The 1989 Stamp That Reminded India to Use Its Postcode
Seventeen years after India built its six-digit sorting system, the Post Office was still urging the public to write it down. In 1989 that reminder became a stamp.
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Borrowed Power — The 1989 Fleet Review Stamp and the Submarine India Had to Give Back
In 1989, India Post put a submarine at the center of a naval triumph stamp – one the Navy didn’t actually own, and had already agreed to hand back.
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India’s First Heroine Wasn’t a Woman. The Stamp Never Says So.
A platinum-jubilee stamp honors the birth of Indian cinema — but the film it pictures couldn’t find a single woman willing to appear in it.
