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The Nehru stamps
S. MUTHIAH
Crores worth of stamps were on exhibition at the X India National Philatelic Exhibition held in the city recently, but the million-class Penny Black and the Scinde Dawks left me as unimpressed as the stamps themselves were unimpressive. What fascinat
ed me were the theme collections - and there seemed to be no end to themes, from simple fish, flower, bird and animal themes to Gandhi, monuments and space collections. But those collections that particularly caught my eye was one of stamps from countries no longer in existence, the cardboard tickets that replaced the copper tickets I had referred to last week, and the Nehru collection.
How many of the Nehru family have figured in Indian stamps. Raja Seetharaman, that most enthusiastic of Madras philatelists, provides the answer in his display. It features Motilal, Jawaharlal, Kamala, Vijayalakshmi (Pandit), Indira, Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi and Jawaharlal’s first cousin, social worker Rameshwari Nehru. Apart from Royal dynasties, is there any other family anywhere in the world with so many members of it featuring in the stamps of their country? I wonder whether Seetharaman has an answer.
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