The World Philately News Dt 16.08.2921

- August 15, 2021

🙏Tributes to Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee " on his Death anniversary 🙏.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian statesman who served three terms as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He was the first Indian prime minister not of the Indian National Congress to serve a full term in office. He was also noted as a poet and a writer.

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Courtesy *A. Chandra Sekhar Sarab*

Complete Set of 2nos.of postage stamps issued on (16/August/1988) the 40th.Anniversary of the Indipendence of India.

To mark this occasion the India Post is issuing this stamps commemorating the contribution of Bal Gangadhar Tilak towards the cause of freedom and his famous call "Swaraj is my birthright" / This composite Se-tenant stamps features a painting by M.F.Husain , the beginning of the historical statement by Tilak in Marathi is printed over the stamps. First day cover is designed with a sketch of the frontline leaders of the Indian independence movement , Lala Lajpat Rai , Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra pal ( Lal Bal , Pal ) the design is done by K.S.Radhakrishnan.

Courtesy Mr Bibhuti Mohan Mohanty.

*SUBHADRA KUMARI CHAUHAN*

The popular Hindi litterateur and freedom fighter was born on August 16, 1904, at in Nihalpur village in Allahabad district

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan joined Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921 and became the first woman Satyagrahi.

She was imprisoned twice by the British Raj in 1923 and 1942.

She was elected a Member of the Central Province’s Legislative Assembly.

She died on February 15 1948 in a car accident close to Seoni , M.P.

She composed her first poem titled Neem at the age of nine which was published in Maryada magazine.

She authored Jhansi Ki Rani a patriotic and poetic rendition on the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi besides 88 poems and 46 short stories in Khariboli dialect

Her literary works in simple and effective style portray nationalism, woman and children welfare.

The Indian Coast Guard commissioned a fast patrol vessel ICGS Subhadra Kumari Chauhan April 26, 2006

The Government of Madhya Pradesh installed her statute in the office premises of Jabalpur Municipal Corporation.

Google commemorated Subhadra Kumari with a Doodle on her 117th birth anniversary on August 16, 2021

# FDC issued on the August 06, 1976, to commemorate 72 birth anniversary features the poet patriot on the cover and stamp with place of birth cancellation from Allahabad

# Special Cover issued on September 09, 2004 for JABLAIPEX 2004 to commemorates the 100 birth anniversary the poet and patriot features her statue in the office premises of Jabalpur Municipal Corporation.

An OPE collected and compiled by Dr M K SUDHAKAR MD, Philatelic Hobbyist and Life Member, SIPA Chennai

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Courtesy Mr Mahesh B. Parekh

_*"Sare Jahan se Accha",*_ _"Tarānah-e-Hindi" "Anthem of the People of Hindustan",_ is an Urdu language patriotic song for children written by poet _Muhammad Iqbal_ in the ghazal style of Urdu poetry. The poem was published in the weekly journal _Ittehad_ on *16 August 1904.* Publicly recited by Iqbal the following year at Government College, Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan) it quickly became an anthem of opposition to the British Raj. The song, an ode to Hindustan—the land comprising present-day Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, was later published in 1924 in the Urdu book Bang-i-Dara.

The song has remained popular, but only in India. An abridged version is sung and played frequently as a patriotic song and as a marching song of the Indian Armed Forces.

*Iqbal* was a lecturer at the Government College, Lahore at that time, and was invited by a student _Lala Har Dayal_ to preside over a function. Instead of delivering a speech, Iqbal sang _*"Saare Jahan Se Achcha".*_ The song, in addition to embodying yearning and attachment to the land of Hindustan, expressed _"cultural memory"_ and had an elegiac quality. In 1905, the 27-year-old Iqbal viewed the future society of the subcontinent as both a pluralistic and composite Hindu-Muslim culture. Later that year he left for Europe for a three-year sojourn that was to transform him into an Islamic philosopher and a visionary of a future Islamic society.

Courtesy: Mr Rajeev Kholi

On 16th August 1958 *Satyajit Ray’s* acclaimed film *Pather Panchali* won the top *five awards* at the _Vancouver Film Festival,_ including an award for Feature Length Motion Picture. Apart from that, Pather Panchali got an honourary mention at the film festival as well.

*Pather Panchali,* which means _“Song of the Little Road”,_ is a Bengali film directed by legendary Indian film maker, Satyajit Ray and was produced by the Government of West Bengal. The film is based on a Bengali novel by the same name written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. Pather Panchali marked Ray’s debut as a director and was made on a tight budget of Rs. 1,50,000 and features young and inexperienced actors and crew.
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*John Stith Pemberton,* passed away on 16 August 1888, was an American pharmacist who is best known as the inventor of
*Coca-Cola.* In May 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become world-famous as *Coca-Cola,* but sold his rights to the drink shortly before his death.
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*Don Bosco,* born on 16 August 1815, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator, and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill-effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System.