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Dear Fellow Philatelists, Recently I came across a book "One Page One Theme" by Shri Praful K.Thakker. The book discussed about presenting a philetelic theme in a single page. There were more than hundred illustrations on differnt interesting theme. Just like Cricket, Philately has undergone a major change. From 5 day test series, to one day international to T20, Cricket match became short and intense. Similarly from classical collection of " Maximum counties-Maximum stamps, the change has been drastic to few counties and limited Thematic subjects. In Philatelic Exibitions apart from 5 frame exibit, 3 frame and 1 frame exibits are also acceptable. I have tried to make an One Page exibit on TATA. As far as I know, TATA is the only industrial house of having the honour of maximum number of Stamps issued by India Post. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome. Best regards Zero

Dear friends, Recently I came across a news item saying India will now export milk products to New Zealand, the global dairy capital ( “Kurien’s Kiwi dream gets real …..” http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/Kuriens-Kiwi-dream-gets-real-/articleshow/4698884.cms) Indeed India has come a long way. I still remember those days, as a young boy standing in a long queue with empty bottles in a bag waiting eagerly at the milk booth for the milk van. Those days Amul butter and powdered milk for babies were only known milk product for the masses. Flavoured milk, cheese and milk chocolate bar (Popularly known as Cadbury), Ice-cream were a rare treat. Ice-cream party and Ice-cream making used to be a seasonal summer family event. Over the years, glass bottles got replaced with plastic pouches and also availability of milk improved drastically. Now queue for milk is a past story. Today one can choose from many variants of milk and buy any time from many places. Thanks to Amul, the number of ...