Joy of Christmas !

Hi ! The festive season is going on . Christmas - the festival of joy and happiness continues till New Year. In today's Post the beautiful Christmas cards issued by India Post and one more recent Indian stamp issued on 21 December in the denomination of Rs 5 to commemorate the birth centenary of T V Ramasubbaiyer, the founder of Tamil daily 'Dinamalar' . A beautiful set of two stamps issued by Poland on 27 November to celebrate both Christmas and New year. The dominating element of the graphic design of the stamps and the FDC is the Star of Bethlehem placed on the background of a winter landscape, with snowflakes glimmering in the starry sky. As always these stamps have unique and a special beautiful designs. Hope today's items will add some colours to your enjoyment.This is all for Today!....... Have a Wonderful Festive Time !.....

Christmas cards by India Post

The Star of Bethlehem

Known to everyone, the star which is thought to have guided the three Magi on their way to find the newborn Messiah was not, as artists have for centuries depicted, a flaming comet. Such a spectacular phenomenon would surely be visible to everybody, not just wise men, and a comet sighting was commonly taken as a sign of a coming disaster, rather than glorious news. So what could the Star of Bethlehem have been? Many scientists have long puzzled over this question. Eastern scholars seem to point to astrologers, since it is that region where the knowledge comes from and they were the only ones who knew how to read and decipher the mysterious signs in the sky, but what was the star exactly? Unfortunately, astrology is an obscure art, and it accounts for celestial phenomena in ambiguous ways. Perhaps Kepler was right to claim it was merely a conjunction (close encounter) of Saturn and Jupiter, and maybe it was the ones who think it was Venus, rather than Saturn, that were closer to discovering the truth - who knows? Whatever the case might be, it has for centuries been our unshakable tradition to look for it in the first star that shines after dusk, for it is not the celestial body that is important, but the event it heralds.
Courtesy - Polish Post

Recent Indian Stamp

Date of Issue - 21 December 2008