Gandhi and Serbia

A first day cover from Serbia 🇷🇸  issued for the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi 

Serbia issued a commomerating postage stamp and a sheetlet on Mahatma Gandhi on 28th February 2019.In 2018 Serbia issued a joint stamp with India.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the leader of the Indian independence movement. With his unusual, yet powerful political instruments of Satyagraha and non-violent protest, Mahatma Gandhi inspired political leaders and human rights and freedom movements all over the world. 

Motif on the stamp: a portrait of Gandhi with symbolic display of the lotus flower in the background.

Motif on the vignette: charkha – a wheel for weaving cotton, a symbol of the passive resistance in India.

Artistic realization: MA Boban Savić, painter .

Thanks Ana for this beautiful FDC !