History through Philately, This day (11.07.2021)That year
Courtesy : Mr.Kumar, SIPA
Courtesy Mr M K Krishnaiyya #Udupi
Ardeshir Burjorji Sorabji Godrej was an Indian businessman. With his brother Pirojsha Burjorji, he co-founded the Godrej Brothers Company, the precursor of the modern Godrej Group.
Ardeshir was employed at a pharmacy, where he served as an assistant to a chemist. In 1895, Ardeshir visited Merwanji Muncherji Cama, a friend of his father's, and who was highly respected for his business acumen. Ardeshir described his plan to manufacture surgical equipment and asked for a loan. When Cama asked why Ardeshir did not approach his father for the loan, Ardeshir replied that his father would give him the money not as a loan but as a gift, which Ardeshir was not willing to accept. This principle to not accept money as a gift would also become evident in 1918, when his father died: Ardeshir refused to accept the inheritance.
With Rs. 3,000 from Cama, Ardeshir began manufacturing "scalpels, forceps, pincers, scissors and the other implements of a surgeon's trade."
Ardeshir read a newspaper report on the rise of burglary incidents in the city and grasped that a better lock was needed, and began to research the subject. He soon discovered that the locks made in India were all fashioned by hand, a labour-intensive and inefficient means of manufacture, and Ardeshir resolved to manufacture a lock that would be guaranteed "unpickable". A few years later, Ardeshir patented the first of his inventions, a lock that would subsequently be called a "Gordian Lock".
In 1901, Ardeshir turned to experimenting with safes. Ardeshir resolved to build a safe that was not only burglarproof, but fireproof as well, which as he determined, most safes were not.
Ardeshir continued experimenting with safes, and the business took off following the San Francisco earthquake, where the subsequent fire caused more damage than the earthquake itself. Following the publication of an article in Scientific American (26 May 1908) that revealed that most safes were in fact not fireproof, Ardeshir held a public demonstration to prove that the safes would protect the contents in the advent of a fire. The demonstration was a resounding success, but it would not be until the Calcutta Dharamtalla Street fire of April 1925 when the safes demonstrated their worth in that conflagration. The supreme test came in 1944, eight years after Ardeshir's death. The fires that resulted from an ammunition explosion at Bombay's Victoria docks raged for days, and the loss of life and property was enormous, but the contents in many of the Godrej safes survived, including one belonging to a bank.
When his attention was drawn to the fact that all soaps in the world contained tallow and other animal fats (inappropriate to many stringently vegetarian Hindus), he found a method to manufacture soap from vegetable oils, a procedure that everyone told him was impossible.
Ardeshir was incensed and resolved that if India was ever to be independent, it would have to develop a local industry that was economically self-reliant. For Ardeshir, independence could not be achieved by simply boycotting British goods.
Ardeshir found the passivity of Gandhi's non-violence movement exasperating and insisted that India could become independent only if it actively made itself independent, and that self-reliance (Swadeshi) could only be achieved when accompanied by mental self-reliance, that is, self-respect.
Dakshin Gangotri was the first scientific base station of India situated in Antarctica, part of the Indian Antarctic Programme. It is located at a distance of 2,500 kilometres from the South Pole. It is currently being used as a supply base and transit camp. The base is named after Dakshin Gangotri Glacier.
It was established during the third Indian expedition to Antarctica in 1983–84. This was the first time an Indian team spent a winter in Antarctica to carry out scientific works. The station was built in eight weeks by an 81-member team that included Geologist Sudipta Sengupta. Construction was completed late into January 1984 with help from the Indian Army and Indian Republic Day was celebrated at the station along with the Soviets and East Germans.
It was set up using indigenous Indian equipment, powered by Solar energy. The station was entirely computerised to record all data that was researched. It had an Inmarsat communication terminal, as well as an amateur radio station.
An automatic weather recording station, powered by solar energy was set up at the Dakshin Gangotri. Apart from this, the station was used to conduct tests on radio waves in Antarctica. Other functions of the Dakshin Gangotri included observations of physical oceanography, the chemistry of the freshwater lakes around, biological traits of the land, biological traits of the water, geology, glaciology and geomagnetism of the area.
In 1984, site for a new runway was identified at a distance of 2 km from the station. Along with this, 2000 philatelic covers were marked with Dakshin Gangotri. Later, in the same year, a small field station was set up in the hills, to allow direct communication over a high frequency satellite link between Indian mainland and the station.
The first Indian post office in Antarctica was established at Dakshin Gangotri and Meteorologist G. Sudhakar Rao was named as the first Indian Postmaster in Antarctica in 1988.
Courtesy: Mr.Basakaran , SIPA Treasurer.
*TODAY*
*World Population Day*
World Population Day is a yearly occasion, saw on July 11 consistently, which looks to bring issues to light of global populace issues. The event was set up by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program in 1989.
The day expects to build individuals’ mindfulness on different populace issues, such as the significance of family arranging, including sexual orientation fairness, neediness, maternal wellbeing, and human rights. The day is commended worldwide by business gatherings, network associations, and people from numerous perspectives. Exercises incorporate course conversations, instructive data meetings, and article rivalries.
The present reality has its most prominent age of youth ever – 1.8 billion youngsters, for the most part in creating nations – with huge potential to help tackle the significant difficulties confronting humanity. Be that as it may, too many are denied their legitimate chances to get quality instruction, find average work, and take an interest in their social ordares’ political existence. Total populace Day is a chance to restore our responsibility to assist youthful with peopling release progress across society
Activity is direly required. Such a large number of youngsters need assets they have to lift themselves out of poverty. Young adult young ladies are, for the most part, vulnerable, because of face segregation, sexual viciousness, early marriage, and undesirable pregnancies.
What’s more, even among those youngsters lucky enough to get college degrees, many wind up without work or stuck in low-wage, impasse employments. By engaging the present youth, we can lay the foundation for an increasingly manageable future for a long time.
*Tamilvanan Philatelist & Numismatist*
Courtesy: Mr N.h. Agrawal
ЁЯСиЁЯСйЁЯСзЁЯСжЁЯФ╗The United Nations Development Programme recommended the introduction of World Population Day in 1989, inspired by the public interest and awareness that was created by "Five Billion Day" on July 11, 1987 when the world's population reached 5 billion.
Courtesy: Mr Pratap Adtiya.
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