WOMEN & INDIAN PHILATELY
The hobby of stamp collecting in India is more than hundred years old, and it is confined mostly amongst males, but unfortunately females involvement is very negligible. In post independence India, early sixties to eighties, there were hundreds of philatelic societies, in West Bengal alone there were more than 34 philatelic clubs. But none of the clubs ever tried to motivate female in this hobby.
Since 1954 our department of post almost periodically organizing philatelic exhibitions- why probably they don't know themselves. Whether for the sale promotion of their products or to promote some those who will make a position for themselves, both in India as well as overseas, but they will be do nothing for the department. They will always make a plan to involve the department to arginase exhibitions, either state, national or international levels which will serve only their interest. As soon as the Department will announce any programme for exhibition, there will be rat-race among them, who will be the jury, commissioner or hold any portfolios. But if you ask them to go to village or district to organize small exhibitions or workshop, only one answer you will hear from them- no time ( waquath kanha hai). Our department spending money in philately without any positive purpose.
We are now at e-mail age- it is a high time for our department to pay attention to promote sales of philatelic products.
There are two types of stamp buyers- one those who will write letters, their number is decreasing due to e-mail and the second one is the collectors who will never write letters. In fact e-mail is blessing in disguise.A competition is gpoing on amongst the posts office of other countries of the world- how to attrace the collectors- they are issuing inn0ovetative beautility materials, as they know that they will have to render no service to the buyers of these materials at all- because they are not letter writer, they are collectors.
How to promote philately- I have personally experimented in North Bengal, with the help of Mr. John Samuel, PMG Siliguri. When I first visited Sikkim- there were no collectors - I have organized workshop ( not seminar) with school students, teachers and parents and separately with Postal staff ( in future they will visit schools- how they will motivate the students and teachers, parents- what type of questions they may face and what their answers should be) . Because a student cannot be a instant buyer-they cannot open a PD account, unless they are being paid by their parents was successful in my experiment- within three years a philatelic bureau was opened at Siliguri and surprisingly, 70 collectors participated in Stampshow, Kolkata from North Bengal and in Inpex-08 Chennai two were allotted and one awarded.
At the moment female population in India is about 52 cores and out of these huge population if our Department could motivate just 1% of these population the sale proceeds will be a substantial amount.
It is a great lamentation that in this vast country only 10-15 women are known to me who collects stamps and two of them are intentionally famous
.
However, two ladies ( mother) have come out with a positive and pragmatic outlook to promote stamp collecting . One of them is Sangita Deogawanka, wife of Madhukar. At least one of the collectors of India- Madhukar is successful to make his life partner a philatelic partner also. Sangita is having one book “Stamp Collecting” to her credit. She is regular contributors of articles in various magazines. She is a very serious collector of Indian states, postal communication system etc.
There is a proverb charity begins at home-she studied child psychology- she involved her 6 years old daughter in stamp collecting- with odd size and shape of stamps which a child of her age like most.
The other lady is Jeevan Jyoti of Kanpur, now at Simla. She did not squander her adolescent- she got involved in philately from early age and had long association with B.J.Kumar. Acquired knowledge in philatelic journalism, she was the asst. editor of U-Phil Times.
We should encourage our wives and mothers in this hobby for two basic reasons: 1. Philately will be widen
, number of collectors will increase, more collectors more sales of stamps. (2). If our family members are properly educated in this subjects, so bequeathal collection could not be sold at throw away prices,
Women involvement will change the demography of Indian philately.
WOMEN & INDIAN PHILATELY
The hobby of stamp collecting in India is more than hundred years old, and it is confined mostly amongst males, but unfortunately females involvement is very negligible. In post independence India, early sixties to eighties, there were hundreds of philatelic societies, in West Bengal alone there were more than 34 philatelic clubs. But none of the clubs ever tried to motivate female in this hobby.
Since 1954 our department of post almost periodically organizing philatelic exhibitions- why probably they don't know themselves. Whether for the sale promotion of their products or to promote some those who will make a position for themselves, both in India as well as overseas, but they will be do nothing for the department. They will always make a plan to involve the department to arginase exhibitions, either state, national or international levels which will serve only their interest. As soon as the Department will announce any programme for exhibition, there will be rat-race among them, who will be the jury, commissioner or hold any portfolios. But if you ask them to go to village or district to organize small exhibitions or workshop, only one answer you will hear from them- no time ( waquath kanha hai). Our department spending money in philately without any positive purpose.
We are now at e-mail age- it is a high time for our department to pay attention to promote sales of philatelic products.
There are two types of stamp buyers- one those who will write letters, their number is decreasing due to e-mail and the second one is the collectors who will never write letters. In fact e-mail is blessing in disguise.A competition is gpoing on amongst the posts office of other countries of the world- how to attrace the collectors- they are issuing inn0ovetative beautility materials, as they know that they will have to render no service to the buyers of these materials at all- because they are not letter writer, they are collectors.
How to promote philately- I have personally experimented in North Bengal, with the help of Mr. John Samuel, PMG Siliguri. When I first visited Sikkim- there were no collectors - I have organized workshop ( not seminar) with school students, teachers and parents and separately with Postal staff ( in future they will visit schools- how they will motivate the students and teachers, parents- what type of questions they may face and what their answers should be) . Because a student cannot be a instant buyer-they cannot open a PD account, unless they are being paid by their parents was successful in my experiment- within three years a philatelic bureau was opened at Siliguri and surprisingly, 70 collectors participated in Stampshow, Kolkata from North Bengal and in Inpex-08 Chennai two were allotted and one awarded.
At the moment female population in India is about 52 cores and out of these huge population if our Department could motivate just 1% of these population the sale proceeds will be a substantial amount.
It is a great lamentation that in this vast country only 10-15 women are known to me who collects stamps and two of them are intentionally famous
.
However, two ladies ( mother) have come out with a positive and pragmatic outlook to promote stamp collecting . One of them is Sangeeta Deogawanka, wife of Madhukar. At least one of the collectors of India- Madhukar is successful to make his life partner a philatelic partner also. Sangeeta is having one book “Stamp Collecting” to her credit. She is regular contributors of articles in various magazines. She is a very serious collector of Indian states, postal communication system etc.
There is a proverb charity begins at home-she studied child psychology- she involved her 6 years old daughter in stamp collecting- with odd size and shape of stamps which a child of her age like most.
The other lady is Jeevan Jyoti of Kanpur, now at Simla. She did not squander her adolescent- she got involved in philately from early age and had long association with B.J.Kumar. Acquired knowledge in philatelic journalism, she was the asst. editor of U-Phil Times.
We should encourage our wives and mothers in this hobby for two basic reasons: 1. Philately will be widen
, number of collectors will increase, more collectors more sales of stamps. (2). If our family members are properly educated in this subjects, so bequeathal collection could not be sold at throw away prices,
Women involvement will change the demography of Indian philately.
The hobby of stamp collecting in India is more than hundred years old, and it is confined mostly amongst males, but unfortunately females involvement is very negligible. In post independence India, early sixties to eighties, there were hundreds of philatelic societies, in West Bengal alone there were more than 34 philatelic clubs. But none of the clubs ever tried to motivate female in this hobby.
Since 1954 our department of post almost periodically organizing philatelic exhibitions- why probably they don't know themselves. Whether for the sale promotion of their products or to promote some those who will make a position for themselves, both in India as well as overseas, but they will be do nothing for the department. They will always make a plan to involve the department to arginase exhibitions, either state, national or international levels which will serve only their interest. As soon as the Department will announce any programme for exhibition, there will be rat-race among them, who will be the jury, commissioner or hold any portfolios. But if you ask them to go to village or district to organize small exhibitions or workshop, only one answer you will hear from them- no time ( waquath kanha hai). Our department spending money in philately without any positive purpose.
We are now at e-mail age- it is a high time for our department to pay attention to promote sales of philatelic products.
There are two types of stamp buyers- one those who will write letters, their number is decreasing due to e-mail and the second one is the collectors who will never write letters. In fact e-mail is blessing in disguise.A competition is gpoing on amongst the posts office of other countries of the world- how to attrace the collectors- they are issuing inn0ovetative beautility materials, as they know that they will have to render no service to the buyers of these materials at all- because they are not letter writer, they are collectors.
How to promote philately- I have personally experimented in North Bengal, with the help of Mr. John Samuel, PMG Siliguri. When I first visited Sikkim- there were no collectors - I have organized workshop ( not seminar) with school students, teachers and parents and separately with Postal staff ( in future they will visit schools- how they will motivate the students and teachers, parents- what type of questions they may face and what their answers should be) . Because a student cannot be a instant buyer-they cannot open a PD account, unless they are being paid by their parents was successful in my experiment- within three years a philatelic bureau was opened at Siliguri and surprisingly, 70 collectors participated in Stampshow, Kolkata from North Bengal and in Inpex-08 Chennai two were allotted and one awarded.
At the moment female population in India is about 52 cores and out of these huge population if our Department could motivate just 1% of these population the sale proceeds will be a substantial amount.
It is a great lamentation that in this vast country only 10-15 women are known to me who collects stamps and two of them are intentionally famous
.
However, two ladies ( mother) have come out with a positive and pragmatic outlook to promote stamp collecting . One of them is Sangita Deogawanka, wife of Madhukar. At least one of the collectors of India- Madhukar is successful to make his life partner a philatelic partner also. Sangita is having one book “Stamp Collecting” to her credit. She is regular contributors of articles in various magazines. She is a very serious collector of Indian states, postal communication system etc.
There is a proverb charity begins at home-she studied child psychology- she involved her 6 years old daughter in stamp collecting- with odd size and shape of stamps which a child of her age like most.
The other lady is Jeevan Jyoti of Kanpur, now at Simla. She did not squander her adolescent- she got involved in philately from early age and had long association with B.J.Kumar. Acquired knowledge in philatelic journalism, she was the asst. editor of U-Phil Times.
We should encourage our wives and mothers in this hobby for two basic reasons: 1. Philately will be widen
, number of collectors will increase, more collectors more sales of stamps. (2). If our family members are properly educated in this subjects, so bequeathal collection could not be sold at throw away prices,
Women involvement will change the demography of Indian philately.
WOMEN & INDIAN PHILATELY
The hobby of stamp collecting in India is more than hundred years old, and it is confined mostly amongst males, but unfortunately females involvement is very negligible. In post independence India, early sixties to eighties, there were hundreds of philatelic societies, in West Bengal alone there were more than 34 philatelic clubs. But none of the clubs ever tried to motivate female in this hobby.
Since 1954 our department of post almost periodically organizing philatelic exhibitions- why probably they don't know themselves. Whether for the sale promotion of their products or to promote some those who will make a position for themselves, both in India as well as overseas, but they will be do nothing for the department. They will always make a plan to involve the department to arginase exhibitions, either state, national or international levels which will serve only their interest. As soon as the Department will announce any programme for exhibition, there will be rat-race among them, who will be the jury, commissioner or hold any portfolios. But if you ask them to go to village or district to organize small exhibitions or workshop, only one answer you will hear from them- no time ( waquath kanha hai). Our department spending money in philately without any positive purpose.
We are now at e-mail age- it is a high time for our department to pay attention to promote sales of philatelic products.
There are two types of stamp buyers- one those who will write letters, their number is decreasing due to e-mail and the second one is the collectors who will never write letters. In fact e-mail is blessing in disguise.A competition is gpoing on amongst the posts office of other countries of the world- how to attrace the collectors- they are issuing inn0ovetative beautility materials, as they know that they will have to render no service to the buyers of these materials at all- because they are not letter writer, they are collectors.
How to promote philately- I have personally experimented in North Bengal, with the help of Mr. John Samuel, PMG Siliguri. When I first visited Sikkim- there were no collectors - I have organized workshop ( not seminar) with school students, teachers and parents and separately with Postal staff ( in future they will visit schools- how they will motivate the students and teachers, parents- what type of questions they may face and what their answers should be) . Because a student cannot be a instant buyer-they cannot open a PD account, unless they are being paid by their parents was successful in my experiment- within three years a philatelic bureau was opened at Siliguri and surprisingly, 70 collectors participated in Stampshow, Kolkata from North Bengal and in Inpex-08 Chennai two were allotted and one awarded.
At the moment female population in India is about 52 cores and out of these huge population if our Department could motivate just 1% of these population the sale proceeds will be a substantial amount.
It is a great lamentation that in this vast country only 10-15 women are known to me who collects stamps and two of them are intentionally famous
.
However, two ladies ( mother) have come out with a positive and pragmatic outlook to promote stamp collecting . One of them is Sangeeta Deogawanka, wife of Madhukar. At least one of the collectors of India- Madhukar is successful to make his life partner a philatelic partner also. Sangeeta is having one book “Stamp Collecting” to her credit. She is regular contributors of articles in various magazines. She is a very serious collector of Indian states, postal communication system etc.
There is a proverb charity begins at home-she studied child psychology- she involved her 6 years old daughter in stamp collecting- with odd size and shape of stamps which a child of her age like most.
The other lady is Jeevan Jyoti of Kanpur, now at Simla. She did not squander her adolescent- she got involved in philately from early age and had long association with B.J.Kumar. Acquired knowledge in philatelic journalism, she was the asst. editor of U-Phil Times.
We should encourage our wives and mothers in this hobby for two basic reasons: 1. Philately will be widen
, number of collectors will increase, more collectors more sales of stamps. (2). If our family members are properly educated in this subjects, so bequeathal collection could not be sold at throw away prices,
Women involvement will change the demography of Indian philately.
No comments:
Post a Comment