UAE Tulu community gears up for ‘Tuluvere Parba 2012'

Community leaders, presidents and office bearers including leaders and members of various communities of Tulu Nadu who gathered last Friday at Winny's Restaurant, Karama to view the presentation of the forth coming 'Tuluvere Parba 2012' showed their fullest support in making this event an event to be remembered.

Special guest Shridhar, a retired advocate from Bangalore who voluntarily wished to assist Kannadigas in UAE on any legal issues was introduced before the presentation. His daughter Preethi an architect was also present. James Mendonca, President of Mangalore Konkans along with Dayan D'Souza and Alwyn Pinto of Daiji Ranga Mandir, Harish Sherigar President of Devadigara Sangha, Satish Venkataramana, President of Ganigara Sangha, Satish Poojary, President of Karnataka Sangha Sharjah, Bala Salian, Vice President of Mogaveers UAE, Rajendra Pejavar, President of Vishwakarma Seva Samithi, Ravi B. Shettigar, President of Padmashali UAE, Harish Kodi, President of Dakshina Kannada Kodagu Gowda Sangha, Sudhakar Alva of Bunts UAE, Geetha Nayak & Anjana Kamath lady representatives of UAE Amchigele Samaj, Narayana Seva Samithi, Nama Tuluveru Executive Members, Navin Sequeira, Purshottam Salian, Anand Bailoor, Sudhakar Poojary, Shubakar, Noel D'Almeida, Deepak S.P., Dinesh Sanil, Bala Shetty, Ganesh Urwa, D'Souza and many others were present during the meeting. Sundeep Rao, President of Ramakshatriya Sangha, Anand of Kannada Church, M.E. Moolur of Beary's Cultural Forum and many other leaders who were not able to attend because of their busy schedule called and confirmed their fullest support for the programme.

‘Tuluvere Parba 2012’ was briefed clearly by Shodhan with bit by bit of the slide and interestingly it was nice to see so many leaders in the early morning hours of Friday who assembled to discuss this Tulu programme contributing with their precious time. The charity based theme of Nama Tuluvere Parba 2012 is to showcase our heritage, tradition, ethnic food, ethnic folk, ethnic artifacts, ethnic sports and ethnic way of life. Tulu is not pertaining to certain community but is the property of all those who belong to Tulu Nadu irrespective of caste, creed or religion. Hence 'Nama Tuluvere Parba 2012' will be jointly shouldered and presented by all the Tuluva community organizations in UAE who will be supported by the specially arriving various talented teams from Tulu Nadu and neighboring gulf.

Famous Tulu drama of well-known organiser, Kishore D. Shetty's "Kateeldha Appe Ullalthi" comprising of 34 member senior artists, who have presented more than 100 shows, will be exclusively flown from India to present this drama during the concluding part of the day's event. Moreover a special needs children group of Mangalore who are talented in folklore will also be part of the show. There will be many more surprises of the event which will be announced in the later stage including Blood donation mobile campaign unit supporting Dubai Blood Bank.

A committee will be formed in the next meeting and there will be many meetings in the coming days as the preparation has already begun in full swing the updates of which will be continuously announced in the media.