Philatelic Tributes to Lal Bahadur Shastri

 

Tribute to Lal Bahadur Shastri by Hungary Post in 1966.

Indian theme on foreign stamps

- Kenneth Sequeira

Shastriji’s   birth  year 1904 -  and place  Mughal Sarai & death  year 1966 and place – Tashkent is mentioned on the stamp .

Shastri related Post  : http://rainbowstampclub.blogspot.com/2011/01/tributes-to-lal-bahadur-shastri.html

Club News

Bird Postmark from Germany

On September 22.10.2011  a new pictorial postmark featuring  the bird RED START will be provided  in Neubrandenburg, GERMANY

The postmark  is available  from  Wolfgang Beyer ,  email:  Wolfgang.Beyer1@polizei.sachsen.de  , member of Staff from the topical collector group ARGE ZOOLOGIE . A stationery  of private order is available too.

MAHAPEX 2012

Pune will host the four-day 11th state-level philatelic exhibition, Mahapex 2012, at Ganesh Kala Krida Rangmanch from January 13 next year.

After 25 years, Pune will be hosting such an exhibition for Maharashtra and Goa. The Prospectus of 'Mahapex 2012' was unveiled by Chief Postmaster General, Maharashtra circle, Faiz-Ur-Rehman, on Friday at Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management.

Mr Rehman said that it would be a big-budget event, where renowned Indian philatelists would be participating. The show will host 400 exhibition frames exhibited by over 300 philatelists from the two states.

Suratpex 2011 ( District Level )  Philatelic Exhibition

Date : 14 & 15 th October 2011 ( Friday & Saturday )
Venue : jeevan Bharati School, Nanpura, Surat
Time : 11.00 to 06.00

News Clippings

An  article on collection  of  Mr Prem Pues Kumar a  philatelist from Jamshedpur   was published on 15th Aug 2011 in I - Next Dainik Jagaran , Jamshedpur edition. Read  Article

  Timir Rajnikant Shah – Vadodara, Deepak Modi – Jalna Maharashtra; Wolgang Beyer - Germany