Master Class on "Postal Stationery Airgraphs of India" by AMSI

Master Class on "Postal Stationery Airgraphs of India"

By Air Mail Society India Foundation (AMSI)

Friday 26 June 2026 : Time : 7PM IST

 

Join on 26 June 2026 (tomorrow) for a Master Class on "Postal Stationery Airgraphs of India" by renowned postal stationery expert Mr. Wayne Menuz.

Learn about:

🔹 The history and development of Airgraphs during World War II

🔹 India's role in the international Airgraph network

🔹 Airgraph forms, rates, varieties, and rare usages

🎤 Followed by the presentation on "Pigeon Mails of India" by Mr. Sanjay Prabhakar Jagtap.

🗓️ Friday, 26 June 2026 (tomorrow)

🕖 7:00 PM (India Time)

💻 Zoom Meeting

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/AMSIMonthlyMeeting

Meeting ID: 830 617 6468

Passcode: 180211

The session is open to all and free of charge.

Club News

 

Glimpses: Vadophil 51st Anniversary Release 

Baroda Philatelic Society marked its 51st anniversary with a special coffee-table edition of Vadophil, released during a Zoom meeting on 11 June 2026.  

The publication was formally unveiled by Shri Ganesh Sawaleshwarkar, Chief Postmaster General of the Gujarat Postal Circle, and Shri Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Postmaster General of the Vadodara Region.  

The online ceremony was attended by 45 participants, including society members and distinguished philatelists from across India. 

Shri Ganesh Sawaleshwarkar, Chief Postmaster General of the Gujarat Postal Circle, and Shri Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Postmaster General of the Vadodara Region graced the occasion. 

Release of Publication by Dignitaries

Club News

 

AMSI Zoom Meeting

Friday 23 May 2025   IST  7.00 PM 

CET 3.30 PM   GMT 2.30 PM   ET  9.30 AM

News from Air Mail Society India Foundation

   

Air Mail Society India Foundation Zoom Meeting

First Monthly Zoom Meeting of AMSI will be held on 23rd May 2025 at 7:00 PM IST / 3:30 PM CET / 2:30 PM GMT / 9:30 AM ET. 

Zoom Meeting Link: https://tinyurl.com/AMSIzoom

Meeting ID: 954 5217 0103

Passcode: 889501

Club News

 

Karnataka Philatelic Society

ELECTION OF THE OFFICE BEARERS FOR THE TWO-YEAR TERM 2023 – 2025: 15 October 2023

Newly elected KPS committee for 2023 - 2025

As per the byelaws of the Karnataka Philatelic Society Bengaluru, the term of the new office bearers for the term 2023 - 2025.

President - Chaytinya Dev

Vice President - Sushil Mehra

Treasurer - G K Shenoy 

General Secretary - Akhil Reddy C M

Governing Council Members - 

1.Manish A Jain

2.Reshma P V

3.Praveen Shastry P M

 Basavangudi Post Office on Philately Day

Basavangudi Children from Achieve School of Education, Basavangudi, Bengaluru visited the Post Office at Basavangudi on 11 October 2023.  The officials of the Post Office and the philatelist Shri. Praveen Shastry welcomed the children and taught them how a post office works and how letters are sent.  Small gifts like pencils and chocolates were given to children by the Post Office people.

- Praveen Shastry- Bangalore

Club News

 

‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ to Madhukar Deogawanka by Bhartiya Daktikit Sagnstha (BDS), Kolkata

Bharatiya Daktikit Sangstha (BDS) conferred ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ on Shri Madhukar Deogawanka for his outstanding contribution to the Indian Philately on Sunday 4th September 2022 in Kolkata. Shri Dipok Dey, President of BDS, handed over the trophy to Shri Deogawanka. Shri Dilip Das, Vice-President of BDS, and Shri Abhijit Gupta, Secretary of BDS gave the Certificate and Uttariya to Shri Deogawanka respectively. Eminent philatelists Shri Partha Chakraborty and Shri Babul Dey were also present.

- Babul Dey , Kolkata

New Special Cover from Odisha

 68th Birth Anniversary: Bijayshree Routaray : 28 July 2021

Founder President: Eastern India Philatelists' Association EIPA

A Special cover on 68th Birth anniversary of Shri Bijayshree Routary was released today 28 July 2021, at Postal Recreation Club, Chief Postmaster General Office, Bhubaneswar

Source : EIPA 

Postcrossing 2021

Postcards from all over the world with "Postcrossing”

Date of Issue: 14 July 2021

The internet platform Postcrossing connects people worldwide through postcards. The design, created by Theresa Radlingmaier, shows stylized postcards and the happy faces of those who receive them.

Portuguese Paulo Magalhães founded "Postcrossing" in 2015 with the aim of connecting people worldwide through postcards. Anyone who registers on the online platform is sent a random address of another member. People then send a postcard to this address. As soon as the other member has received the postcard and entered it in the system, you can receive postcards yourself. The more postcards you send, the more you can receive.

In Austria, thousands of people are also already registered on Postcrossing, and worldwide over 800,000 people from more than 200 countries use the platform. By May 2021, a total of over 60 million postcards had been sent and so the plan to motivate people to write postcards and connect them in this way has worked out.

Club News

News from Philatelic Society

NEW COMMITTEE OF CENTRAL INDIA PHILATELIC SOCIETY ELECTED

47 years old Central India Philatelic Society elected its new working committee. In a general meeting held on 11th July 2021 at Usha Palace, Satna (M.P.), the following office bearers were elected unanimously –

President: Mr. Sudhir Jain

Vice President: Mr. Uma Shankar Agarwal

Secretary: Mr. Rajendra Agrawal “Shashi”

Joint Secretary: Mr. Pankaj Pratap Singh

Treasurer: Mr. Manmohan Maheshwari

Joint Treasurer: Mr. Sachin Tolwani

P.R.O.: Mr. Ravi Prakash Gupta

Exhibition Convener:     Dr. Himanshu Agarwal

Working Committee: Mr. Ashok Kumar Jain, Mr. Praveen Kumar Khatri,

        Mr. Jinendra Kumar Jain, Mr. Surendra Kumar Gupta,

        Mr. Udit Tiwari, Mr. Vinay Gupta.

        Mr. Ashok Mahule, Mr. Azam Siddique

In this meeting, members decided to publish a book covering all the newspapers issued in Satna District since the beginning. Mr. Sudhir Jain displayed a collection of Permanent Pictorial Cancellations, Mr. Ravi Prakash Gupta displayed a collection of unusual special covers like silk covers etc. Mr. Pankaj Pratap Singh and Mr. Sachin Tolwani displayed Pre & Post Independence one Rupee coins. Mr. Ashok Kumar Mohale exhibited “Gandhi Chavanni (Quarter Rupee)” which was minted in Satna in the year 1942 for collecting funds for the independence movement.

It is worth to mention that the Central India Philatelic Society was established in the year 1974 and organized many National level, State level, and local Philatelic exhibitions at various places like Satna, Rewa, Bhilai, Korba, Khajuraho etc. Society arranged to issue 21 special covers and published 12 souvenirs.

Meeting concluded with condolence to senior member Mr. Kuldeepak Oberai and Mrs. Usha Jain wife of founder member Mr. Ashok Kumar Jain.

- Sudhir Jain : Satna (MP)

Recent Special Covers from Tamilnadu

Centenary Celebrations of Indian Red Cross Society

The Mission of the Indian Red Cross Society is to inspire, encourage and initiate at all times all forms of humanitarian activities so that human suffering can be minimized and even prevented and thus contribute to creating more congenial climate for peace.Indian Red Cross Society Tamil Nadu Branch is celebrating its Centenary (1920-2020) in India.

The Special Cover was released to commemorate the occasion of Centenary Celebration of the Indian Red Cross Society¬Tamil Nadu Branch on 28th January 2020.

Clubfest - First festival of Philatelic Clubs in Chennai

Aimed at promoting Philately, the King of Hobbies, Permanent Philatelic Exhibition was inaugurated at the Philatelic Bureau of Anna Road Head Post Office on 15.08.2017 where exhibits on different themes are displayed. Philatelic Workshops were conducted at Schools to help them open Philatelic Clubs and Philatelic Deposit Accounts. There are 160 Philatelic Clubs in Chennai. With a view to encourage the budding Philatelists, CLUBFEST 2020 is organized at Anna Road Philatelic Bureau @ Chennai, for a period of one month from 12.02.2020. During this Philatelic Festival, the members of Philatelic Clubs will get an opportunity to showcase their philatelic talents.

This Special Cover and Cancellation was released on 12th February, 2020, to mark the inauguration of CLUBFEST 2020.

-Suresh R., Bengaluru

SIKKIMPEX 2019, Sikkim Philatelic Exhibition, Gangtok

Two day Philatelic Exhibition  SIKKIMPEX 2019 (Feb 21-22) was held at Modern Senior Secondary School, Gangtok. Two Special Covers were released on the occasion. The event was organised by Sikkim Postal Department.

Special Cover on Pakyong Airport that was the 100^th Operational Airport of India was released on the inaugural day by Ramtanu Shah, Airport Director, Pakyong. Royal Coronation throne of Norbugang, Yuksom was featured on a special cover was released on the next day by Dr. Anira Phipon Lepcha, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Sikkim University. Both the covers were designed by Singtam based philatelist Roshan Prasad.

Philatelic exhibition was held at Sikkim after ten years. Twenty one philatelists from different parts of Sikkim, Darjeeling and Siliguri had participated at the exhibition. Those philatelists were members of Sikkim Philatelic and Numismatic Society.  Souvik Roy and Eeshita Basu Roy from Kolkata were among the invited philatelist.

Eighty Six frames of philatelic materials were displayed that included rare postage stamps and other postal stationeries. Also displayed on the philatelic frames was International award winning exhibits on Cricket, National award winning exhibits on Music, a rare 14 frame exhibits on Buddhism of Souvik Roy and other popular exhibits.

List of participants included Ganesh Pradhan, CP Raya, Shital Pradhan, Deepen Pradhan, Vivek Yonzone, Padam Parajuli, Sushil Karthak, Sunita Gurung, Sishir Pradhan, Sheila Rai, Sanskriti Sharma, Tejeswani Neopane and others.

The other major highlight of the two day event was a book released on dictionary of stamps. ‘The Stamp Collectors' Dictionary’ written by Roshan Prasad and published by Sikkim Postal Department was released on the first day. Vivek Yonzone from Darjeeling conducted philatelic workshop that was appreciated by students and crowds present. There were Quiz competition, Letter writing competitions and drawing competitions was organised for the school students.

The list of participating schools included Holy Cross School, St. Xavier’s School, Deorali Girls Senior Secondary School, Tashi Namgyal Senior Secondary School, West Point Sr. Secondary School, Tathangchen School, Modern Senior Secondary School, Rongneyk Jr. High School, Enchey Senior Secondary School and Manjushree School.

- Shital Pradhan

Club News

News from Jaipur Philatelic Society

Jaipur Philatelic Society, Jaipur

Registered office:”Saket”HouseNo.1282, Sector 1 Malviya Nagar, Jaipur 302017.

Meeting of the Jaipur Philatelic Society, Jaipur was held on 17th February 2019 at the residence of Mr. Arun Mehta and chaired by President Shri Jatan Mal Dhor.

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Patrons

1. Mr.  Jatan mal Dhor.

2 Mr. Shanti Prashad Jain.

President : Mr. Kailash Narain Mathur.

Vice Presidents

1.       Mr. A.K. Gupta.

2.       Mr.Arun Mehta

3.       Dr. Rakesh Thapar.

General Secretary :  Mr. K.K. Bhatia.

Secretary  Mr. Ajay Mathur.

Treasurer Mr. Brij Behari Sharma

Executive Members

Mr Kedar Nath Soni.

Mr. Madhav Ramchandani

Mr. Narendra Bairathi.

Mr. Nawal Kishore Tatiwala.

Mr. R.K. Agarwal.

Mr. S.R. Bafna

Mr. Vikas Sharma

Regional Co-coordinators

Ajmer

Mr. Vikas Jain

Bhilwara

Mr. Arvind Jain

Fatehpur Shekhwati

Mr. Pramod Kumar Jain.

Udaipur

Mr. M.R. Bhandari

After this charge was handed over to new Executive team.

Out Going President Mr. J.M. Dhor thanked all the members for their cooperation extended in his 10 years tenure. He also wished new executive team every success and assured his full support.

Newly elected President Mr. K.N.Mathur gave vote of thanks to all the members for their support. He assured new team will take Philately to new heights and add some new members and to promote philately in other parts of Rajasthan.

To promote Philately new student members will be added and Rs.100 /- per annum will be charged.

For new members Rs. 300/- per Anum will be charged. And it will be made available for only one year.

 Life Membership will be Rs.1500/- It will be one time charge.

Society will be issuing Life Members card on Payment and it will be processed in coming months.

- Ajay Mathur

Secretary

Jaipur Philatelic Society , Jaipur

Workshop by Sikkim Philatelic and Numismatic Society

Gangtok, June 11: Sikkim Philatelic and Numismatic Society conducted a one day Philatelic and Numismatic workshop at Tashi Namgyal Academy at Gangtok on June 9. Display of philatelic and numismatic materials was also kept for the students.  TNA becomes the first school in Sikkim to set up a Philatelic and Numismatic club, reads the press release.

The power-point presentation of how to start philately was explained by Vivek Yonzone while the Numismatic Workshop was carried out by Vikrant Yonzone. Ganesh Pradhan, President SPNS congratulated the school for coming up with the hobby club for students. Pradhan thanked Retd. Major VK Pillai, Director cum Principal, TNA for initiating the hobby club. Shital Pradhan, Secretary, SPNS speaking on the occasion appealed to the students to appreciate the beauty of the hobby and pursue it with sincerity and dedication. Philatelic and Numismatic hobbies if done in a proper way can give you name, fame and above all knowledge of the world around, added Pradhan.

Roshan Prasad, International Medalist on Philately shared with the students about launching a Scholarship Scheme called Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana to award children in the class category of Standard VI to IX by the Department of Posts, Government of India. From the TNA school, teachers involved at the stamp club included Parbati Basnett, Kelsang Wangmoo, Nirmala Pradhan and Adwina Gurung.

: Shital Pradhan, Gangtok 

Multilaterale Hertogpost 2017

What is the “Multilaterale”?

The Multilaterale is an initiative that came from the Philatelist Associations of the German-speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg) as well of Slovenia and the Netherlands. The 2017 Multilaterale in s’Hertogenbosch.

This year, the Dutch Philatelist Association and the Dutch Post Office  organised the exhibition from the 25th to 27th of August in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Because Luxembourg will be organising the next exhibition in 2019, PostNL and POST Luxembourg will issue for this matter a joint postage stamp block for 2017.

Club News

The 42nd AGM meeting of the members of Karnataka Philatelic Society held today was attended by 88 members,concluded successfully by electing the new team.

Karnataka Philatelic Society new Governing Council Members

President & Acting Treasurer - Chaitanya Dev

Vice President - Nikhilesh Melkote

Gen. Secretary - Naveein OC

Council Member - Girish Kumar

Council Members - Shonet Saldhana

A Book " Indian Stamps featuring personages from Abroad" by Philatelist MR.D.B Ramakrishna was released by former KPS President Mr. Mahesh Jambuligam along with Dr. Sita Bateja and Mr. Chaitanya Dev and the Author D.B Ramakrishna after the AGM.

- Suresh Rao , Bangalore

40 Years of Karnataka Philatelic Society

 

Dr Sita Bhateja was honoured with lifetime achievement award at 40th anniversary celebration of Karnataka Philatelic Society on 6th December 2015.

To celebrate its 40th Anniversary Karnataka Philatelic Society organized a function at Meghdoot Auditorium, General Post Office Building, Rajbhavan Road, Bengaluru on 6th December 2015. On the occasion a Special Cover on 40 years of Karnataka Philatelic Society was released by Smt. Usha Chandrasekhar, Chief Postmaster General, Karnataka Postal Circle in presence of Shri Chaitanya Dev, President, Karnataka Philatelic Society and Shri Markand Dave, India Representative of Royal Philatelic Society (Special Cover approval no. KTK/52/2015).

On the occasion renowned philatelist Dr. Sita Bhateja was awarded lifetime achievement award. Special edition of KarPhila Magazine was also released at the function. After the function a joint meeting with Royal Philatelic Society of London was also organized. Function was well attended by a large number of members and philatelists.

 

 

Karnataka Philatelic Society (KPS) was founded in 1975 in Bangalore by late Col. L. G. Shenoy and like minded senior philatelists and was registered with Government of Karnataka on 22nd March, 1976. Col. L.G. Shenoi was the first President and Sri Fredun P. Seervai was the first General Secretary of KPS. The KPS acts as a platform for philately in Karnataka especially in Bangalore. The key charter of the society is to promote philately as hobby starting from young kids to senior citizens.

Many Many Congratulations to KPS on completing 40 years !!

Best wishes to all  the members of the present committee of KPS to continue their great work to promote philately all over India !!

Courtesy – Jagannath Mani & Suresh Rao - Bangalore

 

The Special cover of World Soil Day released at Thiruvananthapuram on 5th Dec 2015

World Soil Day celebrations was organised by the departments of Agriculture and Soil Conservation at Thiruvananthapuram on 5th December 2015. On the occasion a Special Cover was released by Chief Postmaster General Sri A. N. Nanda in a function held at Senate Hall, Thiruvananthapuram. The cover was accepted by the Hon'ble Minister of Agriculture Sri. K. P. Mohanan from Chief PMG Shri A. N. Nanda (Special Cover approval no. KL-12/2015).

United Nations had declared 2015 as International Year of Soils and the United Nations theme for this year's World Soil Day is "Soils a solid ground for life". Soils have been neglected for too long. We fail to connect soil with our food, water, climate, biodiversity and life. We must invert this tendency and take up some preserving and restoring actions. The World Soil Day campaign aims to connect people with soils and raise awareness on their critical importance in our lives. The World Soil Day campaign aims to connect people with soils and raise awareness on their critical importance in our lives.

Courtesy - Suresh Rao , Bengalore : email : suresh.hobbies@gmail.com ;  Indian Philately Digest