LookbyFranzKafka

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Music Festival in Aland…

Posted on 03:21 by Unknown

 

 

image image

A great many music events are arranged in Aland during the summer months. The Aland Post focuses on two of them in 2013 – Island in the Sun and Rockoff – with the issue of two action-packed and lyrical stamps.

Island in the Sun was first arranged in August 2008 on the small archipelago island of Jurmo in the municipality of Brando. Organizing the festival is a non-profit volunteer organisation working to promote a wider and better range of music life in Aland, especially in the archipelago. Lasting for two days in July, the festival has grown each year with a 2012 record of 800 visitors and more than 100 volunteers.

The Rockoff festival has been arranged in Mariehamn every summer since 1997. For 9 days at the end of July every year, Rockoff attracts up to 40 000 visitors, tourists and locals alike. Most of the artists performing come from Sweden and Finland but, during the course of years, world-class performers and local bands alike have met the crowd from the most popular stage in Aland.

Telegrams come to an end….

image

Telegram  service has gone into history now. Philatelists all over India celebrated the last day of Telegram on 14th July by sending telegrams to their dear ones.  I am pleased to share here a news clipping. Mr Timir Shah of Baroda Philatelic Society tells here about his wonderful collection of Telegrams. I thank my readers and friends who have sent telegrams to me on the last day.. My special thanks to Mr Prashant Pandya from Vadodara, N. Kalyani from New Delhi, Ambrish Kumar from Allahabad, Ashwani Dubey from Gorakhpur and Arvind Mullick from Jabalpur for the last day telegrams…

Feast for philatelists…

Vadodara: Sunday was the day which philatelists from across the state used to preserve the memories of country's oldest communication service - the telegram.

"I have organized all these telegrams as per the change that happened with them. From the time, the telegraph service was mentioned as post telegraph, to the day when it was sent under the Department of Telecommunication and BSNL Limited, I will be able to showcase all these telegrams," said Timir Shah, secretary of Baroda Philatelic Society. Shah has a collection of 70-odd telegrams, including the one dating back to 1919 during the British Raj.

image

Vadodara bids adieu to telegram Service

Prashant Rupera, TNN Jul 15, 2013, 03.31AM IST

VADODARA: As the clock struck five, city bid adieu to world's oldest communication service by sending 250 telegrams.

Before the 163-year-old telegram service - the harbinger of good and bad news for generations of Indians - turned dead on Sunday evening, the old and the new arrived at the four telegram offices of the city to send the last of the humble telegrams which they will preserve it forever.

At the central telegram office at Kothi, there was a constant flow of parents who took their kids with them to make them learn the nitty-gritty's of writing a telegram - in the age of SMS, emails and mobile phones even as telegraphists mourned the death of the iconic service that has faded into oblivion with time. BSNL, which is discontinuing the services, got the last telegram users photographed for their archives.

The last telegram that was sent from the city will reach chief minister Narendra Modi.

"Telegram seva na antim divas no antim telegram Bharat na bhavi vada pradhan Narendra Modi ne arpan (the last telegram of the last day of telegram service is dedicated to the future prime minister of India)," read the telegram that BJP leader Jigar Inamdar sent from Kothi office.

Before him was Kiran Mandvekar, who along with his kid, used the service to send warm wishes to his Bangalore-based brother for his birthday that falls on Monday.

"In 1980s, there was a time when I had to stand in long queues at Brahman Sabha Hall (from where the telegram office operated earlier) to get a chance to send a telegram. And if you didn't have a pen to write it, it was your bad luck," recollected Mandvekar.

It was in 1938 that Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the visionary ruler of erstwhile Baroda state, had started the telephone exchange office at Kothi from where the telegram office started functioning later.

Shauree Gaekwad, 15, and her brother Shaunak, 12, who were accompanied by their father - Samir - took up the opportunity to write their first and the last telegrams, which were addressed to their grandparents in Mumbai and Rajkot. Same was the case of Dhruv and Parv Shah, who accompanied their father - Snehal - just to wish their 'dada' and 'baa' via a telegram.

From the Fatehgunj telegram office, city's well-known emergency medical services (EMS) expert Subroto Das sent telegrams to his city-based parents and wife and his Mumbai-based son.

"I still remember the time when people would approach me showing a telegram with their leave applications. Telegram from a relative was the best way to demand a leave," said Das, a former administrator of Mayo Hospital. "It is an era that has ended," he said.

"Indeed," echoed B B Chauhan, who since last 25 years, was working as a telegraphist. "We used to send thousands of telegrams each day. As its popularity started fading, the numbers fell to 25 per day. It was only in the last few days that we have witnessed rush and that too because a city school organized the event to sent mass telegrams."

"There was a time when 70 telegraphists used to work in the city. Now, few of us have been left," said Chauhan's colleague Jayshree Shah, recollecting how in its heydays telegrams were sent for court matters, government jobs, military personnel, insurance and finance firms and even as alerts for prices of grapes.

New Special Cover

100 years of Mumbai Postal Co-Operative Society Ltd.

image

Mumbai - 11 July 2013 

A Special Cover was issued to mark 100 years of Mumbai Postal Co-Operative Society Ltd. on 11th July 2013 at Mumbai. The society was formed in 1914

Courtesy : Indian Philately Digest

Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Posted in Aland, Music, Special Cover, Telegrams | No comments
Newer Post Older Post Home
View mobile version

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • Barrel Mail..
          Date of Issue : 6 August 2013 A new stamp released by the Cocos (Keeling) Islands is dedicated to barrel mail. From around 1909 ...
  • Nepal - Israel Joint Issue …
      Hi  ! Here is the Nepal stamp of Nepal Israel Joint issue. Yesterday I published Israel stamp of this joint issue. It’s a wonderful...
  • A Christmas Carol..
        Hi ! Here is a beautiful set of stamps featuring Charles Dickens famous work “Christmas Carol”. The set recently issued by Ascensi...
  • Jacques Chaban-Delmas Bridge, Bordeaux
    The French Post issued a postage stamp featuring Jacques Chaban-Delmas Vertical-lift Bridge. It is EUROPE’S largest lift bridge,  open...
  • New stamp on Rainbow..
      Date of Issue : 7 June 2013 Hi ! Here is a beautiful stamp to be issued by San Marino Post on June 7. The beautiful stamp issue wi...
  • Bhubaneshwar Philatelic Exhibition 2013
      BHUPEX 2013 The District Level Philatelic Exhibition, BHUPEX-2013 organized by Bhubaneswar Postal Division from 25.03.2013 to 26.0...
  • 101 Years of First Air Mail ..
      It is exactly 101 years to the day today when India created history pioneering the world's first official airmail . Around 5 PM...
  • World Water Day - 22 March
      Clean water is the world’s most prestigious and rarest assets and essential need of everyone’s daily life. An average person in the wo...
  • 200th Birth Anniversary of Charles Dickens
      Date of Issue : 14 September 2012 Gibraltar Post has commemorated the bicentenary of the birth of Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 7 F...
  • Lighthouses on New Norwegian stamps…
      Date of Issue : 15 June 2012 Hi ! Here are the two most beautiful stamps with Lighthouses..The picture shown on these Norwegian s...

Categories

  • 0lympics (3)
  • 12.12.12 (12)
  • 2013 Chinese Year of Snake (1)
  • Air-craft (1)
  • Aland (3)
  • animals (3)
  • Architecture (2)
  • Argentina (1)
  • armenia (1)
  • Army Postal Sevice (1)
  • Art (9)
  • Articles (11)
  • Ascension Island (1)
  • auctions (3)
  • Australia (12)
  • Austria (4)
  • autograph (2)
  • automobiles (2)
  • award (2)
  • awards (1)
  • Azerbaijan (2)
  • Belarus (1)
  • Belgium (2)
  • Bhutan (1)
  • Biodiversity (3)
  • birds (22)
  • Blogs (4)
  • Blogs and Websites (4)
  • Book review (4)
  • Books (13)
  • Books and Magazines (5)
  • Brasil (3)
  • Brasiliana 2013 (1)
  • bridges (4)
  • Buddhism (6)
  • Bulgaria (1)
  • Butterflies (2)
  • Campaign (2)
  • Canada (10)
  • cars (1)
  • cartoons (6)
  • Cats (2)
  • Chess (1)
  • Children (15)
  • China (4)
  • Christmas (14)
  • Christmas 2012 (17)
  • Christmas Island (2)
  • Cinema (5)
  • Circus (1)
  • Club News (22)
  • Coin Exhibition (1)
  • coins (6)
  • Comics (2)
  • Communication (4)
  • complaints (1)
  • Conferences and Summits (1)
  • Contests (1)
  • costumes (2)
  • cricket (1)
  • Croatia (4)
  • Cuisine (4)
  • Culture (19)
  • Czech Repub. (2)
  • Dances (2)
  • Definitive Stamps (1)
  • Denmark (3)
  • Dinosaurs (1)
  • Disaster (2)
  • Discussion (2)
  • Easter (1)
  • Education (7)
  • Energy (4)
  • Environment (13)
  • Error (1)
  • Errors and Varieties (1)
  • esperanto (1)
  • Estonia (2)
  • Europa (12)
  • Europa 2012 (1)
  • Europa 2013 (9)
  • Events (1)
  • Exhibits (1)
  • Extraordinary stamps (2)
  • farming (1)
  • Faroe island (1)
  • Fashion (1)
  • Fauna (4)
  • FDC's of Miniature sheets (1)
  • FDC's of Set of Stamps (1)
  • FDCs (5)
  • Festival (29)
  • Festivals of India (19)
  • Films (6)
  • Finland (7)
  • Fisheries (1)
  • Flags (11)
  • Flora (16)
  • Flowers (16)
  • folklores (1)
  • Food (1)
  • Football (3)
  • Forest (2)
  • France (8)
  • Freedom fighters (4)
  • Fruits (1)
  • Games (2)
  • Gandhi (14)
  • ganesh Chaturthi (1)
  • gastronomy (4)
  • Germany (27)
  • Gibraltar (4)
  • Greece (1)
  • Greenland (2)
  • Greetings (18)
  • Handicraft (2)
  • health (8)
  • hobbies (2)
  • Hong Kong (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Hungary (4)
  • Iceland (3)
  • India (1)
  • India;Errors and Varieties (1)
  • Indian Stamps (15)
  • Indian Stamps 2012 (14)
  • Indian Stamps 2013 (25)
  • Indian theme on foreign stamps (11)
  • Indin Stamps 2013 (5)
  • INPEX 2013 (14)
  • Insects (2)
  • Institutes (3)
  • Institutes and Universities (3)
  • International Philatelic Exhibitions (4)
  • International stamp exhibitions (7)
  • International Women's Day (2)
  • Interview (1)
  • Ireland (4)
  • Isle of Man (2)
  • Israel (11)
  • Italy (7)
  • Jainism (4)
  • Japan (2)
  • Jersey (2)
  • jewellery (1)
  • Joint Issue (10)
  • Korea (3)
  • Latvia (4)
  • Light Houses (6)
  • Literature (15)
  • Locomotives (2)
  • London 2012 Olympics (3)
  • Love (4)
  • Lunar New Year (2)
  • Lunar New Year of Snake (3)
  • Luxembourg (2)
  • magazines (2)
  • magazinex (1)
  • Mail Service (3)
  • Malaysia (7)
  • Mathematics (1)
  • Max Cards (3)
  • Medical (10)
  • meter cancellations (2)
  • Miniature Sheets of India (4)
  • Miscellaneous (3)
  • Monaco (6)
  • Monuments (1)
  • Motor bikes (1)
  • Music (18)
  • My covers (39)
  • My Stamp (4)
  • Mythiology (2)
  • National Park (6)
  • Nature (8)
  • Nepal (3)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • New Year (2)
  • New Zealand (7)
  • News (26)
  • News from Non Philatelic World (1)
  • News; (1)
  • News; Members (1)
  • Norway (4)
  • Numismatics (2)
  • Olympic Games (2)
  • paintings (3)
  • Papua New Guinea (1)
  • permanent cancellations (4)
  • Personalities (19)
  • personalized stamps (1)
  • Pets (3)
  • Philatelic Books (11)
  • Philatelic Exhibits (1)
  • Philatelic Journals (9)
  • Philatelic Literature (8)
  • Philatelic Societies (8)
  • Philatelists' Forum (1)
  • Philately (3)
  • Philippines (5)
  • Pictorial Cancellations (15)
  • Picture Postcards (4)
  • Plants (7)
  • Plants and Trees (5)
  • Poets (4)
  • Poland (20)
  • Portugal (1)
  • Post Cards (1)
  • Post office (6)
  • Postal History (13)
  • Postal receipts; (2)
  • Postal service (5)
  • Postal Stationery (1)
  • Press Clippings (7)
  • Profession (1)
  • publication (1)
  • publicity (1)
  • Quiz (1)
  • Railways (4)
  • Rainbow (13)
  • Rainbow Stamp News (12)
  • Religion (21)
  • Republic Day (1)
  • Romania (2)
  • Rose (1)
  • Royal Wedding (2)
  • Russia (5)
  • San Marino (5)
  • Schools (4)
  • Science (6)
  • Scouting (2)
  • Sea (2)
  • Sepac (1)
  • SHARJAH 2012 (7)
  • ships (4)
  • Singapore (3)
  • Slovenia (2)
  • Snakes (1)
  • Soccer (1)
  • South Africa (2)
  • Space (5)
  • spain (5)
  • Special Cancellation (9)
  • Special Cover (70)
  • Special Days (29)
  • Special Events (4)
  • Special Year (5)
  • Sports (15)
  • Sri Lanka (5)
  • Stamp Booklet (6)
  • stamp exchange (1)
  • Stamp Exhibitions (79)
  • Stamp Exhibitions; (2)
  • Stamp Fairs (4)
  • Stamp Magazine (2)
  • Sweden (2)
  • Switzerland (4)
  • Tagore (4)
  • Taiwan (4)
  • Tea Coffee Beverages (1)
  • Telegrams (12)
  • Thailand (3)
  • Theatre (3)
  • Tourism (38)
  • Train (1)
  • Transport (1)
  • trees (1)
  • Turkey (2)
  • Tv shows (1)
  • U.K. (1)
  • UAE (7)
  • UK (9)
  • Ukraine (2)
  • UNESCO (4)
  • unique stamps (6)
  • United Nations (2)
  • UNPA (3)
  • USA (13)
  • Valentine's Day (4)
  • Vietnam (1)
  • Views and Opinions (3)
  • voyages (1)
  • War (1)
  • Wildlife (28)
  • Winter Sports (3)
  • Women (3)
  • World Environment Day (1)
  • World Heritage Sites (5)
  • world organizations (1)
  • World Philatelic Exhibitions (10)
  • World Post Day (2)
  • World Tourism Day (1)

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2013 (342)
    • ►  August (14)
    • ▼  July (54)
      • The 200th Anniversary of the Guernsey Press and Star
      • Club News…
      • Birth of Prince George VII
      • New stamps on pets and birds
      • New Special Cover..
      • Andy Murray on new British stamps
      • New Stamps from USPS..
      • Birth of a Prince stamp from Australia
      • Tributes to Kargil War Heroes…
      • Wedding Customs…
      • New Stamps from Poland
      • New Permanent Pictorial Cancellation..
      • Marianne –The symbol of France…
      • New Europa Stamps..
      • New Special Covers..
      • Sacred Hermitage of Camaldoli
      • Castles of Croatia
      • 100 Years of Ausserfernbahn Train
      • Controversial Stamp from France..
      • Painting and Poetry on New Chinese stamps…
      • Special Cover : Farewell to Telegrams
      • New stamps from Ukraine
      • New stamps on Musical Instruments
      • Music Festival in Aland…
      • Telegram goes into history..
      • Exhibition on Telegrams..
      • Telegram shared smiles and tears….
      • End of Telegram era
      • The end of an era: India bids the telegram farewell
      • Stamp on Puppet Theatre…
      • Animals in the zoo….
      • Stamps on Butterflies from Royal Mail…
      • Shawls from Russia…
      • The last telegram from Kullu….
      • My Recent Covers
      • Classic Travel Posters of New Zealand …
      • New Special Cover…
      • Medical Theme on stamps…
      • 50 Years of Woman’s First Flight to Space
      • New stamps from Monaco..
      • Terror Attack on World Heritage Monument
      • Club News..
      • New stamps from USA and Canada..
      • Newspaper Headlines on stamps…
      • World Fencing Championship
      • World’s first Thermo - sensitive stamps…
      • New stamp from India…
      • Chinese stamp sold for $890,000
      • Owls on new Romanian stamps..
      • Post offices of Shimla
      • Underwater Post offices around the world..
      • My recent cover…
      • The African Fish Eagle
      • Olympic Gold Postbox tour of Oxford Postman..
    • ►  June (57)
    • ►  May (51)
    • ►  April (39)
    • ►  March (43)
    • ►  February (39)
    • ►  January (45)
  • ►  2012 (158)
    • ►  December (43)
    • ►  November (33)
    • ►  October (43)
    • ►  September (37)
    • ►  August (2)
Powered by Blogger.

About Me

Unknown
View my complete profile