Index Home It was Friday on 1st of May 1840, when first postage stamp was born. It was for use five days later, next Wednesday on 6th of May. Credit for this stamp goes to Sir Rowland Hill, initially a teacher by profession, but better known for invention of first postage stamp and postal reforms. I… Continue reading The first postage stamp was born on 1st May 1840
Month: April 2025
Ensuring basic health needs: A concept with many names
Index Home Health is dear to all, and we all strive to be in pink of our health all the time. Principles of health maintenance are simple, though repetitive actions. While it is a readily acceptable concept that basic health needs should be available to all, globally we have struggled with its execution. There are quite… Continue reading Ensuring basic health needs: A concept with many names
Gut and Liver: how did we get to know them well
Food is essential for life. A popular view, till 17th century was that our body absorbs food, that is directly converted by Liver into blood. While this view was later refuted (as blood is formed inside our bones), yet food does provide all the essential and required ingredients. Better nutrition, indeed is better health, and… Continue reading Gut and Liver: how did we get to know them well
Eye of Horus and ocular symbolism
Index Home Recently I had the pleasure of collective viewing of one of my stamp albums with a co-philatelist. He stopped at a first day cover, that had a peculiar sketch. Eye of Horus it is, he exclaimed. I was clueless, but he went on with the story of Horus, with an assertion that “Rx” is… Continue reading Eye of Horus and ocular symbolism
Alzheimer, Parkinson and Multiple Sclerosis: As nerves whither away
Index Home In this blog we feature three diseases of the nerves – Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Multiple sclerosis and their related philately. In all the three, nerve cells in our brain or spinal cord get affected. Individuals and their families need to relentlessly cope up with slow but progressive failure of the nerves. While the similarity… Continue reading Alzheimer, Parkinson and Multiple Sclerosis: As nerves whither away