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A black figure beating a large drum with both arms raised, on a green and white ground, beside a round seal with the figure 50 and the letters “IPTA” in Hindi and English, on a ₹2 stamp.
Indian People’s Theatre Association
India Post issued this ₹2 stamp on 25 May 1994, fifty-one years to the day after the Indian People’s Theatre Association was formed at a conference in Bombay in 1943, though the seal on the stamp marks its fiftieth year. It grew out of the freedom movement and took plays and songs to ordinary people, among them the song “Bhookha Hai Bengal”, on the Bengal famine. India Post’s folder credits Homi Bhabha with the name, names Sarojini Naidu as its first president and says that 500 units soon sprang up around the country.
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