Stamps on Yoga from China…

 

Indian theme on foreign stamps

The Miniature sheet ( Customized)  features Taj Mahal, Yoga and Shri BKS Iyengar

The Chinese Postal department released eight stamps featuring the Karnataka born and Pune-based, internationally acclaimed Yogacharya BKS Iyengar during the China-India yoga summit held in Guangzhou between June 17 and 19 last year .It is a customized Miniature sheet.

About B.K.S : Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Generally known as B. K. S. Iyengar Born December 14, 1918, in Bellur, Kolar, district, Karnataka, India. He is the founder of Iyengar Yoga; He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 75 years. He has written many books on yoga practice and philosophy, He has also written several definitive yoga texts. Iyengar yoga classes are offered throughout the world,

He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991 and the Padma Bhushann in 2002. In 2004, Iyengar was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.

-Jagannath Mani, Bangalore  email : jagannath_mani7@yahoo.co.in  Blog :  www.olympicgamesphilately.blogspot.com

 

 

Europa 2012  "Visit... "

Here are some recent stamps featuring EUROPA 2012 theme, stamps  issued by Kazakhstan and Lithuania.

Kazakhstan

Date of Issue: 11th April 2012

Lithuania

Date of Issue : 28th April 2012 

View all :  Euroapa stamps

 

Extraordinary stamps of  2011

Here are some more stamps selected in  top ten stamp  list of 2011 released by  stamp News .com

 

Mythical Creatures

 

This Australia Post's stamp issue, released in October 2011, features Mythical Creatures including a fairy, troll, mermaid, griffin, unicorn and a dragon.

Included in this stamp issue is an Australian first, a special effect 3D mini sheet. It comes with viewing glasses and is housed in a special stamp pack complete with a standard mini sheet.

Zodiac issue by Liechtenstein and China

 

Club News

New issue no.57 March 2012 of "ITS Stamp News" has been released . Book your copy and send order immediately, if you are not a subscriber.

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Club News…

Special cover on Taj Mahal

A special Cover on Taj Mahal was issued on 17 February 2012 during Agrapex 2012.

: Ashwani Dubey, Gorakhpur

KOTTAYAM NUPEX 2012

THE KOTTAYAM PHILATELIC & NUMISMATIC SOCIETY WILL BE CONDUCTING AN EXHIBITION FOR STAMPS,COINS & CURRENCIES ON MAY 11,12, & 13, TO COMMEMORATE THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST STAMP EXHIBITION HELD IN TRAVANCORE(KERALA) AT Y.M.C.A. KOTTAYAM (1937).

VENUE:  KPS MENON HALL ( NEAR PUBLIC LIBRARY),SASTRI ROAD,KOTTAYAM,KERALA- 686001 (I K.M FROM RAILWAY STATION).

ONLY 20 STALLS ARE AVAILABLE.

Sales Stall  ... Rs 3500/-

Mobile dealers.... Rs 1300/-

Please book in advance, in order to avoid disappointment.

For more details Contact :

Sunil Joseph (09446124923),

Atish Jain (09447756118).

My recent Covers..

 

 

Very special Card of Republic Day

 

26 .1.12 cancellation from RMS office

 

Ankit Agarwal, Pune

This is a very special card of Republic Day sent by Mr Ankit Agarwal from Pune. The cancellation is of 26 Jan, Republic Day a national holiday in India. On this day all post offices of India Post are closed except  RMS branch of India Post functions. This cancellation is from Railway Mail Service office which functions on all  24 x 7 days. Thanks to Mr Ankit for this nice card with very special cancellation of 26 January 2012.

My stamp : Taj Mahal – Speed Post cover

Shrikant Parikh, Ahmedabad  : http://setenantsofindia.blogspot.in/

World Wetland Day Cancellation

 

Homage to Chauri Chaura Martyrs

Ashwani Dubey, Gorakhpur

New special Cover from Stamp Expo 2012, Patna..

 

 

13 February 2012 : Save Girl – Save Earth

On 13th Feb2012 a special cover on “ Save Girl Save Earth “and a Stamp Booklet on “Save Ganga” was issued during Stamp Expo 2012 Patna.

: :Ashwani Dubey from Patna

 

Club News

 

My Stamp series listed in Michel Catalogue

 MICHEL Catalogue has listed all 29 stamps of MY STAMP series giving specific numbers to each stamp.The rates are in Euro. MICHEL catalogues are issued from Germany.This News is very important for collectors of Indian stamps, as many collectors  are still confused whether to include these stamps in their collection, or not.

:Shrikant Parikh
www.setenantsofindia.blogspot.com 

Stamp Exhibition in Agra

AGRA PEX 2012

THE FIRST AGRA REGIONAL PHILATELIC EXHIBITION

14 districts covered including AGRA ETAH ETAWAH MAINPURI JHANSI AURAIYA FIROZABAD MATHURA BULANDSHAR MAHAMAYANAGAR ETX

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS: MY STAMP AVAILABLE AT ALL THREE DAYS, 100 FRAMES ON DISPLAY , DEALER AND COMMERCIAL BOOTH AVAILABLE

DEALAER BOOTH At Rs. 3000/- for the whole exhibition and early entry will fetch  a discount of Rs.500/-

Three special covers to be realeses

1.  Head Post Office Agra

2. Nagarni Prachari Ceneterary set up by madan mohan malviya

3.  Taj Mahal in embossed form all these covers are limited in numbers.......

For more details please contact Ph 0562-2463886,2463315,2851779

: Atul Agarwal - Aligarh

New Pictorial cancellation from Germany

During the philatelic exhibition  on   August 31,2012,a pictorial postmark featuring the bird EURASIAN CURLEW will be issued . Collectors with interest in this pictorial cancellation may contact  Mr. Wolfgang Beyer E MAIL: Wolfgang.Beyer1@polizei.sachsen.de ,member of staff from the German Collector Group ARGE ZOOLOGIE. Postages rates 0,75 Euro AIRMAIL or  2,80 Euro for AIRMAIL/REGISTERED.

New Stamp from India

 

 

The Trained Nurses Association of India

Date of Issue : 30 September 2011

  : Mansoor Bolar - Mangalore

India Post issued today, a commemorative postage stamp on The Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI) .

Headquarters of The Trained Nurses' Association of India,
New Delhi

TNAI

The Association had its beginning in the Association of Nursing Superintendents which was founded in 1905, at Lucknow. The organisation was composed of nine European Nurses holding administrative posts in hospitals.

Like their counterparts in other countries, this small band of women was imbued with vision and a pioneering spirit. They saw the need to develop Nursing as a profession and also to provide a forum where professional Nurses could meet and plan to achieve these ends.

The Association of Nursing Superintendents, therefore, sought the help and co-operation of Nurses throughout the country. At the Annual Conference held in Bombay in 1908, a decision was taken to establish Trained Nurses Association. The Association was inaugurated in 1909. The two organisations shared the same officers until 1910 when, at the first Trained Nurses Association (TNA) Conference, held at Banaras (UP), the TNA members elected their own officers.

In 1922, the Association of Nursing Superintendents and Trained Nurses Association were amalgamated and called The Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI).

In 1912 the TNAI got affiliated with the International Council of Nurses (ICN). The TNAI along with various responsibilities as a member had participated in the ICN Nursing Abroad Programme since 1950. Under this scheme a number of TNAI members had been placed in institutions abroad to obtain clinical experience on an "earn and learn" basis. In 1974 the TNAI became a member of the Commonwealth Nurses Federation (CNF).

Indian theme on foreign stamps

- Kenneth Sequeira

Guyana Post issued a Miniature sheet during INDIPEX 2011.  featuring Taj Mahal, the  most beautiful monument of India and a world heritage site declared by UNESCO.

 

Taj Mahal – The Pride of India

World Tourism Day

 

Today is World Tourism Day . 27 September is celebrated every year all over the globe as World Tourism Day. This year’s World Tourism Day will be celebrated under the theme of ‘Tourism - Linking Cultures’ set by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The main focus of this year’s theme is to foster awareness among the international community of the value of tourism and its cultural impact and to gain experience in understanding cultural diversity.

Taj Mahal – The Pride of India

World Tourism Day (WTD) 2011 is being held under the theme Tourism – Linking Cultures.

Sri Lanka Post  issues postcards and stamps to celebrate WTD 2011

 

This year’s World Tourism Day will be celebrated under the theme of ‘Tourism – Linking Cultures’ set by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The main focus of this year’s theme is to foster awareness among the international community of the value of tourism and its cultural impact and to gain experience in understanding cultural diversity.

The main function will be held on September 27 with arrangements to release ten new stamps and picture postcards covering this year’s promotional themes of Sri Lanka tourism including Pristine, Heritage, Bliss, Wild, Scenic, Thrills, Festive and Essence and Scenic.

The stamps will bear the value of rupees five (4 stamps) and fifteen (2 stamps). Also four Airmail stamps valuing Rs 30, 35, 40 and 45 will also be released with this.

A Tourism Zone will be declared from Uttarananda Mw to Perahera Mawatha named as ‘Road to Paradise’ where the main activities are scheduled to take place from September 25 to 28.

Two thousand schoolchildren from 110 different schools in the Western province will participate in a competition to draw a 1 km long painting in this area named as ‘Colombo Wall’. The painting will showcase the Colombo city in the future as seen through the eyes of these children.

Indian theme on world stamps…

 

 

Postmark featuring India's Map and National Emblem  and Reunion Island depicting cultural relations with India and Reunion.

Indian theme on foreign stamps…

- Kenneth Sequeira

The cover from Reunion with French Stamp and cacellation from St. Denis

Sint-Denis or unofficially Saint-Denis de la Réunion  is the administrative capital of the French overseas region and department of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. It is located at the island's northernmost point, close to the mouth of the Rivière Saint-Denis.

Saint-Denis is the most populous commune in the French overseas departments. At the 1999 census, there were 158,139 inhabitants in the urban area of Saint-Denis, 131,557 of whom lived in the city of Saint-Denis proper and the remainder in the neighbouring commune of Sainte-Marie.

A French stamp overprinted for use in Reunion

Réunion Island, formerly known as Île Bourbon, is a French island of about 800,000 population located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island. It is an overseas department of France and an integral part of the French Republic.

Reunion Island  is a multicultural society composed of people originally from France, Mozambique, India, China, Madagascar, and the Comores. Islanders use their ethnic origins to define themselves as Cafres (African ancestry) Z'oreilles (born in mainland France), malabars or Tamouls (from Tamil Nadu southern India), Z'arabes (from Gujarat in northern India), Chinois (from China), Malgaches (from Madagascar), Comores (from Comores), Petits blancs (poor rural whites living in the highlands), or Creoles blancs (white landowners). The term Creole today also applies to people with a mixed ethnic background. All the residents of the island are administratively French citizens.

Stamps from Venezuela

This is a wonderful set issued by Venezuela Post in 1997 commemorating 50th anniversary of Independence of India,The set features  Gandhi, Tagore, Sardar Patel, Nehru, Ganga, Ashoka Pillar, Indian Cinema. Traditional Indian Music and latest development in Science and Technology featuring INSAT - IB etc... Another Souvenir sheet  issued for same event depicts Taj Mahal. Perhaps this is one of the best stamps issued to feature Taj Mahal. 

 

 

Taj Mahal

 

: Kenneth Sequeira - Dubai, (UAE)

Nikolai Pirogov - Great Surgeon…

 

 

Recently, The Russian Post has issued a stamp marking 200 years since the birth of Nikolai Pirogov, the eminent figure of the Russian medicine.

Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (25 November 1810 - 5 December 1881) was a prominent Russian scientist and doctor, He is considered to be the founder of field surgery, and was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anesthetic. He was the first surgeon to use anesthesia in a field operation (1847), invented various kinds of surgical operations, and developed his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones. His name is one of the most widely recognized in Russian medical history, and he is considered a Russian national hero.

Our readers share….

INDIPEX 2011 will bring so many philatelic materials . All the 70 countries will provide some land mark to this great event. Till that time we can share the landmarks of older International exhibitions conducted in India.

- Sreejesh Krishnan, Trivandrum

New stamps on Christmas from Germany…

 

Date of Issue – 11 November 2010 

 

Club News

HIMPEX 2010 postponed..

The 1st State level philatelic exhibition HIMPEX – 2010 which was earlier proposed to be held at Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, Shimla from 10 - 12 December 2010 has been postponed. The new dates will be declared later.

 

Taj on French Coin

 

 

The world-renowned Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint) has unveiled a rare work of artistry – a gold coin bearing a Taj Mahal engraving – at their Manhattan showroom. The limited edition gold coin weighs one kilo and is priced at Rs. 65 lakh. Each coin, which is minted in .999 pure gold and measures 37mm in diameter, is the world's first coin to include 68 hand-set Cartier diamonds. Here's a look at the limited edition Taj Mahal coin that was issued on November 17, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

http://www.ndtv.com/album/detail/France+mints+Rs+65+lakh+gold+coin+with+Taj+Mahal-8626?cp

     

10 Euro Taj Silver Coin

FRANCE, 10 Euro 2010, Taj Mahal, silver

Quality : Proof
Value : 10 EURO
Year : 2010

10 Euro 2010 - FRANCE - Taj Mahal, silver

UNESCO

10 Euro - 0,900 silver
Weight: 22,2 g
Diam: 37 mm
Mintage: 10.000 coins