Abu Dhabi: Bearys Welfare Forum hosts iftar get-together

Media Release
May 21, 2019

Abu Dhabi: The Bearys Welfare Forum (BWF), a social organization in the UAE respected for its philanthropic and charitable works, organized an ‘Iftar’ get-together at the India Social and Cultural Centre, on Friday, 17th May, 2019, and nearly 600 NRIs from Abu Dhabi, Dubai ,Sharjah and Fujairah besides prominent personalities from all walks and fields of life participated.

Ahmed Wahabe of New Muslim Center, Asif Bhai, Althaf Ahmed, Younus, Saleem and Nayeem Baiji, Faizan Khateb of Sahebaan Abu Dhabi, Fakrudeen Bhat, Alauddin Sir of Indian School, Abdul Khader and Hanif Arimolle of KIC, Ahmed Kabeer from KCF and Oneil of Sundus company and other dignitaries attended the function.

Abdul Rauf, Vice President, BWF compered the program with thought provoking quotes and Quranic verses. The program started with the recitation of the holy Quran by Master Hazem Abdul Aziz.

An informative religious speech and dua was delivered by Saheer Hudavi Chikkamagaluru.

A presentation on BWF aim, goal and achievements was given by Jaleel Gurupur with his super announcements

After breaking of the fast and evening prayers, a short program was held and all the dignitaries were given Ramadan compliments and wishes.

President Mohammed Ali Uchil welcomed the community members and prominent guests and expressed his gratitude for accepting the invitation and for joining them for the Iftar get-together. Mohamed Ali Uchil put forward the charitable causes initiated by BWF, which were successfully conducted in Mangalore, and appealed for generous help from members to conduct these successfully. He also thanked all those who donated for various causes which helped many under-privileged people to live a dignified life in the society. He especially expressed his gratitude to the donors.

He thanked BWF-executive committee members for their hard work, dedication and effort to organize this function and bring in to its complete success and spirit. “It’s an incredible achievement for BWF, which managed to accomplish so many tasks to its utmost goal set, and God willing all of its project will be a complete success.”

Abdulla Madumoole, G Secretary, BWF, put forward the charitable causes initiated by BWF, which were successfully conducted in Mangaluru, especially the mass marriages of 105 poor girls, and appealed for generous help from members to conduct these successfully.

He thanked all those who donated for various causes which helped many under-privileged people to live a dignified life in the society. He highlighted BWF projects like distribution of wheel chairs, and empathized on the BWF pilot project – Shouchalaya, a unique project, through which BWF constructed around 200 toilets in various parts of twin districts. BWF plan to construct another 100 toilets for the poor in the society irrespective of caste and religion in the various parts of the twin districts.

He highlighted BWF projects like distribution of wheel chairs, and empathized on the BWF pilot project – Shouchalaya, a unique project to construct 100 toilets for the poor in the society irrespective of caste and religion in the various parts of the twin districts. He requested donors to support our forth coming office project in Mangalore to coordinate the BWF charity works.

Mr. Ahmed Wahabe also lauded BWF for the community service and selfless work towards the common people and under-privileged and preached about the importance of Ramadan. Hamza Abdul Khader, Vice President, BWF delivered the vote of thanks.

The programme was coordinated by Mohamed Siddik Kaup (Treasurer BWF), Basheer Bajpe, Imran Ahmed and Mohammed Kallapu along with Abdul Majeed A G Abdul Rauf, Hamza Khader and Hameeed Gurupur, Secretary. Nawaj Uchil, Haneef Ullal,  Mujeeb Uchil, Majeed Athoor, Moiniddin Handel, Irfan Ahmed and Basheer Uchil took care of the floor management and managed the event with a professional touch. Siddik Uchil, Rasheed Bijai, and Rasheed V K were instrumental in the success of program.

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Salam Bava
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Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Masha Allah,Good deed BWF.May Allah shower his blessings on BWF leadership and members

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Ram Puniyani
February 13,2020

Forthcoming Census and RSS campaign

Currently massive protests are going on against NPR, NCR and CAA. At the same time we are going to begin the process of decadal census in 2021. Already RSS is active in promoting NPR, NCR and CAA. At the same time RSS wants that Adivasis should register themselves as Hindus rather than ticking the column of ‘Others’. As per their spokesperson in the 2011 census many Adivasis groups ticked that column because of which the population of Hindus came down to by 0.7 percent point to come down to 79.8 %. This has sent signals to this Hindu nationalist organization and is planning to ensures that Adivasis tick the column of Hindus in this census.

As such RSS has a very clever attitude in defining the term Hindu. The first formulation was by Savakakar who said that all those who regard the land east of Indus as their Holy land and Father land are Hindus. This left out Muslims and Christians, and brought all others in the ambit of Hindu fold. From the decade of 1980s due to electoral compulsions they have been trying to articulate that all those who are living in India are Hindus. Murli Manohar Joshi stated that Muslims are Ahmadiya Hindus and Christians are Christi Hindus. Recently there was a controversy when they restated that Sikhs are not a separate religion but are a sect of Hinduism. Many Sikh organizations stood up to say that Sikhism is a religion by itself and recalled the book of Kahan Singh Nabha, “Hum Hindu Nahin”

As far as Adivasis are concerned in contrast to what is being planned by Hindu nationalist RSS, many Adivasis groups have been meeting from last couple of years to demand just the contrary. As per them there should be a column where they can tick their identity of Adivasis.  There are active campaigns among Adivasis groups to uphold their Adivasi identity in Census. As per them in the first census which was conducted in Independent India, the column, Aborigines, was there, which was later removed forcing them to club themselves with other religions.

After 1951 in addition to Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jain and Buddha, the column ‘others’ was also there which was removed in 2011. Even during British period if you look at the censuses of the British era (from 1871 to 1931); there was provision for tribes to choose Aborigine as an option. There are nearly 83 religious practices being followed by Adivasis. Few major of these are Sarna, Gondi, Punem, Adi, and Koya. What they share in common is that they are animists, worship nature and spirit of ancestors; do not have priestly class or Holy Scriptures and Gods and Goddesses characteristic of the broad Hindu pantheon.

RSS as per its political agenda of Hindu Nation regards them as Vanvasi. They pontificate that they have been part of Hindu society who were driven away to forests to escape the forcible conversion being done by the Muslim invaders. This concoction is contrary to the interpretations based on the studies from population genetics. The Hindu nationalist argues that Aryans have been the original inhabitants of the country from where they spread to other parts of the World. The book by Tony Joseph, ‘Early Indians’ tells us that away from the race theory, we are all mixed up. The first inhabitants in our land were the ones who emigrated from South Asia over Sixty thousand years ago.

The Indo-Aryans came here nearly three thousand years ago and they pushed the aborigines to the forests and hills and that’s what constitutes the Adivasi community of India.

Hindu Nationalists like all the nationalists who construct their nationalism around their religion claim to be the most original inhabitants of the land, and their interpretations of past are molded according to that. RSS right from beginning has not been using the word Adivasi, it calls them Vanvasi. As per its agenda it wants them to be part of Hindu fold, despite Adivasis themselves saying that they are not Hindus, they have beliefs and practices which are far away from Hinduism in whatever form.

To enhance its political reach from the decades of 1980s in particular its work in Adivasis areas has been intensified. While ‘Vanvasis Kalyan Ashram’, part of RSS Combine which was formed much earlier, it was in the decades of 1980s that their work was jacked up by sending more Pracharaks in Adivasi areas. We see that in Gujarat, Dangs and nearby area, Swami Aseemanand, in MP, centered around Jhabua-the followers of Asaram Bapu and in Orissa Swami Laxmananad stationed them. They saw Christian missionaries working in the field of education and health as an obstacle to Hinduization of Adivasis. Their propaganda against Christian missionaries led to the ghastly murder of Pastor Graham Stains. It was this propaganda which led to anti Christian violence in various forms, the most horrific being the Kandhamal violence of 2008.

In order to culturally co-opt them into the fold of Hinduism they began series of religious congregations, Kumbhs. Shabri Kumbh in Dangs and many other Adivasis predominant areas created an atmosphere of fear, Adivasis were asked to be part of it, saffron flags were distributed and they were made to put it in their houses. Two religious icons were popularized in these areas, one was Shabri and other was Hanuman. To cap it all, Ekal Vidyalayas, started spreading RSS’s interpretation of history in these areas. The other angle of the whole thing is that Adivasis are living in the areas rich in minerals, which the BJP supporter Corporate World wants to take over.

World over aborigines have similar pattern. They are animists and what they practice is a culture as such. Many have converted to other religions out of their choice for sure, but finally in these matters what is important is the self perception. Hemant Soren the Chief Minister of Jharkhand pointed out that “Adivasis are not Hindus. ”Keeping that in mind; the column of Aborigines needs to find its place in our census forms.

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April 12,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 12: A 10-month-old baby who tested COVID-19 positive on March 27 completed treatment and discharged from hospital on Saturday.

He was the youngest positive case in Karnataka, from Sajipanadu village in Bantwal taluk.

The child had been with his mother to a relative's house at Monetepadau village, situated on the Karnataka-Kerala border in the first week of March.

A few days later the child developed an acute respiratory illness and tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.

Treating the breastfeeding child was challenging for doctors as he had to be isolated. A team of doctors from Wenlock Hospital took up this challenge and successfully cured the baby.

Test reports on his mother and grandmother too have returned negative. They too had been under quarantine and were discharged with the baby.

Another positive development was that no COVID-19 case has been reported from the child's village.  

The entire Sajipanadu village was completely sealed after the child tested positive and the district had provided all the necessary supplies to the villagers.

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February 16,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 16: The Central Crime Branch has recovered blank firearms from Saddaguntepalya Police Station limits.

As of now, two persons have been arrested in this regard. They have been identified as Mohd Junaid and Mohd Tabrez. The officials have recovered 28 blank firearms and 76 blank bullets.

"The two accused -- without having any license -- were in possession of these huge number of weapons," Sandeep Patil, Joint CP, Crime, told media.

As per the preliminary investigation, there has been no record of such cases in Bengaluru. "But we are verifying if other states have any (such) case," added the Joint CP

According to investigations, it was noted that the weapons were purchased from Mumbai at an estimated cost of Rs 1 lakh per weapon.

Further investigation is currently underway.

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