Empowering people with a disability
Index Home Valentin Hauy (1745-1822), a linguist and an interpreter in the Royal court, established world's first school for the blind, in Paris. This was in 1785, when families either kept…
Coming out of the disability closet
Index Home It took global community, more than thirty-five years just to come out of their disability closet. Thirty-five years is a gross understatement, as we shift our start-line to 1945,…
A mirror of the past and our wall of shame
Index Home Postage stamps are a mirror of our past. Often, less than a square inch of space, sums up prevalent societal, political, and behavioural norms. Our past perceptions, as well…
Red Cross in a peace time role
Index Home While Red Cross was borne out of war, its National societies are engaged in various peace time health actions. These actions include first-aid, disaster relief, blood banking and a…
Hundred years of international committee of Red Cross (1863-1963)
Index Home This is fourth in the series of Red-Cross philately blogs. Here we focus on Red Cross stamps from 1963, a year when International committee of Red Cross (ICRC) turned…
Growth of National Societies and Red Cross movement
Index Home Red Cross Movement started in 1863, and the very next year invited delegates from 12 nations had their first conference in Geneva. The founding members agreed that different countries,…
Red Cross philately and the two world wars
Index Home Postage stamps and Red Cross share a close relationship. As early as 1870s, postal administrations in France, Germany and Switzerland exempted postage on letters posted by Red Cross organisations…
Origin of the Red Cross movement
Index Home Nineteenth century Europe was a war theatre. These conflicts started with Napoleonic wars (1803-1815), and went on with revolution and conflicts of Italian and Prussian unification (1848-1866). Weapons, industries,…
Medical services in the sky
Index Home During First World War we began to use airplanes, both as a weapon and as a medical service. In 1917, a British plane evacuated a solder with a broken…
How to make our roads healthy and safe ?
Index Home About 1.3 million humans die, and another 50 million suffer injuries in road accidents every year. These numbers have remained almost unchanged in the last twenty years. Most deaths…