Stamps on Carnatic Music Figures

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 27 Aug 2008, 14:15

There is a very nice Sruti column where different musicians who have been awarded stamps in their honour by the Postal Department, are profiled. This month Pt. Omkarnath Thakur was the subject of the column. As far as I can tell, the only Carnatic music figures in this list are [in no particular order]:

Annamacharya, Purandaradasa, Tyagaraja, Muthusvami Dikshitar, Syama Sastri, Dvaram V. Naidu, Svati Tirunal, Ariyakudi, MS Subbulakshmi, Musiri.

Am I missing anyone?

As an aside, I recently acquired the Tyagaraja, Dikshitar and Syama Sastri stamps and First Day Covers. They are really beautiful, especially the covers. The Tyagaraja one has an etching of his samadhi, Dikshitar's has an etching of the maNTapam over his birth place and the SS one has a painting of three tamburas together. Very nicely done with an appreciation for the contributions of these great composers.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 27 Aug 2008, 20:04

Prashant, nice to know that you hve acquired these stamps and first day covers; do you thing they can be scanned and the photos posted here?
Thanks.

shankarabharanam · Post by **shankarabharanam** » 27 Aug 2008, 20:48

Prashant i think even SSIs stamp was unveiled recently...

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 28 Aug 2008, 09:16

Punarvasu wrote:Prashant, nice to know that you hve acquired these stamps and first day covers; do you thing they can be scanned and the photos posted here?
Thanks.

Of course! I will do so shortly.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 28 Aug 2008, 09:17

shankarabharanam wrote:Prashant i think even SSIs stamp was unveiled recently...

I don't think so, shankarabharanam. A Google search yieded nothing and the Indian Post website has no mention of a stamp on Sri SSI. He definitely deserves one!!!

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 28 Aug 2008, 10:52

I found mine on ebay.in. You could try there.

shankarabharanam · Post by **shankarabharanam** » 28 Aug 2008, 10:57

http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/news/200807 ... index.html

Here is the link..

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 28 Aug 2008, 11:34

Aha! Nice - thanks shankarabharanam

Not to nitpick, but that's a special cover and there is no stamp yet. A special cover has been released on Sri Pazhani Subrahmanya Pillai also recently.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 28 Aug 2008, 23:08

http://rasikas.org/chembai/chembaibuddha.html

An old thread - http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=120