What’s New: Added a new picture postcard at the end.
Original Post – 2022:
‘The Hindu’ newspaper published on 02-Jul-2022 carried an article about a missing Tamil Bible from the Saraswathi Mahal Library at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu. What’s interesting is that book happens or is considered to be the first Tamil translation of the Bible!
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What’s new – 2023 December: Add a new stamp at the end.
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
– Mason Cooley, American aphorist
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“A fortress doesn’t fall unless its towers are weakened.”
– S. R. Crawford, Bloodstained Betrayal (Source: goodreads dot com)
It was at my favourite book store in Chennai during my high school days that I first saw a stamp from Malta. Till then I never knew that such a country exists. I bought the stamp on impulse immediately. That was the only Malta stamp in my collection for several years.
I was surprised after reading an article in the supplementary of THE HINDU last Thursday. Another related article in the newspaper the following day aroused my curiosity even more. The second article had details of an exhibition in Chennai that was on till Sunday evening. I didn’t want to miss the exhibition. So I visited the exhibition with my wife on Sunday afternoon. And what an eye-opener it was!?
I wrote the first version of this post for the 375th Madras Day in 2014. Additional information about places and few stamps were added for the 377th Madras Day in 2016. Further philatelic items were added for the 379th Madras Day in 2018. Now it is the 383th Madras Day in 2022 and this post definitely needs an update.
Being born and brought up in this lovely city and being a stamp collector, I don’t have a better way to show my love for this city than through stamps.
What’s New: Additional content and related postal materials have been added.
After so many years I went to the Music Academy to watch a play. Little did I realize that I will be immersed in the experience for days after watching it. My wife and I have never read the novel that the show was based on. We went to watch it with an open mind.
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