FOR THE LOVE OF STAMPS

Dinesh Kanabar's enviable collection is not just about stamps, it's a slice of history

- SMITA TRIPATHI

The very first: independent stamp of India was a T aeroplane, the second was a portrait of Gandhi that was printed in Switzerland but couldn't be used in India, because the gum of the stamp wouldn't stick in India's humid climate. Dinesh Kanabar, one of the country's leading international tax experts, is an encyclopaedia on Indian stamps with an enviable collection of pre-Independence stamps and archival material.