Postage stamp to commemorate the 750th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta Desikan

(Vice President)

WHAT

The Vice President of India, Shri. M. Venkaiah Naidu released a postage stamp to commemorate the 750th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta Desikan.

Indian postal department unveiled a stamp to commemorate the great philosopher’s life and highly valued works.

 

SRI VEDANTA DESIKAN

• Sri Vedanta Desikan is one of the most prominent preceptors in the Srivaishnava tradition.
• He had authored brilliant poems, prose, drama, epics, commentaries, scientific texts and philosophical treatises in Sanskrit, Tamil, Prakrit and Manipravalam.
• He was a multi-faceted personality– a scientist, a logician, a mathematician, a literary genius, a linguist, a military strategist and much more.
• The essential features of Sri Vedant Desikan’s philosophy was the aspect of inclusion. Anyone, irrespective of caste and creed could join the Sri Vaishnava fold.

 

INDIAN POSTAL DEPARTMENT

The Department of Posts (DoP), trading as India Post, is a government-operated postal system in India, which is part of the Ministry of Communications of the Government of India. Generally called “the post office” in India, it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world.

It touches the lives of Indian citizens in many ways: delivering mails, accepting deposits under Small Savings Schemes, providing life insurance cover under Postal Life Insurance (PLI) and Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) and providing retail services like bill collection, sale of forms, etc. The DoP also acts as an agent for Government of India in discharging other services for citizens such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) wage disbursement and old age pension payments. With 1, 55,015 Post Offices, the DoP has the most widely distributed postal network in the world.

 

Source: PIB

 

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