New Special Cancellation : AXIOM 4

 

AXIOM Mission 4 : Sucessful Return : 15 July 2025 : Raipur (C.G.)

On successful return of Group Capt. Shubhanshu Shukla from ISS, a special cancellation and one Picture Postcard  was released yesterday 15 July 205  by Chhattisgarh Postal  Circle, Raipur.

'Earth welcomes its explorers AXIOM 4 returns with Pride'

-Capt. Vijay Wadhwa - Raipur (C.G.)

My recent cover

Special Cancellation : 21 June :World Music Day : Trivandrum

Thanks to Mr P. Mohanachandran Nair-Trivandrum

New stamps from India

 

125 Years of Kdaikanal Solar Observatory

Date of Issue: 16 May 2025

Date of Issue: 1 May 2025

Postage stamp on100th Birth anniversary of legendary Singer Mukesh

 

100th Birth Anniversary of Mukesh

Date of Issue : 24 July 2024 

The Ministry of Culture released a commemorative stamp in honour of the legendary singer Mukesh, marking his 100th birth anniversary. Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat was the Chief Guest at the event, held on Wednesday as a heartfelt tribute to the legendary singer’s monumental contributions to Indian music and his enduring global legacy, at Akashwani Rang Bhawan, All India Radio, New Delhi.

Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat stated that the unveiling ceremony of the commemorative stamp symbolizes our deep respect and admiration for Mukesh’s remarkable career and unforgettable voice. It is a momentous occasion, celebrating not just his centenary but also immortalizing his profound impact on the music industry, he added.The evening continued with a mesmerizing musical tribute featuring a performance by Mukesh’s son, Nitin Mukesh.

International Women's Day

 

International Women's Day 2022

Date of Issue : 28 February 2022

Here is a beautiful se-tenant pair of stamps issued by Serbia Post to commemorate  International Women's Day 2022.The theme of 2022 International Women’s Day is “gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”.

International Women’s Day is an international day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women. It was first celebrated in the United States on 28 February 1909, but the following year, at the first International Conference of Women in Copenhagen, at the initiative of Clara Zetkin, it was decided to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, in memory of the protests of female workers in the textile industry held in New York in 1857.

As International Women’s Day, 8 March was first officially celebrated in 1911 by more than a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. The first celebration of Women’s Day in Serbia was organised in Belgrade in 1914.

In the early 1970s, the United Nations officially declared 8 March International Women’s Day, and today it is celebrated around the world, and in more than 55 countries it is an official national holiday.

New special Cover released today

Bharat Ratna : Lata Mangeshkar : 8 March 2022 : Bangalore

New stamps from Austria

 

250th Birth Anniversary of Beethoven

Date of Issue : 30 September 2020

Austria is famous for its beautiful architecture but music and wine from Austria are also very popular around the world. Two beautiful stamps from Austria featuring great German Composer, Beethoven who later moved to Vienna and famous wine-producing region of Austria, Burgenland.

The musical genius

Austrian Post is celebrating the 250'h anniversary of the birth of the great composer by issuing a commemorative stamp, embellished with foil embossing, which shows the famous portrait by Joseph Carl Stieler.

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn. His musical talents were encouraged from an early age, and even as a child he was already giving piano recitals. In 1792 he moved to Vienna, where he found support among the nobility. Among other things, he took lessons in composition from Joseph Haydn and quickly distinguished himself as a successful composer. However, his health soon began to deteriorate and a serious hearing impairment ultimately resulted in almost complete deafness. Despite this tragedy he continued to work tirelessly and with a high level of perfectionism on his compositions until shortly before his demise on 26th March 1827. With many of the public turning out to mourn him, Beethoven was initially buried in Wahring cemetery, but was subsequently laid to rest in a grave of honour in Vienna’s Central Cemetery in 1888.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a key proponent of Viennese Classicism and a forerunner of the Romantic era. He left behind an exceptionally comprehensive oeuvre that includes not only his nine famous symphonies but also numerous piano concertos and sonatas, string quartets, songs, the opera Fidelio and his Lissa solemnis. One of his most famous works is undoubtedly his ninth symphony, in the last movement of which a choir sings Friedrich Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy”. An instrumental version of this is today used as the official European anthem.

“Austrian wine regions”

 

Date of Issue : 19 September 2020

South Burgenland – Uhudler

From a tradition to a cult drink

A particular speciality from the South Burgenland region is the incomparable Uhudler, which is the subject of this year’s special stamp from the “Austrian wine regions”series.

Uhudler has the phylloxa aphid to thank for its existence after the latter almost wiped out European grapevines at the end of the 1 t h century. As a result, robust, phylloxa-resistant

varieties from America were imported to replace them, eventually being hybridised during the 20th century through grafting with indigenous varieties. The unmodified varieties are known as direct producers, and it is from these that Uhudler is made.

A fruity wine, Uhudler impresses with its unmistakable aroma of wild strawberries and raspberries. Depending upon the variety and region, its colour ranges from pale yellow through delicate pink to brick red; the flavour is dry with a pronounced acidity, and is described as “foxy”. Legend has it that the wine got its name from the wives of the vintners, whose husbands, after having partaken copiously of the wine, allegedly looked like eagle owls (German: Uhu). Uhudler was banned for a time as it was falsely claimed that it was injurious to the health. In 1992 it was finally incorporated into the Austrian Wine Law. Only certain direct producer varieties are authorised for making Uhudler, and only certified wines from particular municipalities in South Burgenland are allowed to bear the protected name. The special stamp shows the historic castle in Güssing, one of the municipalities  which produces the wine.

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New special Cover from Dehradun

Mahatma Khushi Ram Public Library, Dehradun : 5 October 2020

Image Credit : Sreejesh Krishnan, Dehradun  (Philately Promoters Whatsapp Gp)

Philatelic Exhibition at Indore

On 2nd October a 12 frame philatelic exhibition was inaugurated at GPO Indore. It was organized by Malwa Philatelic society and displayed exhibits of Sri O.P.Kedia, Sri Arun Bindal, and Sri Rishiraj Upadhaya. A special cover was also released on that day. The exhibition will continue for seven days .

-O.P.Kedia-Secretary Malwa Philatelic Society

PHILAMUSICA 2019, Luxembourg

PHILAMUSICA 2019

A special  philatelic exhibition on Music theme  will be held from June 8th to June 10th 2019 in Mondorf-les-Baines (Luxembourg).Indian Philatelists and philatelists from other countries will be participating  in this exhibition. A special pictorial postmark for the Exhibition PHILAMUSICA will be provided during exhibition in Luxembourg.

Website :  www.philcolux.lu

- Wolfgang Beyer, Germany

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Stamp exhibition at LBS Academy Mussoorie

The LBS National Academy of Administration, India's apex training institution for conducting Foundation Course for All India and Central Services and Professional Course for the IAS, besides other programs on governance and development interventions is organizing a Literature & Arts Festival for 182 officers of the IAS Professional Course Phase-I (2018 batch ) on the 12-13 April(Friday-Saturday) at its picturesque campus in Mussoorie. On the occasion of 150th Anniversary year of Father of Nation 'Mahatma Gandhi', a Festival of Literature & Art is being organized in which Governance, Fiction & Contemporary Issues and Writings in Hindi & Indian Language will be carried out along with organizing of painting exhibition, Philately exhibition and photograph exhibition. to commemorate the festival a special cover was also issued by Uttarakhand Circle of India Post.

- Vinay Gupta, Dehradun

New Stamps from India

Raj Kumar Shukla

Date of Issue : 18 December 2018

Manoj Sinha, Minister of State for Communications (I/C) and Railways, released the Commemorative Postage Stamp on Rajkumar Shukla, in New Delhi on December 18, 2018


Ustad Sabri Khan

Date of Issue : 13 December 2018

PHILAMUSICA 2019, Luxembourg - Thematic Philatelic Exhibition on Music

PHILAMUSICA 2019, Luxembourg

( 8 -10 June 2019 )

This philatelic exhibition will be held from June 8th to June 10th 2019 in Mondorf-les-Baines (Luxembourg).

Indian Philatelists and from other countries are  invited for participation in this important philatelic exhibition.

For more details visit :  www.philcolux.lu

Courtesy: Mr .Roger Thill, Philcolux and Mr. Wolfgang Beyer, German Philatelic Federation

World Music Day

21 June  - World Music Day 

 World Music Day is an annual music celebration that takes place on 21 June. On Music Day the citizens of a city or country are allowed and urged to play music outside in their neighborhoods or in public spaces and parks. Free concerts are also organized, where musicians play for fun and not for payment.

The first all-day musical celebration on the day of the solstice was originated by the French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, and by Maurice Fleuret, and was first celebrated in Paris in 1982. Music Day later became celebrated in 120 countries around the world.

Audio Visual Postcard

AUDIO VISUAL POSTCARD

Post card was first introduced by Austria in 1869 and since then millions of Post Cards had been issued by many countries both officially or privately.

Dipok Dey

On 15th April 2018 & Noted philatelist and artist Shri Dipok Dey from Kolkata  released a NEW KIND of Post Card-AUDIO VISUAL POSTCARD under Immortal Song Series on behalf of Bharatiya Daktikit Sangstha. One can enjoy the moving pictures of Heroes and Heroines, dancing and singing the song in a film.

HOW to SEE it?

In your smart phone download QR scanner, then scan the QR code printed on the Post Card- open browser- open with YOU TUBE and enjoy the song. His son Kaushik Dey developed the code and helped to incorporate it in the main design.

He has  selected 20 songs from - 1949 to 1965 from the movies he he had  seen in his childhood to college days with his friends.

Even when you are in facebook with your Computer, you can enjoy it. Just focus on the QR code on the computer screen and you can enjoy it.

In every smart phone there is QR scanner only you will have to download it.

Spanish Cinema - Malaga Film Festival

Date of Issue : 16 April 2017

The Malaga Film Festival has been awarding and upholding Spanish cinema since 1998.Little by little, it has become a benchmark in film festivals around the world, bringing together every year actors from the field of interpretation and other professionals of the sector.

The award-winning categories receive as a prize a reproduction of a typical Malaga flower symbol of the city, the biznaga, a bouquet of jasmines in the form of a ball, elaborated in a meticulous way, that is usually sold through the streets of Malaga, especially in the months of Summer, leaving behind an unmistakable and unforgettable smell.

One more year, within the Spanish Cinema series, Correos issues a new issue, on this occasion, dedicated to the festival.This issue presents the peculiarity of being printed for the first time in transparent acetate simulating a frame.

The design of the stamp shows a anchovy, a fish closely linked to the city of Malaga, emerging from a can containing a film, on a few strokes in blue tones that simulate the sea.

The issue also presents an illustration of a film camera that projects a beam of light represented by the famous "Farola" of Malaga, the lighthouse that guides the ships that arrive to its bay.

Also, the design includes a brief history of the Festival, which highlights above all how the Festival influences in a very positive way in the cultural development of a city that in recent years has become a reference point in this regard.Important museums, its recent urban and aesthetic development, bars, restaurants and events make Malaga a very attractive city with a large number of visitors every year.

New stamp on Music Theme

Date of Issue : 5 May 2017

Ukraine Post issued a stamp on 5th May 2017 on famous  singer Jamala. The stamp also shows her autograph. Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova, better known by her stage name Jamala, is a Ukrainian singer, actress and songwriter. She represented Ukraine and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with her song "1944".