TraWorld Magazine 3rd Edition

This joint issue postage stamp of India and Serbia is very interesting.
Nikola Tesla was perhaps the greatest scientific person from Serbia.
His innovations in the field of electric engineering are unparalleled.
He mostly lived and worked in the USA. In the 1890s, he invented
Radio remote control device and also conducted successful
demonstrations of wireless transmission of electricity. This innovation
is considered to be the base for today’s wireless communication.
The great Indian thinker-philosopher Swami Vivekananda was the
first Indian person who introduced Hindu philosophy to the West,
especially to the American people in 1893. He wrote many books on
Hindu Philosophy and was considered as one of the most influential
speakers of his time.
Now the obvious question that you might have is “So, what’s the
connection between them? ...and why are they on the joint issue
stamp?”
It so happened that during his USA visit, Swami Vivekananda had
expressed an interest in Tesla’s innovations and thought that Indian
Vedānta Philosophy could be expressed scientifically with some of
Tesla’s theories. After meeting Swamiji, Tesla himself got highly
interested in the similarities between the Sāmkhya theory of “Matter
and Energy”, and the modern physics. They met in New York in 1895.
This stamp of 2018 commemorates this historic, cultural and scientific
interaction.