Picture : Mint (Hindustan Times)
As the nation awaits the release of Special Khadi Stamp Of Gandhi during Indipex 2011, a man has silently added one more Gandhi design to his art Portofolio.His name is Sankha Samantha the man behind 250 stamps of India.
Since 1947, the postal department has issued 33 commemorative stamps on Gandhi. Of those 33, Samanta has designed 14, making him the most sought after Gandhi stamp artist
For a man who makes such an art of stamp design, Samanta’s career started by chance. In 1987, when he was a student at the Delhi College of Art, Samanta was forced to visiting Dak Bhawan to audition as a stamp designer. To test the soft-spoken Bengali’s skills, the India Post officers asked him to draw a portrait of Indira Gandhi. They were impressed with the result, and Samanta was appointed an empanelled artist. The first stamp he designed was of Veer Narayan Singh, a sepoy executed in 1857. Since then, Samantha said he’s designed more than 300 stamps, which include portraits of freedom fighters, politicians and industrialists.
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