Nehru-era stamps showed past glory, vision of modern India
India’s pre-eminent freedom fighter and first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has not featured on any stamp issued in the 75th year of Independence. In fact, over the past 25 years, after the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government effectively shunted Nehru out of the philatelic space, he has featured on only three key postage stamps and was mentioned in the information brochures of a