New Stamp from India…

 

Civil Aviation Centenary

Date of Issue : 14 March 2012

India Post  issued a set of  four stamps and a Miniature Sheet on 14 March 2012  to commemorate 100 years of civil aviation in the country.Indian Civil Aviation completed 100 years on 18th February, 2011. 

: Mansoor B., Mangalore

 

Interview

Recently Etv Gujarati had taken Interview  of renowned philatelist of Ahmedanad Mr Praful Thakkar.  It could be viewed  on following URL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBjjz5i7Iqg&context=C40d6959ADvjVQa1PpcFMCT2VUYjT5FZCAdOQNUyPCUOVkNeApiuA

Praful Thakkar, the renowned philatelist of Gujarat is Limca Book Record Holder in 2009 for Autographs & Canteen Tokens and  is a collector of autographs, stamps, First Day Covers (FDCs), coins, medals, tokens, badges , badge plates etc. and many more collectibles of India since last more than 45 years. He has written several books on these subjects of Hobbies. His recent book is on autographs. Mr Praful Thakkar may be contacted at e mail : pkthakkar@yahoo.com

Error on stamps

Gum missing

: Vijay Modi, Himmatnagar ( Gujarat)   email : vijay_idom@rediffmail.com

 

Request to contributors

The contributors are requested to send small files for publication. As due to unavoidable reasons I am unable to download heavy files.

My  broadband connection is not working for the last 15 days due to Big Road repair project on Shamshi - Kullu  highway and all telephone lines of BSNL have been broken down in whole Shamshi area   for unlimited period . This has caused lot of problem for Internet connectivity in offices and home. Now I am using another 2G connection which takes time to download heavy files. So plz do not send  your mails with heavy files.

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New stamps on Astronomy from Germany

 

Date of Issue : 11 August 2011

German Post will issue four new stamps on Astronomy on 11 August 2011.

Courtesy : Shrikant Parikh, Ahmedabad

Club News

Real Tributes to unsung heroes by a Philatelist…

Here I wish to share a great work and  service by Mr Anil Dhir, renowned philatelist from Bhubaneshwar. Mr Dhir is known for his extraordinary   work and  deep research in  philately and   social fields. “The Last Post” is an excellent example of his work with many more to mention… His selfless effort  and love for deep research makes him always very special in his work and findings. Here is another finest piece of work rather great service done by him….Read the full story !

 

1945 - An untold story of war & love

- DN Singh

This story begins with a visit to the Madras War Cemetery early this year, by a man in quest of a trace dating back some 66 years. The man in question, Anil Dhir has a penchant for history and has an enviable record in unearthing the glories of the past. Dhir says he was in search of material for his article on the War Cemeteries in India, which took him from one end of the geography to the other. 

His quest landed him in Chennai, where the Madras War Cemetery is situated. The Cemetery presented interesting clues before Dhir and a challenge too. At the Cemetery he had a tryst with an interesting disclosure - a set of fourteen graves which were of airmen who had apparently died in a plane crash at Amarda Road. The fourteen individually named headstones were arranged side-by-side, but from the Cemetery Registry it was learnt that they had been interred as a collective grave. A collective grave is a burial of recovered remains which, though not individually identified, constitute of a small group of known individuals.

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It is a gigantic task, almost impossible to locate the living relatives of  the  airmen   who died in crash many years ago..... and  real  heart felt tributes to the  unsung heroes by Mr Anil Dhir  who is always in the quest of something different and unique !!  This is a heart touching story. To do this work one must have a great patience to work and wait .....which Mr Dhir has proved...in many  of his tasks done in past years.... The Last Post by Anil Dhir is one such example , well  known to   philatelists...   Philatelic Community is proud to be asscoited with Mr Dhir !! Great work  by him !!

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New Stamps from Malaysia

 

 

Pos Malaysia will issue a set of 3 stamps today on 100 years of aviation.

 

Date of Issue 7 July 2011

: Thevarayan Srinivasan, Klang - Malaysia

My recent Cover

Cover from France 

 

Thanks to David Jastrzebski from Dijon - France   for these wonderful stamps and nice Cover.

Special Covers

Maharashtra

 

  

: Ashwani Dubey - Gorakhpur

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