 80 memorable albums, in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Sindhi and Nepali.
But it is only through the reminiscences of musicians, who worked closely with him from his first studio recording, his first live show, to his very last, that we get a glimpse of a master musician and an incredible human being. Guitarist Clarence Peterson, 74, and percussionist Narayan Sheware, 69, are two such loyalists.
Peterson recounts of a "young, smart and good-looking man" approaching him soon after he had finished a live show in the 60s. "Jagjit came up to me and appreciated my guitar playing. He was young, smart and good-looking but wasn't famous then. 'Let's make some music together', he told me. I agreed."
Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar said, "It is a great loss for the music industry but it is a greater personal loss for me. I knew him well. He worked very hard... sang from the heart."
Her sister Asha Bhonsle said that there will never be a person like him again.
"We will never get a person like him again. He had a soothing voice, and was a very cheerful person," Bhonsle said.
Amitabh Bachchan remembered Singh and his "sonorous silk voice".
Ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas said: "Music was not a profession for him, it was a passion. He took ghazal singing to another level. By nature, he was a fighter. It is a big loss to the music industry."
Glimpses of SIPEX’11
Stamp Exhibition in Jaysinghpur
A Philatelic Exhibition at Jaysingpur Post Office will be held on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Stamp Exhibition in Delhi
Delhi Circle is organizing South Delhi District Level Philatelic Exhibition from Oct 11-12 at WWF Secretariat, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi 03.
1 Special cover will be issued on 11-10-2011 @ the Exhibition on Project Tiger. 2 Cancellations will be provided.
