New Special Cancellations

Congrats to the 1st Indian to win the FIDE Women's World Cup 2025 : 29 July 2025: Raipur

  

The Women's Chess World Cup 2025 was a 107-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Batumi, Georgia from 5 July to 29 July 2025. It was the third edition of the Women's Chess World Cup. The winner IM Divya Deshmukh, runner-up Koneru Humpy, and third-place finisher Tan Zhongyi qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026.

Divya Deshmukh, the winner of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup

International Tiger Day : 29 July 2025 : Raipur

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

Painting and Poetry on New Chinese stamps…

 

 

China Post issued a set of four special stamps “Poetry and Painting” featuring: Mountain and Flowing Water, Yi Qiu lesson believers, Huai pond, Michiko painted wall.

Piano, chess, calligraphy, painting stamps refer to four kinds of the ancient art of self-cultivation, also known as Masato. “Piano”, multi-fingered guqin, also known as “lyre”, is China’s oldest stringed instrument, subtle, deep, representing ancient Chinese musical culture. The “piano” stamp indicates the high status of a piano in the eyes of the ancients. The “chess” stamp, mainly referring to chess, contains the wisdom of traditional Chinese culture and spirituality. The “book”, referring to calligraphy is China’s unique heritage of civilization carrier. The “painting”, referring to the art to depict landscapes, objects, flowers, birds, characters, pure and bright colors, abstract impressionistic style, represents independent aesthetic system and distinctive national style.

Poetry and painting, profound, elegant style, carried from generation to generation, with distinct Chinese characteristics and profound cultural connotation, is a treasure of Chinese nation’s outstanding cultural heritage.

 

Special Cover from Kashmir   Sp covers  0n  World  Wetland Day  and Destination of Water Sports were  released by Chief Postmaster General, Jammu & Kashmir Circle in February and April 2013.

World Wetland Day – 2 February 2013 : Srinagar

Destination of Winter Sports : 20 April 2013 : Gulmarg

: Raj Kumar Chaudhary – Jamshedpur  email : coinrajkumar@gmail.com

 

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Saudi 2013

29th Asian International Stamp Exhibition (Saudi 2013)

The Saudi Arabia Philatelic Society is going to organize Saudi 2013 - 29th FIAP Asian International Stamp Exhibition. The Exhibition will be held at Kingdom Shopping Mall, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 11 - 16 December 2013. It will be a 6-day General Asian International Stamp exhibition and will includes Traditional, Postal History, Youth, Literature and Modern Philately classes.

Website : http://www.saudi2013.com/ 

The last date for sending entry forms of Saudi 2013 is 25th July. Interested philatelists may send their entry forms to :

Umesh Kakkeri

G-6, Prathamesh co-op Hsg. Society,

off V.S.Marg, Prabhadevi

Mumbai 400025, (Maharastra

Vishwanthan Anand – The Pride of India…

 

 

World chess champion Vishwanathan Anand receives honour from the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov during an award ceremony at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Vishwanathan  Anand becomes World Chess Champion for 5th time

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Its a great honor to write this Post about Vishwanathan Anand who becomes World Chess Champion 5th time !! We  are proud of him . Many Many Congratulations on his recent Victory !! This Post is dedicated to the great Chess Player !! He is the Pride of India !!

Kennath Sequeira from Dubai shares here a nice souvenir sheet issued on a Match between Anand and Tapalov at FIDE World Chess Championship held in 2010 in Sofia, Bulagaria. The souvenir sheet also bears the name of   Vishwanathan Anand, the greatest Indian Chess player .

Stamp dedicated to FIDE World Chess Championship – Anand - Topalov 2010 Match

The postal articles (an envelope and а postage stamp) devoted to the match for the World Chess Championship "Anand-Topalov”

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Anand defeated Boris Gelfand to win the Championship..

When Vishwanathan Anand made his meteoric rise in chess world in the 1980s, he was nicknamed The Lightening Kid for the speed with which he calculated complex chess moves and executed them. He used to complete in just about an hour, classical games in which players could use up to three and half hours of time.

Though over the years he has slowed down a bit and nowadays plays at a more sedate pace, Anand is still one of the best players in the world when it comes to the shorter version of chess, in which players get about 30 minutes each to complete the game.

A private cover

Anand’s proficiency in speed chess paid rich dividend on Wednesday as he defeated his challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in a four-game rapid chess tiebreaker to win his fifth World Championship title and to remain the undisputed king of the chess world.

Newly-crowned world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand received a gold medal, prize money of $1.4 million (around Rs. 7.9 crores), a memento and a piece of contemporary art displaying him and challenger Boris Gelfand, for his achievement at a ceremony on Thursday.

New Stamps from Jersey…

 

 

Date of Issue : 3 August 2011

This issues celebrates 75 years of the National Trust for Jersey and depicts various animals, birds and locations important to the organization.

 

Conservation- 75th anniversary - National Trust for Jersey

 

 

From our Readers….

FIDE World Championship 2010 Sofia, Bulgaria

In  response to my last post on FIDE World Championship. Mr Moloy Sarkar from Kolkata shares here a nice Maxim card  with autograph of Vishwanathan Anand of the same issue. That’s really nice !  Just wonderful !!

 

Stamps from other countries related with India

Mr Kenneth Sequeira from Dubai, U A E shares hera a Souvenir sheet issued by South Africa Post  in 2003 on 10 years of Diplomatic Relations with India.

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Philatelic Workshop and exhibition by Rajkot Philatelic Society

A WORKSHOP cum PHELATELIC EXHIBITION was organized by Philatelic Society of Rajkot under the auspices of INDIA POST.

A Workshop on Philately  was inaugurated by principal Smt. Sonal Shah,  on 12^th Aug.2011 at Kadavibai  Virani  High School, Rajkot, Gujarat. It was followed by digital presentation, given by  Shri. N D Prajapati  –SSP Rajkot division;   one day philatelic workshop was demonstrate by  renowned philateliest  Shri H C Mehta and   a keynote was   lecture delivered by Shri. T R Naliapara  on  Recent trends  in philately.

On 15^th Aug.2011 a philatelic exhibition – STAMPE2011 was organized. More than 100 frames of thematic collection were displayed. The collection on Wildlife of Ms Paritri was also displayed.exhibition was  inaugurated by Mrs.  Anjali Anand , Post Master General, Rajkot Region. More than 2000 school children  visited the exhibition along with print & electronic media.

- Dr. Paresh Upadhyay

Convener  of Rajkot Philatelic Society, Gujarat

New Stamp from India

 

 

Date of Issue : 29 August 2011

Image : Mansoor Bolar , Mangalore

India Post issued a commemorative  stamp today on Dr Madhav Shrihari Aney .Dr  Aney (29 August, 1880 - 26 January, 1968) was an Indian politician. He was one of the founder of the Congress Nationalist Party. He was one of the eminent disciples of Lokmanya Tilak apart from N C Kelkar, Kakasaheb Khadilkar and Gangadhar Deshpande.

In 1937, he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly. During 1941-1943, he was a member of Governor General's Executive Council. He resigned in 1943, when the British Indian government refused to release Mahatma Gandhi, while he was on fast. He was the High Commissioner to Ceylon from 1943 to July, 1947. He joined the Constituent Assembly in 1947.

After Indian independence, Dr M S Aney was Governor of Bihar from 12 January 1948 to 14 June 1952 He was also a member of the 3rd Lok Sabha from 1962 to 1967, representing Nagpur constituency. He died on 26 January, 1968 evening, the very day he was honored with Padma Vibhushan. In 1973, he was posthumously honored with the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for his Shritilakayashornava (1971), a Sanskrit biography of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

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New Blog on Permanent stamp cancellations of India

A new blog created by Nagendra Amunje features Permanent postmarks of India. It can be viewed at http://www.indianpostmarks.blogspot.com/  It is a very good reference blog for all philatelists.

From our Readers…

Mr Kennath Sequeira from Dubai shares here a nice souvenir sheet issued on a Match between Anand and Tapalov at FIDE World Chess Championship held last year in Sofia, Bulagaria. The souvenir sheet also bears the name of   Vishwanathan Anand, the greatest Indian Chess player .

Stamp dedicated to FIDE World Chess Championship – Anand - Topalov 2010 Match

                                                                                 - Kenneth Sequeira, Dubai, UAE

The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess Champion. The match took place in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 24 to May 13, 2010. In a dramatic finish, Anand won the match 6½–5½ to retain the title.

Official  FDC

Private FDC

Vishwanathan Anand Chess Champion private Max-Card

The start of the match was delayed one day due to air travel disruptions caused by the volcanic ash emissions from Eyjafjallajökull. Anand was to fly from Frankfurt to Sofia on April 16 and was stranded because of the eruption. He asked for a three day postponement, which was refused by the organisers on April 19. Anand finally reached Sofia on April 20, after a 40-hour road journey. The first game was consequently delayed by one day.

 

The World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand received a gold medal, cup and a garland. Veselin Topalov received a silver medal and a cup. They also received a paintings from Darina Yaneva’s solo exhibition "The Chess Game", which was a part of the official program of the match.

The Organizing Committee congratulated the world champion with his favorite Indian song.The prize fund of the match is 2 million EUR, of which 1.2 million are for the winner of the match, and 800 thousand EUR for the defeated player.

The postal articles (an envelope and а postage stamp) devoted to the match for the World Chess Championship "Anand-Topalov”