Category: Gandhi/Nehru/Shastri

Stamps on ” The Samaja” Oriya Newspaper -India 2019.

Stamps on “The Samaja” Oriya Newspaper -India 2019.

“The Samaja” is an Oriya Language newspaper founded in 1919 by a Nationalist and a Freedom Fighter Utkalamani Pandit Gopabandhu Das. It has now a readership of almost 16 Lakhs (1.6 Million) and daily Circulation of 350,000. It is published from eight cities across three states in India (Odisha, Andhra Pradesh & West Bengal).

Some of the prominent personalities who have contributed to its growth and have been associated with it are Lal Bahadur Shastri, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sri Krishna Kant, Balwant Rai Mehta, Purshottam Das Tandon. The “Samaja” is owned and managed by “Servants of People Society” founded by Lala Lajpat Rai.

India Post issued a commemorative stamp of Rs 5 to celebrate Centenary year of  “The Samaja”. The stamp has Braille writing. It was issued on 06 Oct 2019.

INDIA 2019 THE SAMAJA -BRAILLE INSCRIPTION

Miniature Sheet on 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi – India 2019.

Miniature Sheet on 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi – India 2019.

India issued a miniature sheet with six se-tenant stamps of Rs 25 each to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on 02 Oct 2019. The stamps are printed with decorative margins.

Rs 25 – Gandhi as a Child    Rs 25 – Gandhi as a student and attorney

Rs 25 – Gandhi with Wife    Rs 25 – Gandhi with Spinning Wheel   Rs 25 – Gandhi later Years        Rs 25 – The Three monkeys “Speak no evil, See no evil, hear no evil” and Einstein, Mandela.

INDIA MS 2019-GANDHI
INDIA MS 2019-150th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY MAHATMA GANDHI.

Emirates Post issues Miniature Sheet on Gandhi – UAE 2019

Emirates Post issues Miniature Sheet on Gandhi – UAE 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahayan released a Miniature Sheet to mark 150th Birth Anniversary Of Mahatma Gandhi on 24 Aug 2019.

Each stamp is a 3 UAE Dirham denomination and issued in Panes containing two se-tenant pairs. Printed in checkerboard design enabling collectors to have both a vertical and a horizontal Se-tenant pair. Print Quantity 120,000 each stamp.

The stamps feature Gandhi and Anniversary Emblem.

UAE GANDHI
UAE 2019 – 150TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF MAHATMA GANDHI

 

Miniature Sheet on Children’s Day -India -2018

Miniature Sheet on Children’s Day -India -2018

India issued a miniature sheet with two stamps on the theme Children’s Day. It was issued on 14 Nov 2018. The theme for 2018 was “Communal Harmony” to mark Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary.

Stamps Printed -500,000     Miniature Sheets -110,000.  Printed at SPP Hyderabad

INDIA MS 19 CHILDREN'S DAY
INDIA MS 2018- CHILDREN’S DAY-COMMUNAL HARMONY.

Miniature Sheet on Ahimsa Parmo Dharma -India -2019

Miniature Sheet on Ahimsa Parmo Dharma -India -2019

India issued a miniature sheet with two stamps on the theme Ahimsa Parmo Dharma -Non-Violence The Highest Duty. It was issued on 17 Jun 2019.

India celebrates 150th Birth Anniversary of its Father of Nation in  Mahatma Gandhi in 2019. The Philosophy of Ahimsa or NON -Violence was advocated and practised by Gandhiji during the freedom struggle. The stamps were issued on 17 Jun 2019 to coincide with the establishment of Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat on 17 Jun 1917 and Gandhiji’s Birth Anniversary.

INDIA MS 19 AHIMSA
INDIA MS 2019- AHIMSA PARMO DHARMA-GANDHI BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
INDIA AHIMSA BROCHURE
INDIA 2019- AHIMSA PARMO DHARMA BROCHURE

 

Journey through 20th Century – Souvenir Sheet Belgium 1999.

Journey through 20th Century – Souvenir Sheet Belgium 1999.

Belgium issued a souvenir sheet containing 20 stamps of 17 Fr or 0.42 euro each on important people and events in the journey through 20th Century. The sheet was issued on 04 Dec 1999. The stamps feature

Pope John XXIII            King Baudouin     Willy Brandt         John F Kennedy

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)                    Martin Luther King (1929-1968)                                Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)      Che Guevara       Golda Meir       Nelson Mandela

Olympics          Football                  Eddy Merckx        Chanson

Beatles     Charlie Chaplin      Tourism -Beaches    Musical Instruments, Music, Scouting

Herge, Cartoons    Philately

BELGIUM MS MILLENIUM
BELGIUM SOUVENIR SHEET 1999- THROUGH 20TH CENTURY

Stamps on Mahatma Gandhi -Kazakhstan 1995.

Stamps on Mahatma Gandhi -Kazakhstan 1995.

Kazakhstan issued a set of two stamps on Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) on 02 Oct 1995 to commemorate his 125th Birth Anniversary. A sheet containing 10 stamps of 9 Tenge each is listed. It shows Gandhi.

KAZAKHSTAN MS GANDHI 125 BA
KAZAKHSTAN MS 1995- 125 BA MAHATMA GANDHI.