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On the Stamp
A cartoon of a man waving his arms among piles of paper, watched by two figures with animal heads, over a caption beginning “Shankar has been awarded Padma Vibhushan”, with the words “K. Shankar Pillai – Cartoons” in Hindi and English, on a ₹4 stamp.
Shankar Awarded Padma Vibhushan
India Post issued two stamps on 31 July 1991, ₹4 and ₹6.50, on the birthday of the cartoonist K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989), known simply as Shankar. He founded Shankar’s Weekly in 1948, set up the Children’s Book Trust in 1957 and Shankar’s International Dolls Museum in 1965, and received the Padma Vibhushan in 1976. This stamp reproduces a cartoon on that award, in which Shankar makes fun of himself. Its companion is “The Big Show”. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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