26 February 2019

Mahatma Gandhi on new Serbian Stamp




150 Years since the Birth of Mahatma Gandhi



Date of Issue : 28 February 2019

Serbia Post will issue a commemorative stamp on 28th February to mark 150 years since the birth of Mahatma Gandhi.



Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the leader of the Indian independence movement. With his unusual, yet powerful political instruments of Satyagraha and non-violent protest, Mahatma Gandhi inspired political leaders and human rights and freedom movements all over the world. 



Mahatma Gandhi was born in a wealthy Hindu family in Porbandar (Gujarat). Even in his childhood he was acquainted with the learning about tolerance, non-hurting other people and vegetarianism. He studied law at the University in Bombay and later in London. With his family, wife and children, he spent 20 years in South Africa as an employee at a branch of an Indian company, fighting against discrimination of the Indians in Africa. As a founder of philosophy named Satyagraha – a resistance through mass, non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the greatest political and spiritual leaders of his time.


 
His main goal was the fight for the independence of India which was a British colony at the time. He strived to reduce poverty, liberate women and eradicate discrimination, with the ultimate goal of India becoming an independent country. His efforts paid off when Great Britain finally declared Indian independence on 15 August 1947. Opponents of Indian independence murdered him on 30 January 1948.

The fight of Mahatma Gandhi for freedom and peace inspired human rights movements all around the world, and the United Nations established 2 October, Gandhi’s birthday, as the International Day of Non-Violence which, through education and raising of public conscience, helps spreading the message of non-violence and the wish to secure the culture of peace, tolerance and understanding.
Motif on the stamp: a portrait of Gandhi with symbolic display of the lotus flower in the background.
Motif on the vignette: charkha – a wheel for weaving cotton, a symbol of the passive resistance in India. 
Artistic realization: MA Boban Savić, academic painter.

 - Andjelka Djokic,

   PE Post of Serbia 


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