These rare and new stamps celebrate the greatest sports show on Earth
The Hindu
An ongoing virtual philately exhibition, Olymphila India 2021, celebrates the Tokyo Olympics through various treasured postage stamps of history
Did you know that Greece issued a set of 12 stamps when the first Modern Olympics was held at Athens, in 1896? The first-ever sports and Olympic stamps realised 400,000 drachmas (₹10,3923) to fund the games. In India, the current Games is being celebrated with a virtual philatelic exhibition, Olymphila India 2021, which opened on July 23. Jagannath Mani, is a senior philatelist and coordinator of the event. “We have been organising philatelic exhibitions purely for the love and the spirit of Olympics and philately. This time we had to organise a virtual one.”More Related News