14-11-2016: Children’s Day Painting Picnic A commemorative postage stamp

Picnic, tours, trips and excursions are part and parcel of our life. They provide us complete opportunities to study the book of Nature as Shakespeare says. “We find sermons in stones, tongues, in trees books in running brooks”. “Picnic” conjures up a picture of freedom from our daily routine, from the chaos of urban life and from the confines of the concrete jungle. It provides an imagery of fun with family and friends, children playing, laughing, chasing a butterfly and their parents soaking up the atmosphere of happiness, however transient. Humankind has evolved in the lap of nature and the urge to reconnect with the soonthing greenery is only natural. Descriptions of picnics show that the idea of meal that was jointly contributed and was enjoyed out-of-doors was essential to a picnic from the early 19th century. The Department of Posts organized a nation-wide competition inviting entries for designing the Commemorative Postage Stamps, Miniature sheet, First Day Cover and Brochure on the theme “Picnic”.