Tomorrow the weeklong world philatelic exhibition INDIPEX 2011 will draw a conclusion. I feel fortunate to have visited it for 2 hours at noon without lunch.
It's like a musium and a Mela or fair. You can study each stamp among hundreds of thousands of them dating back to 100 years ago. You can also shop various stamps from around 100 countries and even have your INDIPEX Passports sealed with unique stamps of participating countries. To be frank I feel like being a stamp collector- I bought 900 Rupees of various Indian stamps including the one set released during the exhibition-Legenary Heroins of India. It helps you remember the six legendary actresses of Indian cinema-- Meena Kumari, Nutan, Kanan Devi,Devika Rani, Leela Naidu and Savitri. Of course I also bought 10 sets of stamps featuring lord Buddha released in 2007 to mark the 2550 years of Mahaparinirvana of the Buddha, 30 Ruppees each with 5 different stamps on each set. I also got several sets released during India's Children's Day in November last year. It's for my daughter. She left India yesterday and has arrived home in Beijing when I started for Pragati Maidan at noon. By the way it's the sixth time that the exhibition is held in India.
