Issued by India

Issued on Aug 30, 2019

Issued for : Department of Posts is pleased to issue Commemorative Postage Stamps to acknowledge the contribution made by these Master Healers of AYUSH of modern era.

Credits :
Stamp/FDC/Brochure/Cancellation Cachet : Based on inputs received from proponent, developed by Smt. Alka Sharma

Type : Sheetlet, Mint Condition

Colour : Multi Colour

Denomination : 500 Paise

Stamps Printed : 300000

Mix sheets Printed : 60280

Printing Process : Wet Offset

Printer : India Security Press, Nashik

Name : Jagannatha Ganesa Gune

Born on 30 Aug, 1883 at Dabhoi, Gujarat, India

Died on 18 Apr, 1966 at Lonavala, Maharashtra, India

About : 

• AYUSH systems of healthcare form the foundation of India’s Medical Heritage. These systems are not merely sciences of disease and drug, but have their conceptual spheres touching every aspect of life. Path-finding visionaries have appeared in each of the different streams of AYUSH systems at different times in history and made valuable contributions to the growth and development of respective practices.
• Department of Posts is bringing out Commemorative Postage Stamps on 12 such Master Healers from different streams of AYUSH systems.
  • Swami Kuvalayananda : A pioneer in scientific approach to Yoga, Swami Ji was instrumental in making it more acceptable to the modern world through his research work on Yoga techniques. He published the first journal devoted to scientific investigation into yoga, namely Yoga Mimamsa. His work established the positive impact of Asana, Shatkarma, Bandhas and Pranayama on humans. Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute founded by him in 1924 continues to work for the upliftment of society through the application of Yoga in various spheres of life.
• Text : Based on information received from the proponent.

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Issued by India

Issued on Aug 9, 1998

Issued for : The Department of Posts is happy to issue a stamp in the honour of Acharya Shivpujan Sahai.

Credits :
Stamp & FDC : Based on the material supplied by Acharya Shivpujan Sahai Memorial Trust.
Cancellation : Alka Sharma

Type : First Day Cover

Colour : Single Colour

Denomination : 200 Paise

Overall size : 3.91 x 2.90 Cms.

Printing size : 3.55 x 2.54 Cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Paper : Imported un w/m Adhesive Gravure Coated Stamp Paper in reels 47 cms.

Stamps Printed : 0.4 Million

Number per issue sheet : 35

Printing Process : Photogravure

Printer : India Security Press, Nashik

Name : Bholanath

Born on Aug 9, 1893 at Unvans, Bhojpur district, Bihar, British India

Died on Jan 21, 1963 at Patna, Bihar, India

About : 

• A pioneer of renaissance in Hindi Literature, Acharya Shivpujan Sahai was born on August 9, 1893 at Unwans, a village in Buxar District of Bihar. He came from a middle class family with some landed property.
• He received his early schooling in the village pathshala and matriculated from Kayastha Jubilee Academy, Arrah in 1912. Under the influence of his brother-in-law, a poet of Brajbhasha, Shivpujan Sahai, began his long and impressive association with poetry and journalism, an association that was to prove immensely beneficial and enriching. Pt. Ishwari Prasad Sharma, dramatist and journalist, and Surya Kant Tripathi Nirala and Jaishankar Prasad, two great Hindi poets influenced him deeply. Other notable influences were Bal Gangadhar Tilak‘s Geeta Rahasya and the political philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.
• Shivpujan Sahai made his greatest contribution to the nationalist movement between 1921 and 1947. He supported the nationalist programme of the Congress and encouraged self confidence among the people. He was liberal in social matters, deprecating the seclusion of women and advocating female education and remarriage of young widows. However, he opposed the introduction of western education in India, advocating instead a national education with a grounding in Vedic and Puranic history of India.
• A pioneer of Hindi literary journalism in India, Shivpujan Sahai edited and published numerous Hindi journals like ‘Marwari Sudhar‘, ‘Samanwaya‘, ‘Adarsh‘, ‘Matwala‘, etc. As an eminent Hindi story writer, novelist and biographer, he wrote about 400 short stories, 67 biographies and over 150 literary articles. He became so famous as editor of Hindi language that most of the Hindi writers of the time right from Nirala, Prasad and Premchand to upcoming writers got their works edited by him. His novel ‘Dehati Dunia‘ is acclaimed as the first regional novel in Hindi. Some of his other prominent publications were : Bhisma, Arjuna, Maa Ke Sapoot, Adarsh Parichay, etc. He was a nationalist and reformist writer, criticising the British Government as well as the social evils like the dowry system, the parda, etc. His clever allegories flayed the British Raj without even giving it any legal pretext to hit back.
• During the decade 1939-49 when he was a Lecturer in Hindi in the Rajendra College, Chapra, he presided over the seventeenth session of the Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan (1941) and later over the All India Hindi Sahitya Sammelan (1944). He also served as the Director of the Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parishad from 1950 to 1959. He was honoured several times for his literary achievements and awarded the “Padma Bhushan“ in 1960.
• Acharya Shivpujan Sahai was a pioneer of Hindi literary journalism, the last of the prose stylists of the Dwivedi age and a formulator of plans of a theatre movement, literary memorials and specialised museums of classified research materials for a lingua Indica. Paying tribute to his epoch-making service to the cause of Hindi, Dr. Rajendra Prasad said, ‘Service to Hindi is in itself a great national service. Acharya Shivji was dedicated to a silent service to Hindi‘. He passed away on January 21, 1963.

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Issued by India

Issued on Jul 16, 1998

Issued for : The Department of Posts is happy to issue a commemorative stamp on Aruna Asaf Ali.

Credits :
Stamp : Sankha Samanta
FDC & Cancellation : Alka Sharma

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Colour : Single Colour

Denomination : 300 Paise

Overall Size : 3.91 x 2.90 Cms.

Printing Size : 3.91 x 2.90 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 : 35

Printing Process : Photogravure

Printer : India Security Press, Nashik

Name : Aruna Ganguly

Born on Jul 16, 1909 at Kalka, Punjab, British India

Died on Jul 29, 1996 at New Delhi, India

About : 

• Aruna Asaf Ali was born in 1909 at Kalka in Haryana, in a Bengali family of distinguished Brahmo-samaj lineage. She married Asaf Ali, a prominent lawyer of Delhi against convention. Very active in the National struggle for independence, she participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930’s and went to jail. In 1941, when Gandhiji started individual satyagraha against British war effort, she courted arrest.
• The Quit India Movement, 1942, was a turning point in her life. Following the arrest of all prominent Congress leaders, Aruna went underground and sought to build up an underground centre to guide the movement. She toured Calcutta, Bombay and Delhi evading police and made heroic efforts to re-group the forces after the collapse of the movement in 1943. During this period she became a symbol of spirit of the youth of the country. She remained underground till 1946, when the warrant of arrest against her was withdrawn.
• Aruna was elected President of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee in 1947. However, in 1948 she joined the Socialist group and took an active interest in the trade union movement. In 1955 this group merged with Communist Party of India and she became a member of its Central Committee and a Vice President of the All India Trade Union Congress. In 1958 she left the Communist Party of India and was elected Delhi‘s first Mayor. She re-joined the Congress party in 1964 but ceased to play any active part in politics.
• Aruna Asaf Ali, selfless, sensitive and emotional, charming in her manners, radical in her views, belonged to the heroic age of India’s freedom movement. She could not adjust herself with political realities when that heroic age was over and finally chose to live in retirement in New Delhi, till her death on 29^th July, 1996. She was awarded the Lenin prize for peace in 1975 and the Jawahar Lal Nehru award for International understanding for 1991.

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Issued by India

Issued on Jan 28, 1997

Issued for : The Department of Post is happy to issue a stamp in honour of this international Cuban hero.

Credits : Attache ‘LAC’ Ministry of External Affairs.

Type : First Day Cover

Colour : Two Colour

Denomination : 1100 Paise

Overall size : 3.91 x 2.90 Cms.

Printing size : 3.55 x 2.54 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 : 0.7 Million

Number per issue sheet : 35

Printing Process : Photogravure

Printer : India Security Press, Nasik

Name : José Julián Martí Pérez

Born on Jan 28, 1853 at Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba

Died on May 19, 1895 at near the confluence of the rivers Contramaestre and Cauto, Cuba

About : 

• Jose Marti was born in a modest home in Cuba on January 28, 1853. He dedicated his life to the cause of liberation of Cuba from the domination of the Spanish Empire. He began to write at a very early age and his revolutionary ideas moulded the thoughts of generations of his people. Fidel Castro aptly called him the intellectual author of the Cuban Revolution.
• At the tender age of 17 he was imprisoned in very difficult conditions and wrote “The Political Prisoner in Cuba”, a very thought provoking condemnation of colonisers.
• In 1892 he founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party with the avowed objective, “to attain absolute independence of the Isle of Cuba and to foster and help the independence of Puerto Rico.” The same year he brought out the newspaper ‘Patria’.
• On the eve of his historic death Jose Marti expressed to his friend Manuel Mercado that independence was the driving force in his life. He has promoted through his multiple works a number of economic measures that range from redistribution of land to installation of an economic regime based upon small land holdings. He fought to eradicate all discrimination based on the colour, creed, region etc.
• Perhaps, the most poignant tribute to Jose Marti comes from the pen of Nicolas Gullien:–No, think not that his voice is a whisper
  Or his hands like mere shadows
  Or that his look is like a shivering dewdrop
  on a rose petal.
  His voice and hands
  Have the power to crush rock and iron.
  His burning eyes can penetrate the darkest woods.
  Touch him – you will feel the burning fire.
  Take his hand – you will realise
  That all of Cuba fits in it
  Like a bird taking shelter from the storm.
  Look at his eyes – and you will be blinded by their fire.
  But follow his eyes in the dark of night,
  For his brilliance will light the way.

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Issued by United States of America

Issued on Sep 18, 1976

Design : The U.S. 13¢ stamp commemorating Ochs was issued eight decades after his acquisition of the Times. The design by Bradbury Thompson of Riverside, Connecticut, is based on a portrait of Ochs by S. J. Wolff. The publisher’s name is in Times-style type. First day ceremonies for the Ochs commemorative were held in New York City where 80 years earlier Ochs had taken controlling ownership of the New York Times.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 13 cents

Name : Adolph Simon Ochs

Born on Mar 12, 1858 at Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Died on Apr 8, 1935 at Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

About : 

• “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” – the famous slogans of The New York Times, helps to demonstrate the astonishing influence of one man on one of the world’s most influential media.
• Adolph Simon Ochs was born March 12, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His Jewish parents had immigrated to the United States from Bavaria, southern Germany. In the year of the U.S. Civil War’s end, 1865, the Ochs family settled in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Adolph began his great newspaper career by delivering papers. At age 11 he became an office boy and at 14 a printer’s devil on the Knoxville Chronicle. At 17 he was a compositor for the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal. Two years later he helped establish the Chattanooga Dispatch. When only 20 he took over the decrepit Chattanooga Times for $250 and soon built it into one of the South’s leading journals.
• At age 38 Ochs acquired control of The New York Times, which in its 45^th year was faltering. His journalistic principles and publishing management raised the Times daily circulation from 9,000 to 466,000. In 1901 he bought one Philadelphia paper and merged it with another, founded the Southern Associated Press, and served 35 years as a director of the Associated Press.
• Ochs’ high standards for the Times won national and, ultimately, worldwide respect. In competition with journals that indulged in sensationalism, Ochs dedicated his newspaper to trustworthiness and thoroughness. He also introduced innovations, including a book review supplement and rotogravure pictures, and set high standards for acceptance of advertising in the Times.
• The Ochs dedication to excellence brought honor as well as financial success to his expanding publishing enterprise. In 1918 the Times was awarded the first Pulitzer gold medal in journalism for meritorious public service.

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