May 6, 2009

Stamps on Sri Sri Ravi Shanker, a hoax story ???

Postal department of Netherlands released four postage stamps to honour Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of Art of Living. Two of the stamps carry photographs of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The third stamp has a photograph of Vishalakshi Mantap, the meditation hall at Art of Living’s international centre in Bangalore. The fourth stamp is dedicated to the work done by the Art of Living for the education of the under-privileged.

(The above story is said to be a hoax (read comments) as I was unable to find any news of the same in the TNT website.

Any other comments welcome.

2 comments:

Kavitha Thirumurugan said...

This is extremely bogus and fradulent. These stamps are created by AOL and only announced to the Indian Media. No Dutch government official is involved in this.

Nowhere does TNT post mention that the stamps were created for Ravishankar:
http://www.tntpost.com/news/allpressreleases/index.asp

Also you can order customized Stamps from TNT featuring any photograph you choose. They will create some 10 stamps of 44 cents and give it to you. Anyone dutch citizen with less than 10 euros can do that. No wonder AOL has taken this route to get their cheap publicity.
How to get a postal stamp with your photo on it

http://tntpost.nl/voorthuis/

In Netherlands, anybody can put his or her face (or even the photograph of his home, or cat, or dog) on a stamp. This is a strategy to make this business more exciting; what one has to do is to upload (at tntpost.nl) one's photograph, and pay little extra. The postage stamps with your design are usually sent in just two-three days, the only binding is – the shipping address must be located in the Netherlands.

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