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Sunday, April 13, 2014

A Philatelic Tribute to Indian Womanhood


Women by the side of their reputed spouse, who were also Indian social workers and politicians, form the other group of Indian women, who helped to better the future of Indian women. India Post did issue some famous and some unknown couples on the postage stamps. The first and foremost of these is Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi. In his biography “My experiments with Truth”, Mahatma Gandhi has clearly and openly written how he has behaved with his wife in order to force her to wash the latrines and other petty small works. There might be hardly any other Indian lady or wife of a dignitary who has suffered often as she was a bold personality.
...... Read complete article in ITS SN No.65

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