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A carved stone figure of a woman fresh from bathing, from Sanghol, on a deep red ground, with the words “Festival of India” and “Sadyah-Snata, Sanghol” in Hindi and English, on a ₹6.50 stamp.
The Festival of India in the USSR
India Post issued this ₹6.50 stamp on 3 July 1987, the day the festival opened. It was the largest of the Festivals of India, following those in Britain, the United States and France. Its programme had 20 exhibitions, over 1,700 performing artists, 80 feature films and 17 seminars, across more than 50 cities in the Soviet Union.
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