manipal young and old alike responded enthusiastically at launch of manipal university philately and numismatics club here on sunday while elders were to see huge collections of stamps and coins on display at the s building gen y evinced interest getting started with vice chancellor h vinod bhat a philatelist himself with fairly large stamps on medicine and club officially hoping that the club will encourage people of the region to take philately and numismatics as a hobby vinod bhat it has been my dream for a long time to start this club and today has come the club will promote philately as hobby youngsters he said it should be an the should get together at least once a to talk discuss and exchange stamps this is hobby of kings and is king of hobbies he prabhakar m kamath president dakshina philatelic and numismatics association inaugurated the exhibition had a collection of falkland islands which is a national awards winner m k krishnayya s collections which have won than 15 national awards for flags and two national awards for postal stationary on display krishnayya is a curator and guide of corporation bank heritage museum at nearby temple town on udupi vishvesh son who is the first secretary of the club had his collection of primates hoofed mammals and cynofelidae wild dogs and cats jayaprakash rao s collections were of pre independence india he presented coins of moghul period post and pre independent india he has won national awards in stamps baikady srinivas rao s display had stamps butterfly which won a he had army postal nagendra pai a philatelist who international at brazil in a one frame collection on global warming last year and recent gandhi collection were an attraction ratish udupa a his exhibits children s day daniel monteiro s collection of birds and water fowls which have won 10 international awards and guinness for the most number of bird collection was yet another display the up