MYROYALS BLOG: January 2010

Sunday, January 31, 2010

PRİNCESS METTE MARİT

Princess Mette Marit visited Hvalstad school in Asker

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MARY & FREDERİK

30 January:Princess Mary and Prince Frederik visited Call center for help to Africa and Haiti

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Club News

Philatelic Exhibition in Calcutta University

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A Calcutta University Cine Carnival held at Calcutta University 12-15th January 2010 at Ritwik Hall, Hardinge Building.

Organized by Media Studies: Film and Television in association with Cine Central, Calcutta and American Centre.

On 12th there was an interactive session- Topic: The need of Classics: in search of a context, Speaker Prof. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, Jadavpur University.
followed by film show, Zabrieski point ( Michaelangelo Antonioni, italy) and The Journy ( Fernando Solanas, Cuba)

On13th-interactive session- Topic: Reading contemporary cinema: reviewing perspective, followed by film show from Korea and Portugal.

On 14th-interactive session- Topic: Students Film: the birth of a new Avant Garde followed by Students’ film show.

15th interactive session- Topic: Civil Rights Day- Hollywood Cinema as Adaptation- Remarks by Mr. P. Cummins, Director, American Centre
Films shown- Malcom X 9 Spike Lee, USA, Front Page ( Billy Wilders, USA and Grapes of Wrath ( John Ford, USA.

During this period Calcutta University organized a Philatelic Exhibition on Cinema from the collection of Shri Dipok Dey. This is for the first time Calcutta University organized a philatelic exhibition. This mini exhibition has an impact on the academic front. For the future they are planning for a big philatelic exhibition and workshop.

Vande Matram !!

Hi ! I am happy to share this recent replica from Pride of India Collection. This is Vande Matram – our National song. India Post issued a commemorative stamp on 30 December 1976 in honor of this patriotic song. Its gold plated replica is shown here . It is out of 25 best Indian stamps selected for this series. This is all in tonight’s Post….Till Next Post ….Have a Nice Time !

Vande Matram Centenary – Stamp Issue Date – 30 December 1976

For more details log on to http://www.prideofindiacollection.com/

Vande Mataram

Bankin Chandra composed the song Vande Mataram in an inspired moment, Rabindranath sang it by setting a glorious tune to it and it was left to the genius of Shri Aurobindo to interpret the deeper meaning of the song out of which India received the philosophy of new Nationalism. The English translation of Vande Mataram rendered by Shree Aurobindo, is considered as official and best .

Vande Mataram (Sanskrit: Vande Mātaram "I do homage to the mother";is a poem in the 1882 novel by Anandamatha by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay. It is written in a mixture of Bengali and Sanskrit. It is a hymn to the goddess Durga, identified as the national personification of Bengal. It came to be considered the "National Anthem of Bengal", and it played a part in the Indian independence movement, first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress. In 1950, its first two verses were given the official status of "national song" of the Republic of India, distinct from the national anthem of India Jana Gana Mana.

Vande Matram -The National Song of India

Vande maataraM
sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM
SasyashyaamalaaM maataram ||
Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM
pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM
suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM
sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM ||
Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaale
koti koti bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale
abalaa keno maa eto bale
bahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiM
ripudalavaariNiiM maataraM ||
Tumi vidyaa tumi dharma
tumi hR^idi tumi marma
tvaM hi praaNaaH shariire

Baahute tumi maa shakti
hR^idaye tumi maa bhakti
tomaara i pratimaa gaDi
mandire mandire ||

TvaM hi durgaa dashapraharaNadhaariNii
kamalaa kamaladala vihaariNii
vaaNii vidyaadaayinii namaami tvaaM

Namaami kamalaaM amalaaM atulaaM
SujalaaM suphalaaM maataraM ||
ShyaamalaaM saralaaM susmitaaM bhuushhitaaM
DharaNiiM bharaNiiM maataraM |"

English Translation of Vande Matram by Shri Aurbindo

Mother, I bow to thee!
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
bright with orchard gleams,
Cool with thy winds of delight,
Dark fields waving Mother of might,
Mother free.

Glory of moonlight dreams,
Over thy branches and lordly streams,
Clad in thy blossoming trees,
Mother, giver of ease
Laughing low and sweet!
Mother I kiss thy feet,
Speaker sweet and low!
Mother, to thee I bow.

Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands
When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands
And seventy million voices roar
Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?
With many strengths who art mighty and stored,
To thee I call Mother and Lord!
Though who savest, arise and save!
To her I cry who ever her foeman drove
Back from plain and Sea
And shook herself free.

Thou art wisdom, thou art law,
Thou art heart, our soul, our breath
Though art love divine, the awe
In our hearts that conquers death.
Thine the strength that nerves the arm,
Thine the beauty, thine the charm.
Every image made divine
In our temples is but thine.

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,
With her hands that strike and her
swords of sheen,
Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,
And the Muse a hundred-toned,
Pure and perfect without peer,
Mother lend thine ear,
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
Bright with thy orchard gleams,
Dark of hue O candid-fair

In thy soul, with jewelled hair
And thy glorious smile divine,
Loveliest of all earthly lands,
Showering wealth from well-stored hands!
Mother, mother mine!
Mother sweet, I bow to thee,
Mother great and free!

QUEEN RANİA

29 -30 January:Queen Rania attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

photos(daylife:getty images)

Friday, January 29, 2010

Tributes to Mahatma Gandhi

Today is 62nd Death Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Nation Pays homage to Father of the Nation. Here are souvenir replica issued by Gujarat Postal Circle in honour of Mahatma Gandhi which features the Gens of Indian Philately. I am sharing this beautiful replica here. My special thanks to Dr Henmant Kulkrani who has sent me the magnificent stamp (shown above) & FDC issued by UNPA in honour of this great Indian Leader. I express my gratitude to Dr Kulkarni for this special stamp with traffic lights and UNPA enblem on the tab . I also express my thanks to veteran philatelist of our country, Prof Venkatesh Yalvigi of Bangalore for his special philatelic tribute to our Father of Nation ! This post is dedicated to The all great leaders of the world who sacrificed their life for their Nation !!

Gems of Indian Philately

WORLD WORSHIPS MAHATMA

Was there a man in flesh and blood whom many of us Have seen, read and heard, whose image was chosen for stamps, coins & currency Notes of more than hundred countries of the world in our life time?

Yes there was a man! Only one man! ! He was Mohandas Karmachand Gandhi ! Universally known as Mahatma Gandhi. Only Gandhi who lived as a very ordinary man but died as Martyr, who gave the world, the world of sophisticated weapons, the world that vied for each others blood, the world full of hate & selfishness, by the only balm of love and sacrifice, by the only remedy of Satyagraha known as Non Violence and “Non-Cooperation” the ultimate theory of “Do or Die” So that the millions might live and let live.

Mahatma was a messiah of India who walked into huts or palaces to remove the tears and bestow the joys. Such a man - Mahatma, has been honoured all over the world on many commemorative stamps first day covers & special cancellations . More than hundred countries of the world have issued more than 250 stamps in all. Coins and currency notes have been issued mostly in India and very few countries in the world.

2ND OCTOBER 2009, - the 140th Birthday of our Mahatma Gandhiji is declared as “NON VIOLENCE DAY” to be observed every year by the all the Nations of the world. This is the resolution of the World body- to commemorate this the UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION (UNO) has issued a Special Gandhi stamp of $1. & a special cover with 2-10-2009 cancellation this year.. Probably GANDHIJI is the only personality who has this honour bestowed by the world body -UNO ! WHAT AN HONOUR TO “ FATHER OF OUR NATION!”

- PROF. V.S. YALVIGI

MEMBER, KARNATAKA PHILATELIC SOCIETY, & KARNATAKA NUMISMATIC SOCIETY, BANGALORE

A sand sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi

Sand Sculpture event to mark Gandhi’s death anniversary in Porbandar

The Government of Gujarat has organized a grand sand-sculpture event at Porbandar chowpatty on 30th January 2010, death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Orissa based renown sand sculptor artist Manmohan Mahapatra has trained about 70 students in Porbandar who will create various sand sculptures at Porbandar chowpatty on 29th and 30th January. A sand sculpture of Porbandar’s famous Kirti Mandir, birth place of Mahatma Gandhi will also be made.

Mahapatra s would make 40 by 15 ft size grand sand-sculpture, about 70 students trained by him since 6 January this year will create smaller sculptures in about 300 meter area using around five thousand square ft coastal sand.

SİLVİA & CARL GUSTAF

28 January:Queen Silvia and King Carl Gustaf attended a gala in Stockholm

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PRİNCESS MARİE

28 January:Princess Marie attended the UNESCO/L' Oreal Scholarships for Women in Science award at the Royal Danish Academy

PRİNCESS MARY

28 january: Princess Mary attended a children's benefit concert in Copenhagen.

photos(billed bladett dk)

Club News

Date of Issue – 19 December 2009

Hi ! Here is the latest arrival of Miniature sheet and sheetlet of the recent issue, “Preserve The Polar Regions and Glaciers.” These are available only at select Philatelic Bureaus of India. Here is a nice cover issued recently in Agra. The cover was issued by jointly Rotary International and India Post for campaign “ Go Polio Forever”. The cover also features Taj on the emblem of Rotary International. I have a news clipping to share with all of you that appeared in Hindi Daily Amar Ujala on 26th Jan. It is about a Post office in Uttaranchal which functions for 3 months only in a year. It is a tradition from British Period when Britishers opened a temporary Post Office in a Rest House at a place, 22 Kms form Nainital called Dhoopchor where they used to work from 15 April to 30 June. After their return the staff also shifted to a nearby Post office at Mehar Gaon place. This tradition still continues and post office runs here from 15 April to 15 June every year. My sincere thanks to Mr Shrikant Parikh of Ahmedabad & Mr Atul Agarwal of Aligarh for today’s Post. This is all in Today’s Post……Till Next Post……Have a Nice Time !

Preserve the Polar Regions & Glaciers - Sheetlet

End Polio Now ! – 9 January 2010 ( Rotary emblem shows Taj in the centre)

Post Office that opens for 3 months….

Published in Amar Ujala - 26 January 2010

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2010 Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Awards

Smithsonian National Postal Museum Now Soliciting Nominations

The National Postal Museum is currently soliciting nominations for philatelists who will be recognized with the 2010 Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Awards. The award honors Americans and individuals from around the world for outstanding lifetime accomplishments in the field of philately. The achievements can include original research that significantly advances our understanding of philately and postal history; exceptional service to the philatelic community; and the overall promotion of philately for the benefit of current and future collectors. Awards will be presented at the museum in October of 2010.

Nominations can be submitted by any individual or organization. Self-nominations will not be accepted. The nomination must be a stand-alone justification of why the candidate is being proposed and the candidate should not be aware of the nomination. The individual's lifetime philatelic achievements must be delineated in the nomination. The justifications must be between 500 - 1,000 words in length. Nominations must be received by the Nominating Committee by March 1, 2010.

The nomination must be sent in writing to the: Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award Nominating Committee, National Postal Museum, PO Box 37012, MRC-570, Washington, DC 20013-7012.