SPECIAL INDIAN STAMPS
Two Issued To Honour Poet
Two postage stamps have been issued by the Indian Post and Telegraph Department in honour of Kalidasa, the great Sanskrit poet. The stamps were issued on June 22, to correspond with the first day of Asadha, the day on which the Yaksha of the Megadoota, while sojourning in Ramagiri, saw a cloud and appealed 'to it to carry his message to his beloved in Alaka on Mount Kailash.
Scenes from two of Kalidasa’s great works, the Maghadoota and the Shakuntala, are illustrated on the stamps. The scene from Shakuntala is based on a painting done in 1878 by Raja Ravi Varma, celebrated for his portrayals of figures and scenes from classical and mythological life and lore. The scene from Meghaddota is based on a painting by Professor Radha Charah Bagchi of Kala
Bhavan, Santiniketan. The designs of the stamps include verses out of the two works that they seek to represent
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 9
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