Issued by Bangladesh

Issued on Aug 5, 2021

Issued for : To celebrate the occasion of 72^nd Birth Anniversary of Martyr Capt. Sheikh Kamal Bangladesh Post has issued a Commemorative stamp of Tk. 10 (ten), a First Day Cover of Tk. 10 (ten), a Data Card of Tk. 5 (five) and a Special Canceller.

Designer (Stamp & FDC) : Mr. Sanjiv Kanti Das

Designer (Canceller) : Mr. Sumanta Kumar

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

No. of Stamp : 01 (One) Piece

Colour : Multicolour

Denomination of Stamp : Tk. 10/- (Ten)

Size of Stamp : 32 mm x 48 mm

Perforation of Stamps : 12.5

Qnt of Stamps : 50,000 (Fifty Thousand) pcs

Process of Printing : Offset

Printer : The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd., Gazipur-1703

Name : Sheikh Kamal

Born on Aug 5, 1949 at Tungipara, East Bengal, Pakistan [now in Bangladesh]

Died on Aug 15, 1975 at Dhaka, Bangladesh

About : 

• Shaheed Sheikh Kamal (5 August 1949 – 15 August 1975) was the eldest son of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and younger brother of Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
• He completed his matriculation from Shaheen School, Dhaka in 1967 and higher Secondary Certificate Examination from Dhaka College in 1969. He was the General Secretary of the Chatro League in Dhaka College. He practiced sitar at Chhayanaut, a school of music. At the same time, he was involved in diverse cultural activities and a keen sportsman. Kamal was an organizer of the Mukti Bahini. Kamal received war time commission in Bangladesh Army during the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
• He worked as the Aide-De-Camp (ADC) of General Osmani the Commander-in-Chief of the Mukti Bahini, during the Liberation War of Bangladesh. After independence, he left the military at the rank of Captain to return to University of Dhaka from where he graduated with Honours in sociology. Days before his tragic demise on 15 August 1975, Kamal completed his Masters Degree in sociology from Dhaka University. On 14 July 1975, he married an athlete, Sultana Khuki.
• Kamal, an avid sportsman, founded the Abahani in 1972, a popular sporting club of Bangladesh. He enjoyed cricket, volleyball, and other sports. Abahani went on to win many local championships. He was killed with the rest of his family on 15 August 1975.
• Source: Wikipedia & others.

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Issued by India

Issued on Jan 28, 2018

Issued for : Department of Posts is pleased to issue a Commemorative Postage Stamp on Dr. Talimeren Ao.

Credits :
Stamp/FDC/Brochure/Cancellation Cachet : Smt. Alka Sharma

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Multi Colour

Denomination : 500 Paise

Stamps Printed : 6.0 lakh

Printing Process : Wet Offset

Printer : Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

Name : Subongwati Talimeren Ningdangri

Born on 28 Jan, 1918 at Changki, Naga hills district, Assam, British India [now Nagaland, India]

Died on 13 Sep, 1998 at Kohima, Nagaland, India

About : 

• Dr. Talimeren Ao was an Indian footballer and physician. He was born on 28 January 1918 in Assam, Naga hills in the village of Changki, in the then Naga Hills District of Assam.
• Dr. Talimeren Ao was captain of Mohun Bagan and Indian football team, flag bearer of the Indian Olympic contingent at the 1948 London Games and perhaps the most famous Naga. A phantom figure who hovers over the football history of free India, his footprints have faded but his name is resonant and powerful in the collective memory of his people.
• Two football tournaments are staged in his name. In Assam, where Talimeren grew up, there are two sporting venues named after him – an indoor stadium in Cotton College, Guwahati, where he studied, and an outdoor venue in Kaliabor, east of the Kaziranga National Park.
• At a time when the Indian Super League (ISL), India’s high-profile football league, has a team called North East United near the top of the points table, it’s worth re-telling the story of the region’s first footballing hero. At the beginning, there will always be Talimeren. The name means the all-glorious or all-mighty in the Ao language and, at 5’10”, he had the physique to back it up. Talimeren was a dominating presence in midfield and defence for nine seasons at Mohun Bagan (1943 to 1952), and a team-mate of Sailen Manna and Taj Mohammed at the London Olympics.
• Talimeren had to give up competitive football to pursue his medical career during the early years of independent India, returning home to Kohima as an assistant civil surgeon at the Civil Hospital in 1953. He retired as Nagaland’s Director of Health Services in 1978 and died in 1998 at the age of 80.
• Talimeren’s life is an implausible odyssey, an enormity of achievement over a short span of time while straddling a vast geography. From the hilltop village of Changki in the Ao tribe’s homeland of Mokokchung in Nagaland, to leading out free India’s first Olympic contingent in London, Talimeren traversed villages, towns, cities and nations.
• Football is central to his storyline. The sport found its way into his life at the age of six or seven, after the Baptist Reverend Subongwati moved his family from Changki to Impur, also in Mokokchung, as part of his missionary work.
• In Impur, Talimeren became his school’s football captain. His game started gathering strength in 1933, when he moved to high school at Jorhat’s Christian Mission School. From there, he moved to Guwahati’s Cotton College, where he was the leading all-round sportsman, collecting medals and trophies in athletics, volleyball and football.
• As a young footballer, he had an appetite for self-improvement. After watching Guwahati’s Maharana Club footballers train on the same ground as his college team, he asked them if he could join. Maharana, Guwahati’s biggest club at the time, turned the Cotton College striker into a defensive midfielder.
• The club were happy to put him up against their opposition, holding back the attacks on goal, and soon Talimeren was noticed as the man who had the temerity to mark and block the sublime Noor Mohammed of Hyderabad City Police. He soaked everything in, borrowing the training methods of better players, and earning a name for himself in the newspaper headlines and bright lights.
• Talimeren’s move from Guwahati to Calcutta, the heart of Indian football, came about after he earned a seat at the Carmichael Medical College (the present-day RG Kar Medical College). His friend from Maharana, Sarat Das, brought him over to Mohun Bagan in 1943, where he first paid a “joining fee” before working his way into their first XI. From then, it was juggling his medical studies and making his mark as a player, then on – within a year – to the Bagan captaincy and finally as India captain for the London Olympics and a short tour of Holland.
• At the Olympics, India almost upset France in their first match, missing two penalties in a 1-2 defeat. After the Olympics, on a tour of club matches in Holland, they beat Ajax Amsterdam 5-2 and of five games in England against club sides, won three and drew two.
• Legend has it that Talimeren was offered a year’s contract with Arsenal but he chose to return to India and continue his studies, earning his MBBS degree in 1950.
• As India captain, he naturally took on the role of leader, the team rallying behind his confidence. Under conventional Naga practice, Talimeren Ao’s name could have read Subongwati Talimeren Ningdangri in full – father’s name followed by son’s name followed by clan.
• Text : Based on the material received from proponent.

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Issued by India

Issued on Aug 20, 1998

Issued for : The Department of Post is happy to issue a stamp in memory of this great football player of India.

Credits :
Stamp : Bharati Mirchandani
FDC & Cancellation : Alka Sharma

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Colour : Single Colour

Denomination : 300 Paise

Overall size : 4.06 x 2.73 cms.

Printing size : 3.71 x 2.38 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Paper : Imported un w/m Adhesive Gravure Coated Stamp Paper in sheets 50.8 x 53.5 cms

Stamps Printed : 0.4 Million

Number per issue sheet : 40

Printing Process : Photogravure

Printer : India Security Press, Nashik

Name : Gostha Behari Paul

Born on Aug 20, 1896 at Bhojeshwar, Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India [now Bangladesh]

Died on Apr 8, 1976 at Kolkata, West Bengal, India

About : 

• Gostha Behari Paul, the doyen of Indian football was born on the 20^th of August, 1896, at Bhojeshwar, a small village of Faridpur district (now in Bangladesh). On his arrival at Calcutta in 1907, Gostha got introduced to the game of football in the Kumartuli Park (north Calcutta). In 1911, Mohun Bagan became the first Indian outfit to lift the IFA Shield defeating the Yorkshire Regiment 2-1. The Indians, who had been at the receiving end all the time, suddenly realised the joy of victory over Britishers. The game became very popular in India particularly in West Bengal, and this popularity can perhaps be attributed to the Charisma of Gostha Paul, who became a legend in his lifetime. This barefooted Indian player rose to greater heights of glory. He became a symbol of hopes and aspirations of the pre-independence generation who longed for India and Indians to take their rightful place on the world platform.
  
• Discovered by Late Rajen Sen at Bhagyakul, Gostha played his first match for Mohun Bagan at the age of 16 in 1913 against Dalhousie F.C. He played for Mohun Bagan, without a break, for the next 22 years till 1935. After a match against the D.C.L.I., Rangoon in the IFA Shield, “Red Rose” wrote in “THE ENGLISHMAN” – ‘GOSTHA IMPREGNABLE AS CHINESE WALL’.
  
• Gostha Paul’s performance against Durhams in a Rovers Cup final was summed up by ‘THE TIMES OF INDIA’ as – ‘PAUL, THE FINEST BACK EVER PLAYED IN BOMBAY’. Gostha captained the Mohun Bagan Club from 1921 to 1926. He also led the Indian contingent in their first outing to a foreign land, Ceylon, in 1924. But Gostha refused to lead the IFA XI to South Africa in 1934, supporting the views of the Mahatma against apartheid.
  
• On 27^th April, 1962 Gostha became the first footballer to receive the ‘PADMA SHRI’ award from the then President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad. The Government of West Bengal have honoured this legendary-figure of Indian Football by erecting a 13 feet bronze-statue of him in front of the Akashbani Bhavan, Calcutta. The VIP Gallery of the Mohun Bagan Stadium has been named as the “Gostha Paul Stand”.
  
• Gostha Paul passed away on 8^th of April, 1976. Gostha and his vision can be best expressed in his own words: “In an era, when we (Indians) were humiliated and insulted in every step of life, a life of remorse, the football arena was the only one place, where we could fight them (the Britishers) incessantly. I didn’t fear them, but it was they who feared me”.
  
• He was an epitome of patriotism, dedication, devotion and discipline. He became an institution who taught us something more than the mere skills of Football. Rakhal Bhattacharya, an eminent journalist, remarked, “India has produced many footballers of quality, but only one Gostha Paul”.
  
• Text : Based on materials supplied by the Sponsors.
  

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Issued by Japan

Issued on Oct 20, 1974

Issued for : To celebrate the 29^th National Athletic (Autumn) Meeting held October 20-25, 1974 at the 55 places in Ibaragi Prefecture, a 10 yen commemorative postage stamp will be issued.

Design : Soccer Players and Sailboat

Colour : Multicolour

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 10 Yen

Stamp Size : 38.5 mm x 28 mm

Quantity Issued : 50,000,000 stamps

Printing Process : Photogravure

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