PM to release special stamps on 12 unsung 'Rockstars of AYUSH'

The stamps on 12 modern masters in the field of traditional Indian systems of medicine and yoga will be released by the Prime Minister at an event at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. The idea was to select 'Rockstars of AYUSH' who were active in their respective disciplines from 1850 onwards.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release on Friday commemorative stamps on 12 modern masters in the field of traditional Indian systems of medicine and yoga to celebrate their unsung legacy, officials said on Thursday.

The stamps will be released by the Prime Minister at an event at Vigyan Bhawan here, said officials from the Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Ministry.

The 12 modern AYUSH masters include Dinshaw Mehta, who was a close confidant of and personal physician to Mahatma Gandhi; Hakim Mohammad Abdul Aziz Lakhnawi, who established a medical school in Lucknow in 1902; Swami Kuvalayananda, who made Yoga more acceptable to the modern world; and Hakim Mohammad Kabiruddin, one of the most prolific writers and a great academician of Unani medicine in the 20th century, they said.

"The idea was to select 'Rockstars of AYUSH' who were active in their respective disciplines from 1850 onwards," a senior AYUSH Ministry official told media.