The First Asian International Stamp Exhibition named ASIANA-77 was be held from October 19 to 23, 1977. The exhibition has been organised by the Philatelic Congress of India, an apex federated body of all the Philatelic Societies and clubs in India, with the active participating and assistance of the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department and also the Government of Karnataka. The exhibition will be exclusively for the Asian and Australasian countries and under the patronage of the Inter-Asia Philatelic Federation (FIAP) which is the Asian chapter of the Federation Internationale de Philatelic (FIP).
The Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department brought out two special postage stamps on the occasion of the First Asian International Stamp Exhibition (ASIANA-77). The stamp in Re.1 denomination depicts a pair of a famed Red Scinde Dawks of 1852 (the first Stamp in asia). The stamp in Rs. 3/- denomination shows foreign mail arriving at the Ballard Pier in Bombay in 1927. It is adapted from a photograph appearing in the Annual Report of Indian Posts & telegraphs Department for the year 1926-27.
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