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On the Stamp
A child’s painting of India: a patterned elephant on the left and, on the right, a richly dressed figure seated in a palace with attendants, with the words “Indo-Soviet Issue” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
A Soviet Child’s India
India Post issued two stamps on 16 August 1990, ₹1 and ₹6.50, as a joint venture with the Soviet Union. Both are first-prize designs from a competition held in the second half of 1989 among children under seventeen: Indian children drew a Russian subject, and Soviet children an Indian one. This picture of life in India is the winning Soviet entry. India Post’s folder traces the links between the two peoples back to ancient trade, to the Buddhist stupas, statues and paintings excavated in Soviet Central Asia, and to the Russian traveller Afanasy Nikitin, who came to India in the fifteenth century and left a record of his journey.
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