.: Sep 8, 2009

Sri Sathya Sai Water Supply Project

On 23rd November 1999, the Department of Posts, Government of India, released a postage stamp and a postal cover in recognition of the pioneering service rendered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in addressing the problem of providing safe drinking water to the rural masses.

Samanta Chandra Sekhar

The Minister of State for Communications Shri Tapan Sikdar will release a special commemorative postage stamp on Samanta Chandra Sekhar, noted astronomer, at a function in Bhubaneswar on June 11, 2001. Issued by the Department of Posts (DoP), the stamp is in the denomination of Rs.3/-.

Samanta Chandra Sekhar (1835-1904) is a prominent name in traditional Indian Astronomy, who has been placed by some scholars at par with the great fours of Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta and Bhaskracharya.

Chandra Sekhar developed deep insight into astronomy through self education.

He started recording his observations and making formulations of the ideas at the age of twenty three and started putting them in the form of a treatise some three years later. The complete script of Siddhanta Darpana, his treatise, was ready by 1869, when he was thirty four. However, the work was checked and refined for twenty three years more, till it was declared by the author to be closed in 1892.

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