13th April 2026: LATEST NEWS

 

  • Those members whose 2026 subscriptions have not been received have had their contact details removed from the current membership data and so they will no longer have access to the ISC Website or the ISC WhatsApp Group.


  • India Post issue no. 238 has been distributed to ISC members and the Editor, Deepak Jaiswal, is working on issue 239. Current ISC members may download all issues of India Post from the ISC Website.


  • Volume 2 of Series 3 of the ISC Handbook, “The Sacred Cow Issues of Bundi”, a revision of the late Ray Benns’ Handbook by John Warren, is now available from Amazon Print-on-Demand (ISBN 979-8249488529); it costs £19.99 in the UK. Arrangements are being made for copies to be available to members in India. This is a major work, of 166 pages in full colour; it contains a massive amount of information that would essential for anyone who has even the remotest interest in Bundi philately.


  • Following the ‘open’ Zoom meeting on Saturday the 24th of January, the ISC Program Secretary, Sandeep Jaiswal, further meetings on Saturday the 21st of February (attended by 21 members) and on Saturday the 14th of March, (attended by 29 members). The next meeting has been scheduled for 15.00 hours BST on Saturday the 25th of April.


  • The date and times of the ISC events at BOSTON 2026 World Expo, to be held from the 23rd to the 30th of May 2026 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, have been changed. The ISC events will now be on Monday the 25th of May, with a display meeting at 3-5pm, presentations by members at their respective frames from 5pm to 6pm and a dinner at a local Indian Restaurant at 7-9pm


  • ISC members are encouraged to exhibit at the upcoming 2026 NAPEX (a World Series of Philately show) taking place in McLean, Virginia, US from August the 28th to the 30th. Members can apply to exhibit by visiting their website at http://www.napex.org. There are ISC events on Friday August the 28th, including presentations at exhibit frames at 4pm and a dinner at a nearby Indian Restaurant at 7pm. Additional information may be obtained by contacting John Warren at jw-kbw@earthlink .net or Sandeep Jaiswal at sj722@aol.com.


  • ISC members Carol Edholm and Vivek Chopra will be hosting an ISC Convention at PIPEX 2028, to be held in Oregon, US, from the 5th to the 7th of May 2028.


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