Olympic Festival in India

Congratulations !

Indian Wrestler Sushil Kumar gets a Bronze !

Hi Readers ! This is the Olympic time. Everyone seems to be in sporting mood watching Olympics on TV and some lucky ones watching these magnificent games at Beijing.One more bronze medal won by Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar at Beijing.Congratulations! Sushil ! Abhinav Bindra & Sushil Kumar made every Indian proud by their performance. Achievement of Akhil Kumar cannot be overlooked who defeated the World Champion in Boxing though he could not win a medal. But here I am adding colours to your mood by showing some beautiful photographs on the Olympic Festival, organized by our distinguished member Mr.Vijay Seth at New Delhi. A very exclusive cover sent by Mr. Suraj Jaitly from Ludhiana depicting Aldabra Giant Tortoise stamps, the hot favourite of Indian philatelists these days because of its unusual and very exclusive design.In our regular series some se-tenants from the album of Mr. Shrikant Parikh. This is all for today !....Have a Wonderful Time.!

Olympic Festival 2008 in India
Mr. Vijay Seth, Editor Stamps Today has organized an Olympic Festival from the 6th -24th August 2008 in New Delhi. It is in assocation with the embassy of the Poeple's Republic of China in India and Le Meridien Hotel.

Dr Karan Singh & Chinese Ambassador in India

This festival was inaugurated by the the Chinese Ambassador in India and Dr Karan Singh at La Belvedere, Hotel Le Meridien on the 20th Floor, on 6th August . He has also displayed 10 frames of Olympic Stamps, starting from the ancient to the 2008 Olympic Games, 70 photographs on China and lots of artifacts.

Stamps & Artifacts on display

Mr. Vijay Seth addressing

Mr. Seth has been organizing such shows since the 1998 World Cup Football, followed by World Cup Cricket and Olympic Games since then, this is his third display of stamps on the Olympics, the previous being in 2000 & 2004.He has also displayed stamps on Football 1998, 2002 and 2006 and cricket in 1999, 2003 and 2007. He is also celebrating the third anniversary issue of Stamps Today ST-19 and a book "Collection of India Stamps 2007, a 52 page colourful book, it is like an album of 2007, all stamps and M/sheets can be mounted in the book.

The wonders of 8.8.8
8th August 2008 was a memorable day in sports as well as for the philatelists all over the world. As the number 8 is very lucky for the chinese People, the Olympic Games were inaugurated on 8 August at 8hrs 8min 8sec at chinese local time. But for enthusiast philatelists it was a very special date.

I received a Speed Post letter from Mr. Suraj Jaitly, Editor ITS stamp News from Ludhiana with the stamps of Tortoise in a very innovative fashion giving a look of 8.8.8. with a beautiful cancellation of 8 Aug. 2008 on stamps and on the backside with the special date cancellation of Ludhiana Philatelic Bureaue. Thank you so much Mr. Jaitly for the letter and giving these stamps a new and exclusive look. I have published the 'Tortoise in Pyramid" in my last post sent by our distinguished member Mr. Shrikant Parikh. This is another novelty on Tortoise.

From Se-tenant Album of Shrikant Parikh

Theme- Fairs & Festivals

Fairs of India

Date of Issue : 27 February 2007