The membership
of the Philatelic Journalists’ Forum is a special privilege bestowed upon the
philatelists who work for the betterment of Philately and Philatelic
environment through their pen & keyboard. These are special people who love
the hobby and are happy to share their knowledge & experience. They are not
mean in their intentions and believe in the universality of the knowledge and
enjoyment of the hobby called Philately. They are always there to answer the
calls, suggest the ways and solve the issues. Knowledge with them is a way to
help fellow philatelists, a way to expand the horizon of the hobby, a medium to
spread the friendships and fellowships & a treasure which increases with
every bit given away.
Membership of
the Philatelists’ Forum is offered by Invitation only. Eligible Philatelic
Journalists are selected by a committee and are invited to become a member of
this forum. The eligibility criteria include their contribution to the
philatelic journalism, their activeness, their subjectivity, their efforts to
explore, and their overall standing as a philatelist of repute.
For the
moment the “Roll of Members” of the Philatelic Journalists’ Forum includes the
following. The Roll of Membership is inscribed in an alphabetic manner and the
sequence of the names does not express any superiority over the names
succeeding in the list.
- Abhai Mishra - Dehradun ( Uttarakhand )
- Ajay Kumar Mittal - New Delhi
- Ajit Kumar Dash - Bhubaneshwar ( Orissa )
- Anil Dhir - Bhubaneshwar ( Orissa)
- Anil Kumar Pujara - Patna ( Bihar )
- Anurag Vajpeyi - Jaipur ( Rajasthan )
- Ashok Kumar Bayanwala - Ahmedabad ( Gujarat )
- Bibhudatta Mishra - Bhubaneshwar (Orissa)
- Dinesh Chandra Sharma - Lucknow ( Uttar Pradesh )
- Col (Dr.) Jayant Dutta - Pune ( Maharashta )
- Dr. Anjali Dutta - Pune ( Maharashtra )
- Dr. Avinash B. Jagtap - Binningen ( Switzerland )
- Deepak Modi - Jalna ( Maharashtra)
- Ilyas Patel - Ahmeabad ( Gujarat )
- Jeevan Jyoti - Kullu ( Himachal Pradesh )
- K. Ramarathnam - Chennai ( Tamil Nadu )
- Madan Middha - Gwalior ( Madhya Pradesh )
- Madhukar Jhingan - New Delhi
- Mainak Kathiara - Ahmedabad ( Gujarat )
- Mansoor B. - Mangalore ( Karnataka )
- Naresh Agarwal - Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)
- Pradeep Kumar Mallik - Patna ( Bihar )
- Pradip Mohanty - Cuttack (Orissa)
- Praful Thakkar - Ahmedabad ( Gujarat )
- Prashant Pandya - Vadodara ( Gujarat )
- Prof. V.K. Gupta - New Delhi
- Rajesh Paharia - Jaipur (Rajasthan)
- Rakesh Walia - Chandigarh
- Sahdeva Sahoo - Bhubaneshwar ( Orissa )
- Savita Jhingan - New Delhi
- Sekhar Chakrabarti - Kolkata ( West Bengal )
- Sudhir Jain - Satna ( M.P. )
- Suraj Jaitly - Ludhiana ( Punjab )
- Vijay Seth - New Delhi
- Yogesh Kumar - Bareilly ( Uttar Pradesh )
