with SK Biswas, my philately mentor 2006 Ever heard of a rare occasion in philatelic history; a man from one country requesting the highest official of another country to issue a stamp on a particular individual and his appeal being made into practice. Meet Surya Kanta Biswas a professional philatelist from Berhampore, District Murshidabad, West Bengal has earned a special place in the philatelic world. It was in response to his appeal to then-President HM Ershad of Bangladesh that a postage stamp on Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore came to be depicted in Bangladesh postage for the first time. It was on May 12, 1990, he wrote a letter to the then President Ershad requesting to bring out a stamp on Gurudev to commemorate the occasion of the 150 th anniversary of Gurudev's Birth Anniversary. He wrote Gurudev should be honoured since one of his poems “ Amar Sonar Bangla ” is Bangladesh’s national anthem. It is a rare coincidence that Rabindranath Tagore’s two poems are the nation...
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