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Derived from Urdu, meaning displeased Majā (மஜா) Excitement or fun Derived from the Urdu word "Maza" meaning "enthusiasm" ōsi (ஓஸி) Free-of-cost From English. During the East India Company rule, letters posted on behalf of the East India Company did not bear postage stamps, but had the words 'On Company's Service' or 'OC' written ...
Jai Hind ( Hindi: जय् हिन्द्, IPA: [dʒəj ɦɪnd]) is a salutation and slogan that originally meant "Victory to Hindustan ", [ 1] and in contemporary colloquial usage often means "Long live India" [ 2] or "Salute to India". Coined by Champakaraman Pillai [ 3][ 4] and used during India's independence movement from British rule ...
My Stamp [6]: 'My Stamp' is the brand name for personalized sheets of postage stamps of India Post. The personalization is achieved by printing a thumb nail image of the individual photograph and logos of institutions, or images of artwork, heritage buildings, famous tourist places, historical cities, wildlife, other animals and birds etc., on ...
Ramaswamy Krishnamurthy (9 September 1899 – 5 December 1954), better known by his pen name Kalki, was an Indian writer, journalist, poet, critic and Indian independence activist who wrote in Tamil. He chose the pen-name "Kalki", the future incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu. [ 1] He founded a magazine, which was also named Kalki, with T ...
Patronymic. A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic ), [ 1][ 2] or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic .
3. Denomination. 4. Country name. A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail). Then the stamp is affixed to the face or address-side of any item of mail —an envelope or other ...
A life-size portrait of Thevar was installed in the Tamil Nadu assembly in 1980. In 1984, after the bifurcation of the Ramnad District the 'Pasumpon Muthuramalingam District' was created. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] On 1 October 2002 the life-size statue of Thevar was unveiled in the Parliament House by the then President of India , A.P.J. Abdul Kalam .
A postage stamp to commemorate Venkayya and the first flag was issued in 2009. [2] The Vijayawada station of All India Radio was named after him in 2014. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2012, his name was proposed for a posthumous Bharat Ratna though there has been no response from the central government on the proposal.