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The carved southern gopuram of the Madurai temple beside the cables and towers of the second Hooghly bridge at Calcutta, with the Association’s name in Hindi and English, on a ₹2 stamp.
Madurai and the Hooghly Bridge
India Post issued two ₹2 stamps on 1 March 1992, printed side by side, for the 14th Congress of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, held in New Delhi from 1 to 6 March. The Association was founded in 1929 and has its seat in Zurich. The Congress took the theme “Civilization through Civil Engineering”, and each stamp pairs an old Indian structure with a modern one. This one sets the seventeenth-century gopuram at Madurai, 48.8 metres of carved granite, beside the second Hooghly bridge, now called Vidyasagar Setu, the first cable-stayed bridge of its size in India. The bridge was commissioned on 10 October 1992, a few months after the stamp.
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