Who am I?

My name is Premnath S. Kudva, and I am from Mangalore, India. I am married to Suchitra and we have two daughters, Sneha who is ten and a half and Kavya who is four and a half.

My interests include stamp, coin and currency note collecting. In stamps I collect mint stamps, mostly directly from the postal administration of the country I am interested in. 

Besides mint stamps I also buy Year Books and Year Sets of a few selected countries like New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. I have hosted several posts on some of the stamps in my collection, to see them check my stamp collection here at LJ.

I collect proof coins of the US from the US mint. At ebay I have been able to buy buy quite a few commemorative proof coins for my collection. I also buy a few selected proof coins issued by the India Government Mint.

I am also very much interested in reading. I used to read a lot of fiction, some of the authors being Jeffery Archer, Frederick Forsythe, Sydney Sheldon, and John Grisham. During my school and college days I have read a lot of Enid Blyton (Secret Seven, Famous Five et al), Arthur Hailey, and James Hadley Chase. After a brief break of a few years I have restarted my reading habit since 2004.

I still read a lot of magazines and books, though I have reduced reading fiction due to paucity of time. I have a large collection of books. So much so that when we built our house in 2001, I had a library room incorporated into it. 

I have a nice collection of Indian currency notes, most of them in UNC condition. Several of them I got at my bank and friends at face value, others which are not circulating I got through eBay and Baazee (now eBay.co.in) auctions and once at a stamp exhibition here in Mangalore.

I collect scale model cars, and would love to have a model train layout sometime in the future. I have a little interest in astronomy and look at the skies once in a while. I can tell some of the constellations though not the stars. I am deeply interested in space exploration, and manned space travel. And hence check everything that is available on those topics. Recently I have started editing at the Wikipedia.

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