The flower on this stamp has a name and a maker
A 1985 Indian stamp that looks like a bunch of pretty flowers is in fact a portrait of one named, registered cultivar — nature given a pedigree and a place in a list.
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India celebrated 125 years of a police system born after 1857
A 1986 stamp counts 125 years of Indian policing back to 1861 — the colonial law, written in the wake of 1857, that independent India never stopped using.
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The runners with no country
A 1990 Indian stamp for the Beijing Asian Games strips sport of flags, uniforms and nationality — then puts China’s Great Wall in the corner.
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The word that made the declaration universal
A universal declaration came within one word of saying men. It says human beings because of Hansa Mehta — and in 1998 India put the anniversary on a stamp, released pointedly on Women’s Day.
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The stamp priced at an age
A 1988 Indian stamp where the denomination was the message — 60 paise for the age of 60, nearly two decades before the sentiment became law.
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The Wild Tree and the Bred Palm – Two Indian Stamps, One Cancellation
Two Indian tree stamps ended up on the same scrap of mail, tied by one postmark. One tree seeds itself across dry India. The other was reshaped by a research station.
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Stamp Collecting 1989 – The Stamp That Collected Itself
India’s 60-paise Stamp Collecting stamp shows a child sorting a collection – a hobby whose own name, the design note admits, means “fond of the tax-exempt.”
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Hyderabad Was Built Around One Building. The Charminar Stamp Never Says So.
India Post gave Hyderabad a stamp for its four-hundredth birthday. The building on it was standing before there was a city to celebrate.
