POSTCARD N.186 - INDIA.

Postcard sent on the 26th June; received on the 7th August 2025.

Postcard image: Vidhana Soudha

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Ravi sent me this great postcard from India. Bohoma Sthuthi, my friend.

Construction of the  Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore was started in 1951 and completed in 1956. three years later in 1959, it was inaugurated as the seat of the Parliament for the State of  Karnataka, one of the 28 States and 8 territories that form the Repiblic of india.

 The postcard  itself is a source of knowledge for those like me who had never heard about this important building since if its image is scanned through a smarthphone augmented reality app, several information menus become available.

I could thus learn that no less than 5000 unskilled convicts worked on its construction, all of them having been pardoned after the completion of the works and that the intricated wood and stone work necessitated the work of 1500 chiselers. 

Close to the Vidhana Soudha building, which itself hosts a Post Office,  there is another  building where the Philatelic Bureau of Baengalore is located.

Judging from the very nice pictorial postmark, which is illustrated with the Soudha Building, Ravi sent the postmark through this facility.

The 25 Rupee octogonal stamp is illustrated with what looks like a reproduction of a photograph of Gandhi and his wife, Kasturba, is part of a six octogonal stamps set, issued on 02OCT2019, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the father of  independent India.