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Chronicling Chennai’s dwindling dalliance with letters and post boxes

Chronicling Chennai’s dwindling dalliance with letters and post boxes

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A letter box in RA Puram | Photo Credit: B Velankanni Raj The imperturbable faces of the crooked red letter boxes planted all over Chennai are like epithets the city has forgotten to use. The ones that remain, project the presence of an era that broods in its absences.   For a generation that has […]

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In Chennai, philatelist releases a book on colonial-era stamps and their evolution

In Chennai, philatelist releases a book on colonial-era stamps and their evolution

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Stamps from the princely state of Orchha | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “Stamps are the windows to the world,” says Rolands Nelson, philatelist and retired civil engineer. When asked how many stamps he has in his collection, he approximates the number to be around a lakh. Nelson’s book, Princely States of India: a Philatelic Overview, […]

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