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On the Stamp
Sunrise over the Cellular Jail at Port Blair, the “Kala Pani” where revolutionaries of the freedom struggle, among them V. D. Savarkar, Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Ullaskar Dutt, were held from the start of the penal settlement in 1858. The jail is now a national memorial.
One of three stamps on the sheet India Post issued on 30 December 2018 for the 75th anniversary of the first hoisting of the Tricolour at Port Blair: on 30 December 1943 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose raised the flag at the Gymkhana Ground, on the first Indian territory freed from British rule. The stamps were designed by Sankha Samanta, with text by Pallab Bose; 500,710 of each were printed by wet offset at the India Security Press, Nashik.
